Aircraft Engine

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My latest project, aircraft engine. I decided to make something complex, just for hardsurface practice.
AO renders with subdv wires of my latest hardsurface project. Hope you like it. I will be posting later Eevee renders with preview videos from Blender.

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More screens below:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XBrP6L

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Amazing work, excellent topo, clean and to the point render. Can’t wait to see what a substance pass would do to it.

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Well done, looks great

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grate work you get a vertices count? :rofl:

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Incredible patience to model that. How long did it take?

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@Veezen that’s some amazing work! I’m interested in the answers to the questions asked before. And I want to add my own inquiry: What’s your procedure for the cylinder ribs? Since they don’t have geometry, they get their depth from the material, right? How do you get this 3d look?

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Crazy complex, dude :open_mouth: I can’t imagine what kind of a mind it takes to model something like that

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Hey, Congratulations on finishing such a monumental task - This is PURE PORN to me.It looks like you got it all correct, my hat off to you. I have a half done one sitting in my pc for many years now - it is for my B-36h - also more than half done. I do have a rig for the engine - if your ever interested in a trade :wink: Really nice job though - I’m prob one of the few people who can truly appreciate what it takes to create this monster - getting refs is not too easy either. Just one small correction on your artstation page it’s 4360 - it’s the amount of cubic inches. Fantastic work !!!

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A lot! :smiley:
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It took me around 2-3 weeks to finish. I did that after work, so I didn’t worked on that every day. Maybe around 50-60h, just guessing.

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Those cylinders have geometry, but I decided to make renders of wireframe before boolean operation to avoid chaos in presentation. Wireframe was rendered as a second pass (render viewport -> flat viewport > black wireframe > white background) and combined in photoshop as a mask.

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Thanks! I tried to make everything correct, it wasn’t that easy as I thought at the start. A lot of references that I got were a different version of this engine (different production year), or engine was rotated with different details so I had to find common language from all different references that I got and created a model based on that.

That was my reference board:

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Thanks for pointing my mistake with engine name, just fixed it now :slight_smile:

I will maybe put this engine on Gumroad for reasonable price :slight_smile:

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Excellent work!

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Added to project new screen with cylinders after boolean operation :slight_smile:

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All you need now is Jet fuel :grin:

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I just posted EEVEE renders :> Damn I love that renderer soooo much, EEVEE is so easy to use! I published 2 videos showing around how scene was build. I did some compositing inside Blender for renders.

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https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RY2lZD

Thanks everyone for good words :slight_smile: I’m happy that you like it.

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sweet damn! I would love to get the work file on this to learn from!

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Now, the challenge is to dirty it up with oil leaks, scratches, rust…
Then you just go online and sell it :grin:

But don’t forget the AVGAS!!!
Because you promised us an animation of it ! (with moving parts please ???) :grinning:

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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Thank you, that is so cool :slight_smile: