CONTEST - Episode III Location WIP Invisible Hand Observation deck - Lightsaber_Monster

Hi everyone, Yes im doing the same place as ravenger for the compotition, heres my WIP for the observation deck:

Observation deck

Reference I used Ravenger's

All my WIP on this will be posted in this thread

 

hehe cool may the best modeler win look good sofar but its oval shaped but that may just be me

 

Your right, hmm maybe ill turn on subsurfs

 

Ok everyone, the next update is here!, Ive added the chair

Odservation deck

Hope to hear your comments

 

Looks prety neat so far . You're pretty good with blender. I could never get the hang of it . Anyway, it'd be nice to see some textures in some of these models, though i cant do that myself so I shouldn't really complain.

 

Ok everyone, I decided to scrpe part of the old model that I didnt like

Heres the update

Hope you like it!

 

a close up of that chair would be nice. the walls are coming on nicely. you need to add more in the centre now, like the table and stuff

 

Right now Im about to start work on the balcony and the stairs

 

Hi everyone Ive modeled alot on the balcony

Heres the upadate

 

here this may help you'll need to cut the floorplan from the image tho if you want to use it in your modeling app

anyways good luck with it i just thought this could help you

[image=http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7157/floor12xu.jpg]

 

Hope you think its good, thanks for the image, it really helped

 

Heres the next load of updates incuding:

Wire frame

Solid

Chair close up

Alll renders can be viewed here

Hope to hear your comments

 

not bad. Everything still looks a little rough, but some subdivision should handle that

 

What program are you using? It looks good but it needs some smoothing (not neccesarily meshsmooth) if you are using Max then you can just add the smooth modifier and put it on autosmooth-it will get rid of the hard edges on the curved parts but won't deform the model.

 

Im afriad Im using blender, Oh sorry bout those renders guys, I had my subsurf rendering value set to 0 insted of 3

 

Heres a little update, Ive done the balcony entrance and laid it out on a plane for lighting, the proper balcony will be added when Im done with smoothing the rest of the model down

[image=http://www.450mb.com/users/sabermonster2/Observation%20deck%20render%205.jpeg]

 

Anyone going to comment?

Ive got another WIP for you guys

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/60_1134160986.jpg]

Its one of those pillar things at the sides

 

Very nice.
I like the lighting setup.
Shouldn't it be angled though, instead of vertical?

Have fun.

 

Thanks for the comments, heres the fixed link from 2 posts above

Ive smothed off alot of the model, and fixed some things like: I found a double layer of faces under the chair, they were causing black triangles, I had to delete them

Heres the latest render:

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/23_1134229819.jpg]

 

Thats looking great. I can't wait to see it done.

 

Heres another update, Ive modeled the next level under the chair's platform . A few things dont look right beacause something happeed when I reinstalled blender(because blender wouldent open preoperly) there is some smothing that isent supposed to be there, it will be corrected when I give more updates

Sorry for the bad lighting setup!

Heres the update:
[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/60_1134243805.jpg]

And Wireframe render:

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/76_1134243847.jpg]

Current poly count is 7328(Yes Im astonished too!)

Hope to hear your comments!

 

I'm not really surprised with that poly count. It still looks quite blocky, but i suppose that will be changed at the end

 

A new update guys!, Ive redone the actual balcony

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/6_1134304064.jpg]

And heres some more reference for anyone else modeling this place(taken from the DVD):

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/49_1134305016.jpg]

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/19_1134305046.jpg]

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/62_1134305107.jpg]

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/84_1134305184.jpg]

 

Heres another update guys!, ive added the small sets of doors at the side of the balcony entrance, please take no notice of the black thing behind the wall, thats a copy for experimenting

[image=http://www.450mb.com/quickupload/67_1134426079.jpg]

 

Ive Connected the balcony to the floor, all thats left is the stairs and more detailing, heres a screenshot

Edit: Fixed link