Category Archives: texturing
Two Days, Two Shots
After settling down in the new house, I’ve found the time to complete two leftover comps from this past year: close shots of fingers hitting the glass display buttons. These were troublesome because I had to actually create not only … Continue reading
Flea Modeling Update, Pt 6
I’ve done some work on the engines. I’ve been having an interesting time getting them to fit with the rest of the ship look-wise; I think they’ll have to have harsher edges and some greebles. Work on the cockpit/head area … Continue reading
Flea Modeling Update, Pt 6
Landing Gear section is done. On to the engines!
Flea Modeling Update, Pt 5
Nearly done with the landing gear section. Tomorrow it’s onto the Nacelles and then finishing up the cockpit area. Then the wonderful exciting conversion to Maya. Hopefully this will be done by Tuesday.
Flea Modeling Update, Pt 4
The landing gear assembly area has been completely mocked up. The fuel tanks are textured/finished. Tomorrow I’ll attack it piece by piece. All of the texture reference I gathered of hydraulic rams and the like at my last job will … Continue reading
Flea Modeling and Texturing, Pt 2
The Flea model is divided up into three main parts: the head/cockpit area, the nacelles, the cargo pods and the landing struts. Everything is mocked up, and modeling is almost finished on the head/cockpit area, as well as the cargo … Continue reading
Texture Shoot for Flea Model
The Flea, drawing inspiration from truck elements (headlights, grille, bumpers, storage container doors, etc) obviously needed some truck-like textures. We went down the road, stopping when we spotted a truck, running out, grabbing some photos, and scurrying back in before … Continue reading
Cockpit Update
The conversion was technically done on Wednesday, but I’ve since massaged the lighting and texturing in Maya (now that I’ve actually had a couple of hours to play around with it). The result is below. There are still things that … Continue reading
8th Air Force Museum – Texture Hunt
A group of us went to the 8th Air Force Museum off of 95. Loren was gathering reference for a 3D project, Evan wanted to see the chapel, and I needed, very specifically, textures for the walls of The Flea … Continue reading