Tuss4's Take on Iron Man

[Tuss4]

the body is still in blob form, but i put in the last details on the head, reworked some of my renders, as you can see MR is the shiznit:

[Sathe]

Sweet work on the head dude! The only thing i notice is the top golden rivet is a bit stretch just drag that back into a circular shape and your set!

btw, may i ask what HDR is that your using?

[Robbert543]

Originally Posted by Sathe

...btw, may i ask what HDR is that your using?

I know dude- it looks awesome.

@topic:

Sweeeet!
I have one question, and a crit-thingie.
my crit is: on his 'ear', that rounded 'bar' you extruded inwards seems like it doesn't stay straight all the way. I hadn't noticed this before, this might be just because of the reflections, but check it, pretty please?

and my question:
How do you start an Iron Man!
like.. how do you know you have the right angles, right shapes etc?
you just look at pictures and make it, or do you start the way you would with a car, and actually use the blueprints in the modeling?

Robbert.

[Tuss4]

@Sathe: thanks man, Yeah I gotta fix that rivet. The HDR, is a Dosch Design. I can't remember the number right now. I will pass it to you later.

@Robert: you have to look for really good refs man, I mean really good, and make makeshift blueprints, also Sathe's thread has some awesome refs, so if you use those it will definitely be easier. The ear bar, is just the reflections, got to fix something on the wires lol.

[Tuss4]

here we go the HDR is: DH205SX.hdr

[Tuss4]

fixed the rivet issue, and sorta fixed the ear bar, now I want to concentrate on the body, here is another color scheme for you:

[Sathe]

Yeh thats much better, the rivets are a pain in the ass aren't they tuss :P

[Tuss4]

You got that right~!

[Tuss4]

progress screenshot

[Tuss4]

update:

[Sathe]

Be careful with the chestpiece tuss. I think you have prematurely cut the Rib insets out. First analyze where all the hard edges must lie on the curved surfaces and double check that its smooth prior to adding the edges.
Trust me on this, i made the wrong mistake of taking this road for the chest piece and ended up spending an hour tweaking verts because of it. The Rib cage is more round than you think
Keep powering through dude
/.G

[Tuss4]

Yup you are right, thank you for the advice man! Always appreciated! Thank God, I didn't start chamfering yet!

[Sathe]

Ive been saying this alot lately, but don't use chamfer, its evil, use the connect tool instead and slide edges next to each other, it is far easier to control termination points and you can easily create very hard edges.

Here is an example i have made to show people. Sorry for the images size.

[Tuss4]

is there anything you can't do?

[Sathe]

Yeh dude...Sleep.