Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Agreed,

Adrian Bellworthy  

@adrian2301 , @worthy3D.  

Full name can be searched on all platforms Twitter, Instagram, Artstation, CGCookie to name the top four.

Just searched on Google… 4th in the results….. Backhoe Contribution CGCookie. 

[abm3010]

Ahmed Bahrani – abm3010

[artifact]

I’m happy to forever hold my peace, Kent. Artifact will do just fine.

[Kent Trammell]

Hello again DOG POUND – Every night Linux Luke is churning out more final frames of the DOG. I’m about halfway done and currently sitting at 85GB in images alone! This is one big reason I haven’t asked for help rendering…way too much space needed to sync through Google Drive.

In the meantime @blanchsb requested a 4K render of the DOG for his desktop wallpaper and I figured I’d share it here:

[Shawn Blanch]

I feel glorious…..glorious! (booming from the BellWorthy speakers inside our DOG)

[Shawn Blanch]

So Kent @theluthier  I have to ask: Have you tried E-Cycles yet? They are claiming extreme performance increases in render time. I want to know a professional’s opinion though.

[Kaj Suominen]

Looks amazing, you all did an awesome thing! 🙂

[Omar Domenech]

Who even wants a Porsche anymore.

[Kent Trammell]

@blanchsb Like a goober I have NOT tried E-Cycles. I absolutely should have for this project! Seems like a brilliant tool. Admittedly I don’t know any colleagues that have used it though. Just high praise on twitter.

I should preface that being a teacher makes me very hesitant to user 3rd party tools (free and especially paid). It muddies the water when teaching to not use stock blender (hard lesson I learned years back) and I don’t want to get hooked on a good tool I can’t use when recording. Like retopoflow. It’s one of the best retopology tools in 3D (not just Blender) and developed in-house and I don’t use it at all because it would be so hard to go back to stock tools afterward lol.

@louhikarme Thanks! We missed you on this project. You think you’ll be available in April for the next collab?

[Kaj Suominen]

@theluthier  Last year was interesting, to say the least. 🙂 I’d like to, though currently, April is looking really vague. Have to see how things are then. 🙂

[Shawn Blanch]

Ooooooof. Yeah your explanation is spot on! I myself am an add-on junkie. That E-cycles carries a hefty price tag though and I just don’t render enough currently to feel the pain. But when I do I plan on buying it.

I love Retopoflow. Another great tool in conjunction is Quad Remesher (makes using retopoflow more of a fun exercise because most of the mundane retopo parts are already done quite well).

Between fluent and hardops and boxcutter to machin3 tools and Serpens I’m a little addicted to working more efficiently.

However my SKILLS came from doing things the vanilla way and I appreciate you sticking to that teaching style. Yup I can agree with only teaching vanilla skills. Makes the playing ground fair for everyone and that’s where the skills are learned,

In engineering I learned to do really stupid-tough math problems by hand for hours (and some of them took all week for 1 homework problem……thanks Advanced Dynamics for teaching me pain 😛 ) and then I leave university and everyone uses programmed tools because it is impractical to sell stuff waiting on an engineer with paper and pen to draw up the same equations every day.

The same goes with Blender. I just figured this would be a use case where E-cycles would probably shine.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Sorry for the delayed response @pfbourassa , hope it’s not too late. I have added a file to the backhoe folder on Google Drive named dogtag, this one is from the puppy. There is another version on the top of the engine which is in a collection called dog tag in the engine file. Have a look and see which one you want to use. If I remember the only difference was the triangle, one is at the top the other the bottom.

[Kent Trammell]

It’s Done. It’s finally DONE!!!

One last excruciatingly long slow clap goes out from me to the amazing DOG POUND. What a project 👏

Shoutout to @jlampel for assisting with camera work, animation, and rendering power. Also shoutout to @pfbourassa coming through hard with his offer to help with video editing. Parker added all the sound effects and edited the credit sequence. 👏

[Omar Domenech]

[Adrian Bellworthy]

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