Car bits

referenced from Timeless Racer, Daniel Simon's new book, and some cool car wheels (lambo and peugeot i think)

Stealth Drone - x-47B study

I'm having a hard time with handling the shapes - the super simple angles vs. The complex compound, subtly curved surfaces are tricky.
I'm taking an in-depth go at this one to get a good feeling for how to translate the stealthy forms into poly modeling.

about 4 hours in

SLS fruit bowl

Smart Bomb, take 2

ruined my original file, so I started over and hit it harder

smartbomb start

tile experiments

Stealth Drone ideation

Drone surface bits

Landing gear, rear set

Cruise missile

Landing Gear for kitbashing

in 60 minute intervals

Horten-inspired flying wing

jettisonable rudder

Robot Hand

UAV VTOL

WWII strategic bomber

Hydroptere

muzzle brake

Hourglass

Oct 8 - Dynamics test

15 mins modeling, 5 mins assigning materials, 3 mins setting dynamics, 1h30mins render at 480p

Oct 6 - Softbody Cloth simulation

this took FOREVER
Modo's soft body simulation is definitely not up to par with say Softimage. It took A LOT of tweaking to get to this point. It feels like I could have modeled the cloth in the time it took to compute and figure out. I hope there will be an update when bullet physics 3 comes out (and gets integrated) with some better explanation and a proven process.

Oct 5 - 40mm Grenade

The materials are supposed to look like turned anodized metal. I think I'm headed in the right direction, a mixture of brushed texture and anisotropy ought to be the trick once I figure it out. I had a really hard time with having the graphics work. With reflective materials, the diffuse amount is usually 0, so having a texture layer set to diffuse color isn't going to do anything.