Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Ingmar Franz]

@dostovel I agree with @blanchsb: “It’s not the hardware that makes greatness happen, nor is it the software. It’s the Omar.” You’ll rock this 👍👍👍😀!!!

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Go Omar!! Go Omar!! Go Omar!! 

[Kent Trammell]

No way! Looks like several parts match our DOG’s model #. Not sure I could resist sneaking down there for some hands-on time. Though it’s seen better days for sure lol.

[Kent Trammell]

We can always count on @dostovel to keep us laughing around here! We can expect that as much as we can expect to create stuff with Blender 😆

I hate that you’re lacking a decent PC to work on, man. That’s SOOOO frustrating when you’re primed to create. Too bad there isn’t a stadia-like setup where you could work on a Blender super-computer remotely. Surely someone’s working on that idea 🤔

[Ingmar Franz]

@dostovel is, additionally to his awesome modeling skills, a humorous philosopher and a great motivator👍! Thank you very much, @dostovel😀!

[Shawn Blanch]

We are submitting our progress on the google sheet #6 correct?

I am not finished with the chair but I am loving the bottom portion just so much haha. I posted the link tonight to the google drive but I’m going to be working on it up to the live stream to be honest.  So many parts that go together so beautifully I just can’t resist.

[Omar Domenech]

So here I thought this was going to be the last stream and that we had to go all the way to 100% and entirely finish our interior parts. But in the very white excel sheet it says 50%.

I’m glad due to the fact that I could only get my part to around 80% because I took a freelance job which has been taking every little second of my free time. I really  should start playing the lottery. 

[Kent Trammell]

@blanchsb @dostovel Yes, #6 (50%) is the expectation this week. In hindsight I probably shouldn’t have split the assignments for people further ahead – just served to confuse I think. I feel confident #7 will be the last one!

[Omar Domenech]

Here’s an idea…. ready?…… Make #8 the last stream and the assignment there is everyone has to beautifully UV unwrap all their parts, leave them ready for who ever wants to do shading and texturing for the whole DOG. Yes? No? Maybe? Perhaps? I like it.

[Kent Trammell]

Honestly my first thought…

😅 Lol mostly because I’m eager to close this first “chapter” of the DOG project and I feel like UVs could be a whole new can of worms. But I’ll pitch your idea during the stream tomorrow and if people want to do it then I won’t stop us!

[Omar Domenech]

I kinda enjoy UV unwrapping.

Though I’m eager to finish up as well.

[spikeyxxx]

Personally, I’d go procedural for 97% of the model apart from some decal-like parts, which can probably be done without great unwrapping (mostly just Project from View or something like that).

Can’t honestly see much advantage in unwrapping everything, not because I don’t like unwrapping or am too lazy to do it, of course.

[Omar Domenech]

Yes to procedural, I’m thinking more on the line of the used up, banged up, dirty look that would use lots of hand placed stuff. Though if the DOG is to be a super Pro ready asset, I think for it all to be a unwrapped is a must. But I think is true that maybe that’s for a new phase of the project, we’ve been dong this for many months now, this phase should stop at modeling. Or maybe we should ask around, who does the UV’ing, the modeling department or the texturing department? I bet it’s one of those things that neither wants to do and it gets shuffled around.

[spikeyxxx]

I think that a ‘used up, banged up, dirty look’ can be very effectively achieved with procedural textures (in the rigth hands of course..)

[Adrian Bellworthy]

I’m with @spikeyxxx , procedural all day. Not so sure it would be to difficult to unwrap, just time consuming.

Dirt and dust etc. can be added with procedural. 

Next chapter please.

And I agree, not that I’m lazy either.

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