More cool winter digi camo!

Still seeing what fits.... Loving these angular geometric shapes over the square pixels, one is quite like lightning bolts, those two are certainly my faves thus far! As far as the model goes, I'm dying to step in and record some more, its just a question of time after work... If I was just doing this for myself then I'd be up late working on the laptop at home, like usual, but as I'm recording this I need a bigger screen, which I bring back home from the studios when I can. I'm at the final detailing stage, surface details and overall tweaks, adding of "greeblies" to tech it up...

Winter Camo - Digi, digi and more digi camo.....

So this tutorial is still in the works, have to film the last stages of overall detailing as we're pretty much there from a modelling point of view, but at lunchtime today I had to allow myself the pleasure  (and it is a pleasure) of jumping into Keyshot to see where I want to take this... I had already thought about setting it in some baron, snow covered wilderness, a lonely posting for a Remote Weapon System drone. I checked out some cool winter digi-camo patterns and wrapped them onto the model and inserted a photo backplate, painted out the Jeep that was there and was struck with something that in hindsight is actually very obvious, the camo made the model hard to see against the background!! I managed a bit of a work around by adding gusts of snow to knock back the trees, this gives some visual separation and you can make out the form more...

These are not the final images of the demo but a work in progress teaser and just helping me decide where I'm taking this.

Hope you like them, more coming soon!

New gun mounts - Check!

These have been plaguing me, finding the right balance of cool tech and scale, "remote weapon systems" are great reference and I had ideas about concealed turrets that extend and rotate out, but they just started to over complicate things and look like ears! So whilst I've taken licence on the overall design I'm choosing to play down the guns, just go for that utilitarian look of hard naked tech!

More to come....

Staying late after work...

Just aren't enough hours in the day! I'm cramming them in to try and get this tutorial vid done, I thought it would be a very direct modelling approach but its been interesting as I despite having a design to work to I'm still resolving design issues on the fly, there's trial and error, software crashes and mistakes all recored, I will leave them in as I think its important to see these issues, its about resolving them when you come to them... I do have to pause the recording quite a bit, just like painters do, I have have to just step back and look at it for a while, turn it around, walk away make a coffee and come back, see it with "fresh eyes" hit pause and resume the modelling... Audio is going to have to be recorded after, I just can't talk and create, hats off to those who can! I just enjoy finding "The Zone" and losing myself in it....

Here's a little screen grab from last night