Toranaga Jan 14, 2015 10:33 pm
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Very good and fitting sounds! May I ask how you make them?

khesm Jan 15, 2015 12:11 am
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They are mostly made by editing and layering weapon and explosion sound samples. A heavily edited eagle scream is also used for the Assault Gun for adding the laser-like sound.

khesm Jan 16, 2015 2:44 am
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WIP Assault Gun:

khesm Jan 17, 2015 1:16 am
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More progress:

Sal Jan 20, 2015 6:59 pm
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It looks very teched-up, nice work!

Edit:

Please make it fire Grinning

khesm Jan 21, 2015 4:27 pm
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It will definitely get to fire, I have some crazy ideas for the final pic.

Quick render of a Fuel Storage:

Fuels Truck are made by Michael Skwierawski.

Sal Jan 21, 2015 6:09 pm
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You know khesm, there is something I really like about your pictures. They make "sense" and still the leave me enough room for my imagination. This feeling that there is more out there.

I.e. The Fuel Truck that comes off from the Oil Tank: They blue light coming out of the entrance, makes it looks like somekind of Connection-Station for the back of the Fuel Truck. Some coupling mechanism. I love it.

To nitpick a little: The fog / horizon looks a bit weird on the Oil Tank in the back ;D But for a quick render really great.

khesm Jan 22, 2015 12:53 am
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Thanks a lot Sal! What you describe is exactly what I am going for. It's great when you can study a pic and gradually figure out everything that's going on.

Engineer model:

The original design for this is very odd, not sure whether I like my interpretation.

khesm Jan 22, 2015 7:46 pm
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The previous iteration was bad at conveying scale(the Engineer is actually huge) and the overall look was too soft.
I made the shapes more defined, adjusted proportions and added lots of small scale detail to improve the sense of scale:

Sal Jan 22, 2015 8:34 pm
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It looks definitely bigger. Reminds me almost of the MAX Demo version of the engineer, its more teched up ( http://www.sal4.de/new2/MAX0046_mpworks.jpg )

The old status/ glass / lamps kinda got me, because it looked so much more important by the size and glow Grinning