Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Kent Trammell]

@ritag Sorry I didn’t get to this yesterday! I don’t do well with on-the-fly grading 😅 If you could submit assignments by the Sunday night prior the next stream, that’s ideal for me to look it over and make notes on Monday so I’m prepared by Tuesday.

Also if you could create a separate forum thread dedicated to your work on the project, that would be best for focused conversation (rather than getting lost in the shuffle of this massive thread). Here’s the assignment 3 post where I outlined this, which no doubt has been lost in shuffle lol

[Shawn Blanch]

That chair is looking grrrrrrreat. Rita. I wanna sit in it now.

[Rita Geraghty]

Shawn, thanks for photos of 430F. 

[Rita Geraghty]

No worries, Kent @theluthier. 

Shawn, I laid off mirror modifier, as I didn’t want to deal with double points during modelling stage.

[spikeyxxx]

Here’s another video with great close-ups, also from the cab interior:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDCxQmZoPSU

For instance:

which also has a cover:

And then @duerer there are shots like this:

[Ingmar Franz]

And it shows my rear axle, too, spikeyxxx 😀! Thank you so much 👍!

[Kent Trammell]

Amazing video @spikeyxxx! I vastly underestimated video reference through this project. Realizing way too late how much golden reference was buried in the annals of Youtube

[Kent Trammell]

Sorry for the late assignment post, DOG POUND!

The remainder of this past week I worked to get the interior blocked out in order to make a smooth transition for everyone into the interior. Alas I didn’t quite finish the blockout which was needed to write up clear instructions. It’ll be the first thing I do on Monday.

[Omar Domenech]

Ok I made a small comprehensive guide that will hopefully help understand our new workflow.

[Shawn Blanch]

(speechless…………..awestruck………………amazed……………….appreciative……………………..bewildered………………hungry)

[Shawn Blanch]

I almost don’t want to type after that masterpiece Omar, that is an amazing quality walk-through AND presentation my horned, pink wheeled, chicken headed, cat-tailed friend.

………………………………………..But duty calls (and I got no more kids in diapers so………..)

@dostovel and @ketre  @theluthier @ryzen7 the battery box is rubbing on the soles of the operator’s brand new pair of Red Wing Shoes in the cab. As it punches through the floor board.
At first this was a welcomed addition since he could wipe the mud off his soles while operator-ing, but he keeps tripping over it during entry and exit and almost broke a hip. So he asked me to request a design revision over in engineering.
I can’t say which is the culprit but one of them needs to give.

Master of Loose Ends is on the lookout from here on out.

[spikeyxxx]

Great! Very clear!

Btw: apparently the official CAT ‘yellow’ (for the logo) is FFC500, which is (1, 0,55834, 0) in Blender RGB (you can also directly type in the HEX value of course). Can you confirm that @blanchsb ?

[Omar Domenech]

I should’ve gone with the wheels.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

I should of hid at the back of class and stuck with the fenders. ha ha

[Shawn Blanch]

I should have run away and joined a 3D online hobbyist team where I demanded perfection from others full-time 🙂

But alas, it is only a part time gig. And my phone has gps so running away isn’t really a thing anymore.

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