I wanted to improve on a design I made for my HMP03 asset pack which mostly features robotic limbs.
The one feature I was set on at start was the idea of a “hollow” motor, and that can be see in some of my recent designs - particularly my revisit of another design that has a similar mechanism I was able to make more elaborate.
Regular SubD modeling and some simple procedural shaders for the finish. I know SubD/polygon modeling is seen as a outdated workflow in some circles, but I really enjoy its simplicity and flexibility. This made it easy to take “completed” pieces and quickly reshape them into something new.
The timelapse below captures most of the process where I took an existing model from the asset pack and work it into a design I could extract new pieces from.
