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"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

Thanks mate. :)

I use modo for all my modelling and rendering as well as Photoshop and Illustrator where needed. I do use Maya, but only at work - it's too expensive to have at home!

I've updated my site with an 'Achievements' page. Just a bit of harmless 'willy-waving'! ;)

  • 04.18.2009 1:17 AM PDT

28, Architect ll Deviantart ll TWP(Formerly Halo 3 in the WorkPLace) - Assistant Director ll SIP ll OTK ll DMH

I've never heard of Modo, what company makes it? Do you take screenshots, embed them in the file and build the polygons from there or are you just doing the models by eye?

  • 04.18.2009 10:17 AM PDT

"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

Modo is made by Luxology. It started as a polygon and subdivision modeller, but each revision has added more to it (Version 2 added rendering, 3 added animation and sculpting). It's a very slick program, and is used by id software and Pixar among others. EVE in Wall-E was modelled entirely in modo, as was the ship that brought her to Earth at the beginning. Version 4 is out soon, and will add lots of improvements including fur.

I model most of my stuff by eye. For the warthog I have a small McFarlane model sat on my desk that I use as reference. I have not made a carbon copy of the original, as I like to put my own stamp on things. The rocket launcher was based on the weapon that came with one of my Master Chief figures, and the battle rifle reference is a master replicas model. Both of them were modelled by eye too.

  • 04.18.2009 11:08 AM PDT

"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

I've updated the site with a load of new photos (shot today) and some new renders of the Battle Rifle.

Hope you like!

  • 04.18.2009 3:42 PM PDT

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The battle rifle is looking great.

I'm not sure if it's done or not, but it's awesome.
It's a little too textured right now, in my opinion. But nonetheless great.

  • 04.18.2009 3:58 PM PDT

That... is one awesome website. You really put everything together so well, making it look lika the Title screen... You even made the Halo 3 Xbox 360 look cool!

  • 04.18.2009 4:58 PM PDT

"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

Thanks guys.

Hey! I LIKE my Halo 3 Xbox 360!!! ;)

  • 04.19.2009 5:05 AM PDT

"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

Another update to the site - finished the modelling of the Battle Rifle. Just need to add the newly designed grip to the UV, and then I can start painting.

New Battle Rifle Render

  • 04.20.2009 11:05 PM PDT

Deviant Art Profile
Home of all my wallpapers and photography.

Co-Founder of Team Pepto
Aesthetic Artist Interviews

Aberrant Designs

Dude, that BR is looking great!
Are you going to place it against a nifty background like you did with the rocket launchers?

It would totally be awesome if you did that, and made it High-Res for awesome-tastic wallpaper usage.

=P

  • 04.20.2009 11:09 PM PDT

"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

Thanks mate. Yeah, a high res one will be appearing soon! I'll possibly use a better background this time too.

  • 04.20.2009 11:58 PM PDT

Damn good stuff. Give this man a free suit of Mjolnir armour, and a cocktail.

  • 04.21.2009 4:39 AM PDT

28, Architect ll Deviantart ll TWP(Formerly Halo 3 in the WorkPLace) - Assistant Director ll SIP ll OTK ll DMH

The BR looks great!

I agree with Sanders, add a background or some crates, etc. That would be the icing on the cake.

  • 04.21.2009 7:29 AM PDT

"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

Thanks guys. :)

Here's a quick update. I originally unwrapped the whole rifle onto one UV map, but even with a 3k texture, the details were blurring and looked generally poop. I decided in the end to split the UV in two, one for the gunmetal parts and the other for the black plastic parts.

Here is a render of the first layer of the gunmetal texture map. I have added the base metal texture and the surface weathering. On top of this I overlayed a baked out ambient occlusion layer to give a bit of depth to the parts.

Apologies if you don't know what any of that means. I'm a CG-nerd...

The next stage will be to add dirt and scratches, which is the fun part! :)

Battle Rifle Update

  • 04.23.2009 2:11 PM PDT

"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...

A new update here...

Metal Texture Complete

  • 04.25.2009 12:26 AM PDT

The guns look great. In my opinion I think you should try and do some enemies, but not just ones already in Halo. Maybe Forerunner or updated copies of the original marathon enemies
Also the plastic on the battle rifle's a bit too neat

[Edited on 04.25.2009 4:49 AM PDT]

  • 04.25.2009 4:48 AM PDT

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