Reply To: [CGC Challenge #2] Vehicles

Live Critique Submission. 

The first idea was to get as close to realism as possible. After blocking out the shapes and the first few times spent on the project I realized that is not going to be the case with my current sculpting skills and this deadline. It started lean towards stylized (at least that’s how I see it) and that’s when I just stopped worrying and tried to enjoy myself. It would be nice to hear some notes about the overall design and the details of the sticks, wood and rock. Does the model read well? Would it be better to try to make it more realistic or maybe go overboard with the stylizing? Are the materials recognized as rock and wood? That’s the most of the things that are top of my mind at the moment. And as always, if there are anything that caches your eye, I would be more than happy to hear any critique you are willing to give. Thanks!

And yeah. The fabrick/leather roof and “back window” are under construction. Basically all they are for now is tweaked planes with cloth sim and a wrinkle normal map.

EDIT. That’s all I have for the critique request. Rest of the text is just something I wrote about the process in the first post.

Sculpted, retopologized and normals baked. Next is some more learning in Substance Painter that I finally started figuring out few weeks ago. 

I’m not a big fan of cars, motorcycles, airplanes, trains or other vehicles, though I like traveling and enjoy driving motorcycle for example, but never been interested in such things. Seeing the given topic gave me some what of a cold sweat but of course I had to give it a go. These are CHALLENGES after all.

It’s funny to think that even if I’m not a fan of vehicles and sculpting is never my first chosen approach, I still ended up with a subject that includes sculpting and, of course, is a vehicle. It has been delightful process this far and I remember enjoying the vehicle sculpting part of Kent’s vehicle class from last year. It must have been the spark that helped me when picking the subject.

PS. I’m really sorry if people start hearing Flintstones theme in their head after these pictures. It have happened to me constantly after the researching for reference images started and it still happens occasionally when continuing the project or thinking about it 😂