Sunday, October 20, 2013

More Practice, more info on future Posts

Hello again, everyone
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who actively follows this blog after just one month of it being created. Getting all those E-Mails asking me where I've been and when I'm going to post something again sure is very motivating. 
Now, that being said, I won't promise anything along the lines of posting once a week again, but I'll try to keep it up most of the time since we now started to get assignments at University. Assignments about making 3D-Assets, that is. I think I'll have an easier time keeping regular posts up that way. 
Let's go straight to my practice then. This is what I modeled mostly out of my imagination with some references here and there:

Obviously, this is a fire hydrant. It has around 58,7 thousand polygons, thus being the highest-polycount-model I've done so far. And it's been a blast trying out different techniques.
The hardest part was definitely extruding those cylinders out of the base cylinder without using a boolean since those easily mess everything up. That part took me around an hour. After that it was just pretty much doing the same things I did with my earlier models, just being more careful this time so I don't mess up the flow of the edges around the mesh. 
Total work time on this model: 5,5 hours with breaks here and there.
I could have done it way faster, but I paid extra attention to the top and the bottom parts. Additionally, it's pretty late here in Germany right now so I wasn't at the peak of my concentration at all.
I'm pretty happy with my model as it stands, there's probably a lot of room for improvements and if anyone has any critique, feel free to comment and/or E-Mail me about it.

On another note, I'll be in Amsterdam at a convention this coming week so the next post might be in a week and a half again. Just to inform everyone about that.

Alright, so that's this "week"'s post, I hope you enjoyed reading it. I sure enjoyed modeling the hydrant and writing this post, that's for certain!
That's it from me, then. See y'all later, take care!

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. - Oscar Wilde

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