[GALLERY] Moses's Artwork

[Moses]

I've decided to start a artwork thread since I'm gonna be churning out models I can use in a portfolio.

Shadow Armor Megaman from Megaman X6

http://www.deviantart.com/download/86749841/Megaman_X6_Shadow_Armor_by_Chief_01.jpg

idk how long this took me but it's fully rigged and unwrapped

3288 polies.

Static Cloud Grenade from my own head:lol:

http://www.deviantart.com/download/79669711/SCG___Static_Cloud_Grenade_by_Chief_01.jpg

Go here (http://chief-01.deviantart.com/art/SCG-Static-Cloud-Grenade-79669711) for a description, there's too much to explain.

Mithrodin from the designs of Kit Rae

http://www.deviantart.com/download/60703339/Mithrodin_without_texture_by_Chief_01.png

This is a sword that just caught my eye as soon as I saw it and I just had to model it.

1817 polies

Wing Gundam from Gundam Wing

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/2303/winggundamlegac0.jpg

This is a model I've made several times but this time i'm alot better than I was before my last attempt. I'm going to unwrap, rig, and normal map it and try to make a diffuse and specular for it. The OLDEST one is here (http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8756/forwardflightxn7.jpg) . I'm embarrassed to even put it up XD
polies atm: 2570

[ExAm]

Pretty nice stuff you've got there.

[ICEE]

Whats the tricount on that grenade? its beautiful

[Hunter]

http://www.modacity.net/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Moses]

139094 polies on the grenade. i was gonna bake the details into a normal map but i never got around to finishing them. the buttons and switches also need to be scaled up and spread across the surface of the grenade more evenly cause they're quite insanely small.

[Bastinka]

I like the grenade canister thing, looks very nice.

[nick3d]

i like that smoke grenade thing i read the description, sounds awesome

[Moses]

Well the render finished overnight XD. http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6355/winggundamwa2.jpg
That's all i'm doing for one day, the torso and wings.

3946 Polies

[Kalub]

DO NOT LET TEEK in this thread.



Thank you. :)

[Moses]

Sorry it's taken so long for an update. I've been trying to find a way to make everything so it wont clip when it all moves. such as when the hand goes into the wrist. it's quite hard cause i'm also trying to lower the polycount of the whole thing (gundam, buster rifle, beam saber, and shield) to 8000 or less when it's done.

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/9581/winggundamkj8.jpg
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1780/winggundamwirevy8.jpg

Polies:

Gundam - 6748
Saber - 252

[ICEE]

Your mesh is so tidy and orderly, I can't wait to see it finished. also, I love that you model even the inside mechanics and such. + rep if it will let me

[Donut]

im curious as to what to triangle count is on those models, since poly count can be misleading.

[Moses]

When i say poly i ALWAYS mean triangle

[Kalub]

>_>

[JunkfoodMan]

When i say poly i ALWAYS mean triangle
Haha I always do that =D

[Moses]

I'm taking a little break from the gundam to work on some fp halo 3 masterchief arms for sigma mapping team. ironclad said they needed someone to do it so i decided to help out. so far this has taken 2 days and most of it was done in one. i just need to make the hands now.

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3323/armslu1.jpg
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6003/armswireqv2.jpg

Tris: 1800
each arm: 900

[ICEE]

beautiful arms moses

[Anton]

Looks Great:)

[Malloy]

those arms pwn. better than some Halo 3 fp arms ive been asked to Unwrap :\

[k4is3rxkh40s]

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/9581/winggundamkj8.jpg


It may just be the angle its shot at but it seems like the chest area needs to be brought out more, there's something not quite right about it yet I can't put my finger on it :\

[Moses]

well I've been asked to make a custom hand plate for the armor. we've decided on calling it the vanguard type (all Halo 3 armor permutations have names :-P )

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/2268/armswiredg1.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/2070/armsfx1.jpg

1445 triangles per arm
2890 triangles total

also k4is3rxkh40s, I've fixed it a little while ago. it was that the chest was a bit little too wide and needed to be pulled out a bit.

[ICEE]

Custom hand plates ftw

[Malloy]

they look a tad 'small', the origional handplate was rather chunky and made the Chief look butch, these however dont have that butch feeling

[Moses]

well i cant make em much bigger without it interfering with animations. and if i make the hand bigger it'll probably clip the armor when it bends using the stock halo animations. so I'm going on the safe side. I'm not going through all halo 1's animations to make sure it doesn't clip either XD.

Edit: the hands plates aren't "Bigger", just thicker. i mean, they do go over the forearm but that again would interfere with animations.
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6486/h3snhandplateqw3.jpg

[Malloy]

:( ok,

after you've tested them and everything make em butch.

[Moses]

lol, ok

[DaneO'Roo]

hand plates don't match the rest of the armour.

[ICEE]

Its meant to be like an armor variant in h3.

[Invader Veex]

Soo...what purpose does the custom hand plate have? Thiin metal, a right of thick and thin again makes no sense to me. And I agree with Dano. Doesn't even fit in with the arms :shake:

Other than those and, the arms and every thing is <3

[Malloy]

hand plates didnt change in the origional armour perms.

make an interesting Spartan helmet, chest and shoulderpad kit would be more fitting

[ICEE]

Soo...what purpose does the custom hand plate have? Thiin metal, a right of thick and thin again makes no sense to me. And I agree with Dano. Doesn't even fit in with the arms :shake:

Other than those and, the arms and every thing is <3

Just so it is different. Hand plates in general have no real purpose, its just to set it apart from the original arms.

[Moses]

look, it's not my design. donut came up with the general look of it and i changed it a little. this is what he thought up.

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/1430/platewm4.jpg

if you wanna talk to someone about then talk to donut. i'm just making it how they want it. if he wants me to change it to look like halo 3 handplates then i'll do it but it's up to him

[Donut]

yeah thats my design. i wasnt going for anything with an actual function. i was just going for looks.

[DaneO'Roo]

what is it?

[Moses]

It's donuts original handplate design. he put it together really quickly i presume from splines and i changed it into what it looks like on the arms.

[Malloy]

why dont you take the top details of teh new hand plate and put it on the base of the origional... :\ (where those 3 circular intusions are)

that would be more fitting i beleive if scaled correctly - this is onyl from what my head imagines it to be but do try with it please.

[TeeKup]

GUNDAM DO WANT.

[ExAm]

Oh shit, who let teek in here!? The sheer fanboyism he eminates is sure to destroy this thread! :v:

[Moses]

Changed handplates, unwrapped and rigged today.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3151/armsuy2.jpg
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1658/armswiredo5.jpg

also, can you say Zelda?

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/267/triforcesz0.jpg

Came up with this hand sign a long time ago but never had the idea to use it like this.

Final triangle count: 3350

[Malloy]

yay i quite like it now :D.

blatently my idea that helped it :thumbs up:

[Moses]

ya, i totally agree that giving it the halo 3 base was a good idea. just had to convince donut >_>. btw, i made a short reload render.

Reload.rar (http://files.filefront.com/Reloadrar/;11702736;/fileinfo.html)

[Malloy]

is that a custom animation, if so nice n fluent.

dont really see the hand plates though :P

[Moses]

no, it's stock. but ironclad's coming up some custom ones. my job is done. the arms are completely finished save for the textures. geo's doing those. i'll resume making the gundam unless someone else needs me to make something.

[Malloy]

sweet,

might want to leave the refresh button alone for a while now, it needs to cool down. :P

update pics when skinned.

[TeeKup]

Oh shit, who let teek in here!? The sheer fanboyism he eminates is sure to destroy this thread! :v:
I WILL DESTROY YOU.

[PlasbianX]

Looking nice

[Malloy]

lol, looking at that handplate again i can imagine a beer bottle weapona dn reload animation is the spartan takin the cap off with it.

an armour and a convenience.

[ICEE]

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/Sigma_arms_ar_reload.gif Incredible rig Moses :)

REP HIM GOGOGO

[Malloy]

yeh i quite like it now

so whats this then, the abnormal armour perm, hand plates, backpack jet booster filteration thingies + shoe perm?

[ICEE]

We're possibly going to go into a custom biped, that will essentially be an alteration on the mk 6. We just need to come up with a good concept. That is, if moses does decide to be a full member <3

[Moses]

ok, i worked on the gundam a little bit today and then watched the second bleach movie, Diamond Dust Rebellion from dattebayo.com :-D anyway, it's late so i'm not gonna start on the gun tonight. and since i model from bottom to top , the head is last every time.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5914/winggundambirdmodedi4.jpg

i decided to put it into bird mode without the gun or head. the shield has been scaled to 115% since this render.

[TeeKup]

The rear of the shield has too much of a curve downward. I don't believe it curves that much.

[Bastinka]

Pretty good model, how many tris?

[Moses]

we're quite quick to post arent we teek? but the shield has multiple different looks. i combined em into what i felt was most accurate and looks best.

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/2516/014vv0.jpg
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6250/5originalgundamsgundamwir5.png
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/4118/xxxg01wshieldvd1.jpg

270 tris for shield, 236 for beam saber (hidden in shield), 6752 for gundam. 7258 total

and here's one my ref for the back of the shield. remember i combine refs cause none are ever the same :'(

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/3459/vlcsnap521250im3.jpg

[TeeKup]

Oh the inconsistencies of traditionally drawn anime. It's actually hard to believe Gundam SEED, SEED Destiny and 00 are actually rendered with filters. The shield will do then. I'm anxious to see the buster rifle though. :-3

[Malloy]

lol awsome model, but why would you get obsessed about a cartoon robot/transformer thing(aimed at teekup)

[Moses]

Because he's a hardcore gundam addict. i love gundam wing but i really dont like seed or seed destiny. i feel they tried to take gundam wing's storyline and change it a bit and call it something new.

[Malloy]

anime seems juvenile to me, probs because i was forced to watch pokemon at my child minder's when i was a wee laddy.

but yeh, what else is on the agenda Moses? any other un gundam wing related wip's?

[TeeKup]

Because he's a hardcore gundam addict. i love gundam wing but i really dont like seed or seed destiny. i feel they tried to take gundam wing's storyline and change it a bit and call it something new.

Actually in SEED Futuka tried to re-tell the UC storyline but in a more futuristic way. SEED Destiny was the same only it tried to represent Zeta Gundam.

[Moses]

ya, gundam wing was set in UC. i never watched seed destiny cause imo it seems like a continuation of seed and i didnt think it'd be any different.

as for malloy, i've probably got something else to make if sigma has anything to say about it. they want me to join and i guess i'm gonna.

[TeeKup]

Actually Gundam Wing was an AU (Alternate Universe) like G Gundam.

[Moses]

hmm. that's a little different than i heard. but anyway, here's ur buster rifle and a bit extra :-D

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8564/winggundambirdmodedc4.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6176/winggundambirdmodewireap7.jpg

Wing Gundam: 6752 Triangles
Beam Saber: 236 Triangles
Buster Rifle: 828 Triangles
Shield: 274 Triangles

Total: 8090 (need to do some poly cutting to get it all below 8000)

[ICEE]

hurry up and model the head moses D:


gun looks awesome btw

[Roostervier]

hurry up and model the head moses D:
This.

Also, nice job so far, great modeling. : D

[TeeKup]

The buster rifle is far too large in comparison to the Gundam. The Buster Rifle is a large weapon, but it would never stretch below the Wing Gundam's feet were it pointed straight down. You need to size it down a little.

[Pooky]

it would never stretch below the Wing Gundam's feet were it pointed straight down. You need to size it down a little.
How can you expect me not to make a terrible that's what she said joke when you leave yourself so wide open :| (pun totally intended)

[Moses]

Ya, didnt really notice till the render was done. i finished the rifle and was setting it up while on the phone with an Art Institutes representative and she wanted to see the finished render. clay renders take a while so i was rushing. also, it does stretch just about to the bottom of his feet.

[Chainsy]

I know how you feel man, I have to rush alot of things that should take longer
:3

[TeeKup]

How can you expect me not to make a terrible that's what she said joke when you leave yourself so wide open :| (pun totally intended)

Congratulations Andrew, you just killed my mood for the thread.

[Pooky]

Dear God Andrew....

You said it not me <_<

[Moses]

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2523/gundam20wingoh2.jpg

i fixed it to look more like this and i shortened the shield a bit so it doesn't interfere with the shortened Rifle in bird mode

also, let's be adults about this children :-P

btw, i might just turn this into a halo biped when i finish it and make a cockpit first person.

[ExAm]

first person cockpits are a bitch to make, iirc. I haven't made one myself, but I don't think they generally work out.

[Moses]

Shouldn't be too hard. the modelling will be pretty easy and animating will be simple. moving will have the cockpit move up and down a lil and the hands will move the controls. firing and stuff will have the person in the cockpit pressing buttons and stuff. the camera screens will be faces with transparent scanlines that make it look like what you're seeing is a moniter projecting what's outside the gundam.

[ExAm]

Shouldn't be too hard. the modelling will be pretty easy and animating will be simple. moving will have the cockpit move up and down a lil and the hands will move the controls. firing and stuff will have the person in the cockpit pressing buttons and stuff. the camera screens will be faces with transparent scanlines that make it look like what you're seeing is a moniter projecting what's outside the gundam.
Ohhhh, you didn't mean a vehicle, I get it. That should be awesome.

[Moses]

I haven't been feeling too well these past few days. think it's from these damn seasonal allergies. until this damn headache and sore throat go away I probably wont be working on my models. also, for the gundam, if i do make it a biped I think ironclad would be good for animating the fp. it'll be a little different than what you're used to but there will be a pilots arms on the joysticks so it shouldn't be much different.

[Moses]

well here's what teek's been orgasming over secretly,

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3301/winggundamfinishedod7.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5391/winggundamfinishedwirett3.jpg

gundam: 7075 triangles
saber: 236 triangles
shield: 318 triangles
buster rifle: 804 triangles
total: 8415 triangles

and here's a comparison of the new and old. old is about 2 years old and i shudder at the sight of the wireframe. and for those of you who are ranting idiots as ironclad puts it, the new one is the left one. and as i would like to point out to the super idiots, left is that way <-----

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/645/comparejb4.jpg
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3388/comparewirelh6.jpg

old is 8674 polies

[ICEE]

WHY THE ONE ON RIGHT SUX SO BAD?1

Your polygons are so tidy. Well done

[Apoc4lypse]

:XD: me so horny, me love gundam long tyme


Like I said over aim to you.. *looks at time* 30 seconds ago...

gr8 job, I agree, very clean modeling.

[TeeKup]

O:

Now create a launching animation. >:3

[Moses]

first thing's first teek. needs moar uv's and moar rigz.

[Apoc4lypse]

first thing's first teek. needs moar uv's and moar rigz.

and moar texture :p

[Chainsy]

Which will be my job. :3

[ICEE]

Which will be my job. :3

you finish the arms first mister. :mad:

[Chainsy]

Basically done with them, geo has the metal covered, I'm just doing under armor, need to do elbow and I am done.

[Moses]

ok boys, here's what's been going on. I've been sick in bed for the past nearly 2 weeks and every now and then i got up and worked on the uvw's for wing, buster rifle, saber, and shield (which I made a totally new version based off the one they use in A.C.E. for reasons involving how it moves on the arm). I completed them right after i started feeling better and today i started on and finished the rig. if anyone could point me to a good tutorial on making inverse kinetic rigs in 3DS Max 8 then you'll be speeding up the animating process alot and i will be quite grateful :-) . and now, I leave you with a present.

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/6316/firingposenq6.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6338/finishedda5.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8326/finishedwirehr3.jpg

Wing Gundam: 7007 triangles
Buster Rifle: 804 triangles
Shield: 218 triangles
Saber: 236 triangles

total: 8265 triangles

I could only use 32 bones to rig the whole thing because that's all halo supports so alot of things I had to find a way around. good news though is there is not clipping at all or deformities and that makes me very happy :-D

finally, I might make another gundam if this one turns out nicely when it's done. these are the candidates: Shenlong, Sandrock, Wing (already making it :-P), Deathscythe, and Heavyarms respectively

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2523/gundam20wingoh2.jpg
and no teek, I'm not doing a Seed gundam

[ExAm]

and Heavyarms :iia:

[ICEE]

Gundam looks great moses. I love that theres so much detail to it

[TeeKup]

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY MAKE ZERO CUSTOM. :phonegonk:

[Moses]

ok, I've been preoccupied with other things lately but I've also been working on the gundams IK rig and the texture. the IK rig is almost done but I stopped before i finished the right arm to work on the texture. I'm about half done with the texture and i've been getting bugged to post a render so here ya go (the specular used in the render is the diffuse map so it's not completely accurate.)

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1691/wingdiffusexi5.jpg

[Anton]

Looking great man :D

[TeeKup]

TeeKup want Gundam.

[Hazard1337]

Sexy Gundam is looking sexy. =)

[SnafuPossum]

Hi everyone. Moses, your gundam is amazing cant wait for the finished product. I still remember way back when, when you were working with the old model(s).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCQlm055rTw

[Kalub]

SnafuPossum.....




WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?!~

[ExAm]

Hi everyone. Moses, your gundam is amazing cant wait for the finished product. I still remember way back when, when you were working with the old model(s).
vCQlm055rTwftfy

[Moses]

omg, wtf is that? >.< I dont remember making that and i know my spelling isnt that bad >_> lol. but those are my extremely old renders. and tbh honest ther were my firstmodels ever. man i've come a long way

[SnafuPossum]

that was me being bored late one night, as you can see by the spelling lol. i made that back in the biocroc days

[Moses]

Honestly idk y i Haven't finished the last liek 4% of the texture yet. I'm very easily distracted with other things. llama juice is quite aware of my tendency to go from one thing to another and forget about the other stuff lol. Anyway, this is a big improvment from what it used to look like, buuuuuttt I still havent gotten around to touching it in the last 4 or 5 months >_<. Hopefully this will motivate me to finish it.

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/049/9/5/Wing_Gundam_XXXG_01W_by_Chief_01.jpg

[Joshflighter]

Wow, thats amazing.

[ExAm]

WHERE'S TEEK. GET HIM IN HERE NOW SO THAT HE MAY CREAM HIS PANTS IN AWE.

[Advancebo]

Is it modeled in that pose, or is it rigged?

[ThePlague]

Is it modeled in that pose, or is it rigged?
He rigged it.

[TeeKup]

WHERE'S TEEK. GET HIM IN HERE NOW SO THAT HE MAY CREAM HIS PANTS IN AWE.

I just did. <.>

[Moses]

Actually it's more than just rigged. Like I said somewhere else, I've been experimenting with inverse kinematics and this is my first attempt. It works pretty well but I'm gonna redo it before I animate. I just finished a Warcraft 3 rig (trying to mod DotA and become familiar with severely low poly modeling techniques as well) on a very low poly version of this which I can animate with a lot easier. I'll prolly copy the idea to this one.
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9896/86202816.png

[Kilamanjaro12]

Sweet Gundam dude! how did you know i liked Gundams (toys) not show, show is meh

[Moses]

HURRAY FOR LOW POLY MODELING! Not really as low as I prolly should go for warcraft but this is about as low as I can go without losing too much shape. I already made an 877 tri megaman so yea lol. Anyway, the ik on this one is working out more beautifully than the other. This pose took prolly less than a minute to get. I realize it's not perfect but it was really just a test.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8079/iktest.jpg


PS: I think I'm one of the only people actually posting something with this April fools day crap going on. >_>

[TeeKup]

his left arm needs to be up a little bit more along with an open hand if possible. Other than that looking good.

[Moses]

his left arm needs to be up a little bit more along with an open hand if possible. Other than that looking good.

I already realized that. The foot also needs to point more upward but It didn't look good from any other angle. Also the hand is only 14 triangles so I cant really open the hand. It's not meant to. Like i said it's not perfect. I'll be making a series of animations for this warcraft 3 model. Partly because I doubt anyone here has max 4.2 lol. Mostly tho because I need to begin learning animating.

[Moses]

Spartan needed me to make a fuel rod gun from Halo 3 so i decided to time myself. Almost exactly 5 1/2 hours. 1755 tris

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3674/clay.jpg
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8521/claywire.jpg

[Spartan094]

lol its the 3p model dont forget that :haw: looks nice for a 3p weapon to me

[Advancebo]

The ammo thing is the wrong shape, there not cylinders, but more like pointed boxes.

[Moses]

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5864/72167864full.jpg

Anyone else?

[Terror(NO)More]

Adv = Pwned, and I was at Moses house for like the last 30 mins of him making it.

[Moses]

Yes u wuz. Lan Party wuz awesome :-D. btw Bryson, Jack let me keep the power cord so now I've finally got 2 working comps in my room. Dota any time >:-D

[_TheArbiter_]

Very nice Mo´... This is why you never fail to impress us :D

[Sever]

Very nice - it looks (as far as I can tell, while comparing it to the in-game and McFarlane model) perfect and ready to skin - and this is coming from someone who loves their Fuel Rod weaponry with an obsessive passion.

[Advancebo]

nvm then, I was thinking of Halo 2's fuel rod :V
Its still very nice. But is this for the 3p model, or both the fp and 3p models?

[Moses]

3p Model. Im gonna prolly remove the entire right half for the fp model and detail the left side like they did for halo 1's fuel rod.

[ICEE]

don't do that until after it has been animated. You never know what the animator will decide to do.

[teh lag]

IIRC the handle slides forward and back from recoil during the fire animation (or is that just in H2?), so I'd want to make some edits to the model (or at least plan for it in the skin) to allow for that. Also, the clamp around the rods looks a tad too thick - I don't think it'd be so fun to animate with something so large in the way.

[Moses]

I believe ur talking about h2. I don't have halo 3 but I don't see how the handle can slide forward at all, it's the handle for christs sake. If ur talking about the barrel tho i understand what u mean but it does allow it to slide back. and thnx for telling me about the thickness of the clamp. I thought it might be too thick but I decided i'd let the community critique the rest of the way.

[ExAm]

Where'd your grammar go? Or have you been typing that bad all the time and I just haven't noticed? Is that you, Terror?

[Moses]

I was kinda in a hurry so I used internet speak lol. I had to hurry up and work on a school assignment.

This thing.
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3062/assignment4.jpg
Haven't drawn anything in about a year and this is quite a refresher for me. If u know what kinda drawing this is supposed to be then congrats (don't say a hallway either >: ( )

[Syuusuke]

Hallway?

Kidding, this is quite...neat.

[Moses]

A friend told me I should make a spartan laser model after he saw my fuel rod and my time completion. Originally I was going to say I'd model one for the community but then another friend basically said I should take requests. After I make the fp model of the fuel rod I wont really have anything to make so if ppl can provide good multiviews and detail views then I'll model whatever it is they want for them. As long as it's nothing stupid >_> . U get a weapon or w/e and I get experience and a new portfolio piece.

[CSFLOYD]

Thats a very good drawing :).

[Terror(NO)More]

Yes, It's me Exam! :P I've been doing a lot of other things like Circuit Boards and making different electronics. I have not been on my computer much, other than internet use and chat, and some DOTA. I will get a gallery up here in a while. Considering I don't spend relentless hours on a project at a time, the time span for it spreads out making when it will be done, anonymous.

[ExAm]

Okay so you posted the same message twice, once in my profile and once on the boards, why?

[Moses]

Oh don't make a big deal out of it. He's letting other people know what's been doing as well. Not like it's a problem. Prolly posted it in your profile in case you didn't check here.

[Corndogman]

I'm really confused, what is going on right now?

[Moses]

Well advancebo wants me to make a h3 shade turret. So far it's taken me almost 6 hours to make tho I owe a lot of that to how hard it is to tell how parts are shaped. Refrences don't get good enough angles and the damn thing is too shiny :-/. It's blurring shit together D-: anyway, enough of my bitching, I'll update this when it's done.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6122/mostlydone.jpg
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/648/mostlydonewire.jpg
2178 triangles so far

[Advancebo]

Me likes :D
Though the base of it should look a bit shorter, or wider. And the main hull of it a little larger, also. Looks off proportions from the base to the hull.
Either way, nice job! I've been waiting to see it.

[Moses]

I've been looking through all the references quite a few times to try and get it to look right. there are a few things i needed to fix such as the connector things for the side panels, the horn on the base, and shrink the guns. This turret's design is severely annoying >_>

[Moses]

Well I have yet another drawing to post just cause.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8144/assignment2.jpg

[ThePlague]

That's awesome man. I can't even model as good as you draw.

[Advancebo]

You use rulers? or some kinda straight edge?

[Moses]

I felt like posting this just cuz. I had to draw something incorporating certain design elements but from a still life. So I had Donut pose for me :-D Hope you all like it.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5374/bobadilladevinwk6a1.jpg
camera really takes away from the smoothing and all other kinds of details I put in it like fabric lines. My equipment sux and my scanner whites out any light details. :-(

[Moses]

Holy Crap I need to dust this thread off. Anyway, thought I'd post something I've been working on for a little bit that I just finished the high poly model for. I'm going to make a lower poly model at around 5000-6000 tris, bake a normal map and ambient occlusion for it from this, and texture it. When I'm done I'm going to post the resources here. Except for the high poly model. That's my proof I made it.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/266/9/e/halo_reach_styled_magnum_by_chief_01-d2z8ab6.png

Reach's Magnum is the only Reach weapon concept I can actually say I like.

Also, IGNORE the attached thumbnail. idk how to delete it.

[PenGuin1362]

The level of detail is nice, and I know in Reach the grip is very square, but you said it yourself, "concept". Take their design and put your own spin on it. Beef the grip up a little and make it look more ergonomic or something. Get some other shapes in there besides boxes with chamfered edges. Right now it looks meh. Take some modern day aspects (like current laser sights and such) and use aspects of those to make theirs more appealing.

[Moses]

I also believe I told you that I have zero capacity to concept. I'm being totally serious. I suck ass at concepting forms. I'm pretty god with concepting other things though such as systems for weapons, vehicles, code, etc. I've tried though to concept. It takes so long for me to that's not even worth it to and I have never gotten anything good out of it. When I say it takes a long time I mean I was stuck on the same new MJOLNIR concept for like 6 months. So yea, I DO NOT concept. Besides, I was asked to model this just as it is in Reach. And I will.

[ExAm]

This isn't really a huge concepting effort you require here. Just thicken the grip up a bit, and then clean it up to make it work. You're definitely good enough to do it.

Never say die.

[Moses]

I already thickened the grip tho. It's not in this render because it'll take much too long to make another render at a 4096x3072 render like I wanted to do. It's 15% thicker so don't worry about it. I also thought it looked kinda skinny but I wanted to finish it before I judged.

[ICEE]

The thickened version looks a lot more proportional, very nice

[Moses]

Okay, before I say anything let me say I will ignore your comment if it involves "Gundam/Anime/Mecha/your design sucks ass" or anything with a related intended meaning.

So, anyway, I've been working on this for the past couple days as a new skin for my PSP 1000 (PHAT) I got from trading Plague some n64 controllers and 25$. I've got an idea of how I'm going to get it applied to the psp involving the use of a company that prints off water transfer decals using 300 dpi images you send to them and then seal it myself after it's applied using something(possibly a thin coat of epoxy applied after some dullcoat spray).

Aside from the aforementioned, I'd like some feedback on what you guys think. Anything you find out of place, hard to see, could use placement tweaking, etc. Of course, (looks at teekup) "HOLY CRAP THAT"S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!11111" is acceptable too lol. I've printed off a test page to see if everything is lined up correctly and before I fixed it I was pretty damn close. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Here's the front and back. As you'll see the PSP I used as a base was a pre-E3 render so it wasn't totally accurate, but it was big enough and accurate enough to work with.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/313/frontmockup.png

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9778/backdecal.png

[ThePlague]

Gundam and your design sucks. :p

But seriously, it looks like it'll be pretty awesome. Are you going to get a new back/front to put that on, or just keep the old one?

[Moses]

Getting a new UMD door and faceplate. the battery cover and memory stick sides are completely fine tho.

[TeeKup]

Try centering Wing's face over the buttons instead of off set like that, raise Luna slightly above the D-pad as well.

Good job on the pilots though, I also approve of using the Wing Gundam Ver Ka shield in the center. :-3
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jN-Zu7kL62U/S7ffq0zLdGI/AAAAAAAAInM/euLYtclCC6E/s400/xxxg-01w.jpg

Katoki did a wonderful job in its design.

[Moses]

Oh Teekie.

1702

:3

I'm also gonna make the high poly version of the buster rifle. the shield's front is done but i've still got like 20% of the back left to make.

[Moses]

Magnum is finished. I tried to make it a bit more pristine than the actual reach magnum. No deep gouges or anything. I didn't really like that since after talking to snaf about it for a while I realized exactly how good condition a military weapon would actually be in irl. I'll be releasing the tiff files and the low poly on this thread once ifafudafi and h3freak get it from me and get to use it first for a while.


Magnum: 6359 Triangles

Maps:
1024x1024 diffuse
1024x1024 specular
1024x1024 normals
1024x1024 opacity
256x2564 glow


Magazine: 461 Triangles

Maps:
512x512 diffuse
512x512 specular
512x512 normals
512x512 opacity


P.S. This was rendered with standard settings and a basic blinn shader. the only thing special was I used automatic exposure control to try to bring out the scratches more which causes highlights to be brighter and shadows to be darker. Kinda like autolevels in photoshop. Also, the reason the magazine is considered separate from the magnum is because I'll be using this in my oblivion mod as well and the magazines are able to be picked up separately from the magnum in the game world. They function as ammo and thus are a separate object in their own right.

http://www.deviantart.com/download/182313558/halo_reach_magnum_by_chief_01-d30jm1i.jpg

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1633/magnumandmagswire.jpg

[Higuy]

Looks really nice!

[Ifafudafi]

I'm still trying to get the words and logos to work right in Halo, but man, this is so awesome that it's awesome. In so many ways. This is what you guys'll be using in ASCM:

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8607/fuckdu.jpg

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5130/yeahu.jpg

I love the fact that I don't have to use that lolhueg whatever-the-hell-it-is on the front of the pistol. It makes the weapon look original but still feel like Halo, which is exaclty the aesthetic I'm going for.

[Moses]

It's a camera that links to the users eyepiece/hud and when zoomed it displays from the magnums point of view. making it better than an optical scope or iron sights. That's what I'm thinking it is anyway. Also, the safety pin isn't displaying. And about the text, you probably should have Icee detatch it to separate elements so you can make it a separate shader. Might work better that way.

[TeeKup]

Gorgeous pistol.

[Warsaw]

It's a camera that links to the users eyepiece/hud and when zoomed it displays from the magnums point of view. making it better than an optical scope or iron sights. That's what I'm thinking it is anyway. Also, the safety pin isn't displaying. And about the text, you probably should have Icee detatch it to separate elements so you can make it a separate shader. Might work better that way.

It IS the scope. But other than that, you're correct; it's where the "2x Smart Linked Scope" comes from in the original manual.

[Moses]

okay, I've given h3freak and Ifafudafi enough time to privately mess with the magnum before I released the resources. HERE YALLLL GO (http://chief-01.deviantart.com/art/Halo-Reach-Magnum-RESOURCES-182927557)

[Amit]

That's one sexy pistol without that optical scope on the front of it. Shaders are excellent as well, which is pretty much what makes this gun look so good apart from the model.

[Necr0matic]

Really loving that Pistol/Magnum, great work.

[Needles]

That pistol is amazing :O

I really got to re-install Halo and CE after seeing some of the newest work for it.

[Pooky]

I always wanted to see the M6D/G pistols without the scope. Looks pretty awesome. I would make the laser sight darker and give the front sight a more defined glow, though. The skin's looking pretty monotonous at the moment, though I imagine it's not finished yet.

[Moses]

No, it's finished, and honestly I wont really change much on it. I know it's bland but that's because I don't want to put all kinds of heavy wear details and gradients on it. I wanted to make something more Crysis style pristine for once. I asked snaf for feedback on what a real military gun's wear and tear would look like and came up with this. Go ahead and say you don't like my style choice, It doesn't bother me. I'm using it in Oblivion and I expect others to use it in much better engines than Halo CE's so as to make it look as good as it can be. So yea, I'm happy with it and if you're not then sorry about your luck.

I'll probably increase the size of the glow radius a little on the front red sight. I like the tone of the laser though so I don't want to change it.

[SnafuPossum]

any updates?