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A continuation of my contribution for CH-47 Chinook Helicopter ‘Extreme’.
I started it with a polygon cylinder then extrude mesh for the main part of the engine. On the wirings, I used EP Curve tool in maya and Nurbs circle (Will probably make a simple blog tutorial for it). After creating more details, I did UV and texturing. Some of the small parts on the middle of the engine are textured.
Here are the screen progress of CH-47 Engine in first version …
Here’s my contribution as PerspectX Goes Extreme. I’ve been given the task to model and uv/texture the Rotors of the said aircraft. This particular helicopter has a twin-engine, tandem rotor. The internet provided many references I needed to model the rotor as close to accurate as possible.
Here’s a reference pic showing the rotor head close-up:
And here’s an exploded diagram of the different components:
With these references pictures guiding me as to how the rotor looks …
As we all know, Object Parenting is definitely important in the aspect of animation, because before you create an animation, everything must be arranged in their appropriate places. Here’s a simple overview of what I’m trying to impose.
PARENT – is considered as the main object of the model
CHILD – is considered as a sub-object of the model
The image below shows a 3d model of our CRJ-700 Airplane. This model doesn’t have parent/child settings. So first thing to do is define …
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