F8F Bearcat

Maya 2020 fundamentals - modelling the real world

Get halfway through a model and find it's an unworkable mess? Can't add edge loops where you need them? Can't subdivide a mesh properly? If any of this sounds familiar check this course out.

Watch

# 1 27-08-2004 , 12:11 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 20

WIP: F8F Bearcat

user added image

Quote

# 2 27-08-2004 , 06:17 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003

Location: Johannesburg

Posts: 641

Nice start! Keep it up!

Quote

# 3 27-08-2004 , 06:29 PM

Registered User
Join Date: May 2002

Location: Niagara Falls, Canada

Posts: 5,310

Really nice start so far.. will be watching this thread.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination, knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)

https://www.artstation.com/kurtb

Quote

# 4 27-08-2004 , 11:00 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Mar 2004

Location: ENGLAND

Posts: 404

nice details user added image

- straight from the starting blocks

MURPH

Quote

# 5 28-08-2004 , 11:54 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: May 2004

Location: That place with all those people

Posts: 1,041

Gr8 work, keep it up.

Watch Space Wars at www.3dden.co.uk now!
__________________________

My pin number is XXXX

Quote

# 6 28-08-2004 , 12:31 PM

Technical Director
Join Date: Feb 2004

Posts: 2,988

Yeah nice work.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Quote

# 7 28-08-2004 , 01:13 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002

Posts: 441

Looks really good, are you going to animate it eventually? user added image

Quote

# 8 01-09-2004 , 12:32 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 20

Update: F8F Bearcat

Some Refinement and Additions:

user added image

Quote

# 9 01-09-2004 , 01:04 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003

Location: New York, USA

Posts: 1,945

Looks really nice dude. Actually inspired me to make some stuff. user added image

________________________
AIM: SublimeDragon33
Catch me if i'm on. Always up for a chat.
e-mail: sublimedragon33@gmail.com

Quote

# 10 07-09-2004 , 02:09 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 20

Update: F8F Bearcat

Question: I've been breaking up the Geometry of the Bearcat into parts at various prominent seams on the plane instead of just making one single mesh. It reduces the number of polies I have to move around if I want to make drastic changes, but I'm wondering if professionals in the film and game industries would frown upon not having a single high-poly mesh for this model.

On the upside, I'm pretty excited about how much easier High Poly modeling has gotten for me in the past few days. Working in the game industry for the past three years has retarded my other skills. user added image

Comments and Critiques so far? I'll be finishing up the wings, legs and armaments shortly.

user added image

Quote

# 11 07-09-2004 , 02:28 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 78

Nice mode, Miercoles. Nice clean lines user added image

Quote

# 12 07-09-2004 , 11:06 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: Mar 2004

Location: ENGLAND

Posts: 404

still looking really good - no crits user added image

looking forward to seeing those weapons.

Murph

MURPH

Quote

# 13 07-09-2004 , 11:45 AM

Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2002

Location: London, UK

Posts: 2,800

not having it as one mesh is better. We generally split the models up where we wont see the joins. that way we can assign different maps to them (thus we can have larger texture maps on them and paint more detail in) so i wouldn't worry about that.

The only part that looks a little off to me is the nose cone. It looks a little too large.

Cheers

Alan

Technical Director - Framestore

Currently working on: Your Highness

IMDB

Quote

# 14 07-09-2004 , 01:45 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Feb 2004

Location: Amsterdam

Posts: 731

looks very clean! very nice mesh...me like(ing) it :p

Quote

# 15 13-09-2004 , 07:45 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 20

Update: Almost Done

Just have to add the Cockpit Seat, Roll Bar, Rear Wheel & Check Proportions.

user added image

Comments and Critiques welcome.

Do you think this is a good portfolio piece? I'm thinking of creating a low-poly version and generating a Normal Map. For right now though I'm taking a break from this model to work on another WWII vehicle: The M4 Sherman Tank.

Quote

Reply to this thread