Part 1: Blockout

       Part 1: Blockout

    Starting work on the Siemens MRI Machine, getting a quick blockout of the scene just to get some early scale

UE5 Blockout

Part 4: Renders

        Part 4: Renders

    Sneak peak of the cinematic. And Plasticity renders.

UE5 Render

Final Plasticity Pass

M-777 Howitzer Ref Board

Part 3: Baking and Materials

       Part 3: Materials

    Finally getting back into it, for this part, I wanted to begin with my first bakes and textures, just to get a better feel of what the final model might look like.

Did some bevel shader baking from Marmoset to Painter, it came out pretty nice.

UE5 Render

Plasticity Progress

MMT Bevel Shader

M-777 Howitzer Ref Board

Part 2: Early Simulation

       Part 2: Early Sim

    Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, I am a bit behind on the model right now, I'm not worried as I will be compensating this loss for part3 . Thankfully, not all is lost, I made some progress in other areas. I created the early prototype for the firing simulation within Houdini. I plan to setup an entire animation within UE5 using the alembic pipeline.

M-777 Howitzer Ref Board

Part 1: Blockout

      Part 1: Blockout

    This project is significantly more difficult than the Hubble Telescope, so I really have to make sure my forms are strong from the start. By now, I'm pretty married to the CAD workflow, I've been able to model 3x quicker than I would even at full speed on Blender. By now my pipeline is near instant, I don't even have to export anymore.

UE5 Render

Plasticity Blockouts

Blender Scale

M-777 Howitzer Ref Board

Part 0: Planning out

       Part 0: Planning out

    Starting off the semester strong, for this project, I'm going to be creating the M-777 Howitzer.

1. Week one
- References 
- Block out
- Scale

2. Week two
- High-Poly
- Materials
- Early Environment

3. Week three
- UVs
- Final Materials

4. Week four
- Renders
- Animations

M-777 Howitzer Ref Board

Main Ref

Part 4: Final

        Part 4: Final

    Redid the texturing, and reduced the polycount by 2K via instancing the satellite solar panels, for a total of 23K. Got a much better bake after some troubleshooting.

UE5 Render

Tri-Count

UVs

Main Reference