Bumblebee High Res Fan Art

Bumblebee High Res Model

References and Details

Finding references for him was a challenge. I ended up primarily using toys as reference as they provided many different angles as opposed to the movie stills. 

Comparisons

Subdivided Model vs Unsmoothed Wireframe 

Subdivision Modeling

Modeling him was a challenge as this character has many curved parts and panels which need to align to each other. I optimised the topology for the curves while maintaining the hard edges with supporting edge loops where necessary.

UV Layout and Texturing

UV layout was done in Maya, totalling up to around 80 4k UDIMs. The large number of UDIMs helped me to achieve my desired texel density. 

Texturing and material work was done in Substance Painter. In order for substance painter to be able to handle the highpoly and udim count I had to split the project into multiple files. After creating my own templates for the various materials it was easy to port the materials over to my multiple files. I used the same HDRI in Substance and Maya, giving me similar lighting in both programs. This greatly assisted me in the lookdev process.

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