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Goodbye to another term.  The collector was definitely a project to remember for me.  I learned a lot about spaceships and their peculiarities and now I realize exactly how little I do know haha.  There's a lot more I wanted to do with this project that I hope I'll get around to in the future.

You can see the complete (for now) project here

Now to start practicing sketching cars and wait for paperwork from Mattel...they really are starting to worry me...

collector door open animation

Collector turntable bw

Collector rivets

It's almost there.  

The really nicely detailed astronaut model is by Max Grueter, free for download on his website, thanks!

Collector progress again

Added some decals, details, changed the nose a bunch...almost there.. 

Collector space test

Collector head/details

Collector top progress

Here is a stock modo courage model (slightly modified) for size comparison

Collector progress nose+bay details

Collector front model catchup

Adjusting proportions and adding new objects to match sketchover:

In photoshop I set the sketchover to 50% over the original model render.

In Modo/3DS/whatever, I have two viewports set up: one for modelling, one with the cameraview that I rendered and sketched over previously.  This way I can check the cameraview against the 50/50 reference image for consistency in real time.  Alot more accurate than eyeballing it and easier too.

Sketchover 50% over original model render

Revised model after matchup