Modeling

This week I haven't been feeling too well and feeling low, so I'm keeping my head down and work. I'm not going to write much this week. I'm going to post screenshots of the progress I made during the week. Each day will have a screenshot(s) from the morning as I start and the second will be a screenshot before I finish for the day.

Note: The first screenshot of the 4th is where I finished off from last week after faffing around (and restarting it) for two and half days trying to sort out the main body and making sure that it looks right. I did end up moving single edges to try and get the form right.

Note: I also decided instead of modeling one side and then the other, I decided to model one side then mirror it - as it saves way more time and makes sure it's the same

Monday 4th June: 

Morning 

Afternoon

Note: As you can see, I made the outer wings and the wing sections that connect to the main wings and the body separate - This will give me more control with the shape. Learning from my mistakes from the first model and learning from analyzing the other artist models. 

Tuesday 5th June

Morning

Afternoon

Wednesday 6th June

Morning

Afternoon

I'm not happy with the wings. I've added too much geometry (which is far from clean) thus made it extremely hard to edit and change the shape. I'm gonna restart it as the wings are way too thick for a Spitfire. Tomorrow I'm gonna keep it clean and simple, get the right form then edit to the right shape and the way it needs to look like. 

Thursday 7th June

Note: I got really huffy with the front side of the wings yesterday, so I restarted it. Also I only just done screenshots from the afternoon as I only worked on the wings. I used a cube and added a lot of edge loops and then moved the edges to the round shape. I finished editing the section connecting the wings to the body. I've now connected them to make sure all of it flows right. 

Friday 8th June

Saturday 9th June

Today I took a break from the Spitfire and created a turntable for the Spitfire as ideally, I want to have a turntable video for the show. I created, baked and textured within a day. 

Sunday 10th July

I think I may edit or even redo the wings for the Spitfire. I took a render in Substance Designer (with the turntable as I wanted to test the turntable stand) and I wasn't happy with the form

Test render:

As seen illustrated below with the red lines, this is roughly how it should go. I'm gonna spend today trying to edit this section.