ski, boot, and binding (hard surf. modeling practice)
 

Hi guys, I've decided that I'd work on my hard surface modeling skills :)

So, here's what i've got so far (working in Modo as of now, I'll take it to Maya soon though ;))

image- the front of the binding. very beginning ;)

looks good!

but the binding you lost yesterday was better :(


anyway


good job!:attn:

i hope to see it finished, lol

-Andy:beer:

i dont really know anything about skiis, so i cannot critique it :(

now that I think about it, I must have been crazy modeling what I was. It's about as far away from a binding as anything. After a long day of skiing (and patting myself on the back for successfully landing a 360 iron cross and a grind on the monster 7 foot rainbow rail ;)), I now know what the binding should look like :)

I've stripped down some images for refs :)

This would be a freestyle binding (it's very close to the one on my freestyle skiis, and that's the reference that I'm using for my modeling.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5...ne20binsg6.jpg

This would be a kind of race bindind. I have something similar on my GS Race skiis
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4...1ffyb45xv6.jpg

I'm going for the first one, though gonna add some elements of the second one to it :)

binding base

now thats some good Hard Modeling, lol

wireframe?;)


-andy

centerpiece done :)

wires:
binding base
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7...p2wire1sv4.jpg

centerpiece
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5...p2wire2wj8.jpg

I've finished the small frontpeice for now... time to do homework and sleep :zzz:

edit: i do see that crease along the side, and it's gone now ;)

oooh, great modeling!:attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn: :attn:



you should take it into Indigo, lol
(i know, you told me you are, lol)



anywayy, im blown away by your skill with hard surfaces.... its kinda scary ;)

SCARIER THAN BOWSER IN PINK SHOES!

LOL, IDK


good work!:beer:

not much to say atm. It looks good. The centerpeice thing needs a bit more detail when comparing to the picture. It also looks a bit flat. it needs to bulge out more.

Keep it up :)

thanks :)

i've detailed the centerpeice a little bit (the hole things and a gap in the middle ;) Not sticking to the origional design, I'm improvising here and there
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7...dinwip5ch4.jpg

that looks much better :)

those are the most beautiful holes ive ever seen!

lol



great job, much better! ^_^

nice work matt, cant wait too see it fully textured

Looks good so far matt, cant really comment as I've never seen what your modeling, coming from that great alpine country England LOL!

thanks guys, and haha gster :D

Well, I think i've done the front peice totally, on to move to the back peice :)

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5...ingwip5sj7.jpg

stop being so good at hard surface modeling, haha;)

working on the back-

quick render (modo internal renderer, full GI, 1 min 12 s.)
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/5...ingwip6gf8.jpg

As well as a test reder of the entire ski so far (again, just fooling around with Modo's internal renderer. Full GI, DOF, 2 min. 33 s.)
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/5...render1ru4.jpg\

C+C is welcome!

this is looking cool! Nice work matt and good choice of object.
:beer:

thanks :)

I've rendered another angle of the back (and added 2 things, almost done!!!)

Render in 5:37

Finished the binding!

here's a screengrab of the back ;)

and couldn't resist one last test render before going to texture this baby ;)

C+C???

(render in 6m 31s)

no crits from me, lol


as i said before, i dont ski, lol


but good model!:beer: :beer: :beer:

:beer: -Andy

I honestly cant remember too much about bindings, been a while since i've been skiing... but your modelling is amazing man, very detailed. Beautiful renders too. Can you show any ref images you've used?

Thanks for the positive feedback guys :)

Here's the ref's i've been using:

Freestyle binding (close to the kind I have on my freestyle skiis)
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5...ne20binsg6.jpg

Race Binding (the exact same kind as I have on my GS race skiis, except mine are Volkl ;))
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4...1ffyb45xv6.jpg

The ski itself that I'm trying to model (the one that I have and I use for freestyle... admittedly not the best freestyle ski, but it's pretty cheap and it hasn't broken even after all the torture that I put it through :p)

Render so far (materials not at all final, and no textures yet ;))

render in Indigo... screw modo haha

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7875/render3md8.jpg

lol, i thought you loved modo, lol




nice render, not Maxwell quality, but nice, haha


i love it