Yet another double model post. Wasn’t feeling great yesterday and decided to skip it and just do 2 of them today.
Day 13 is some sort of rivet or socket thing:
Day 14 is a metallic plating or cap piece:
Yay for kitbashable nurnies! (translation: I get excited about odds and ends)
*cough* Well, I somehow missed yesterday’s model, so I am just extending the model from Day 10 to be a truncated modular set. Might add more pieces later, but for now, this will do.
The curved piece looks slightly funky despite it being a perfect curve.. *shrug*
I was finally able to fit in some more detail on this one. Also, I included an animated GIF stepping through my modeling process. Fun, huh?
Workflow:
Well, I keep finishing these things way too late so I skimp on some detailing, but you get the general idea. Electrical switch box.
I have always had this bizarre love for hubcaps. They remind me of futuristic jet engine exhausts. So here is one of many I am likely to post. 100% quads, all one mesh, no floating geo. There is a satisfying feeling from creating a smooth mesh without floating geo. I raise my arms in triumph.
To better illustrate what is going on here, since some of you have asked, I updated this post with the unsmoothed wire:
The smoothed mesh is a NURBS model (I think 3ds Max calls it NURMS though). Non-Uniform Recursive B-Spline. Think of bezier curves or, better yet if you’ve used them, b-splines. Take 3 points, make a 90 degree angle out of them. A b-spline takes the angle, averages the distance and turns it into a curve. Manipulating those angles will give you a smooth curve, however you desire, with less underlaying geometry.
I know I forgot the bolt sockets. Didn’t have the time to add them.
A little late again, but it’s not a strict deadline. It’s only 30 mins after midnight. Going back to the mechanical stuff here. I do love machinery.
Somewhat of a re-post. I took the same theme from Day 4 and sculpted it in Mudbox instead of ZBrush. The end result was much better, and makes me wish ZB had a tool similar to the ‘Scrape’ tool in Mudbox. Quite a shame, really. It’s really the only primary advantage that I feel Mudbox has over ZB. Anyway:
Some sort of tech panel. I’d add more detail but I am exhausted today. Nice return from the monstrosity of yesterdays… whatever the hell it is.
I’m also going to be changing my routine here starting Monday. One model a day is way too much strain on my sanity. So I will be changing it to one model a week. That way, I can still keep to the commitment, but at a more sane, pace. Or maybe I just need to model simpler stuff 
Ok, so It’s a couple minutes past midnight, but who cares. Right. First attempt at a zbrush model. Meh. Here go:
This was supposed to be a crystal formation, but turned out looking like solidified poo. Or something. Need more zbrush experience before trying again.
Bahaha posted it with 1 minute to spare! I win. Model done by request. Batman ring.
