Tech Wear (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

This prompt for the contest was rather tough for me. As a hermit CG artist, I'm very much a stereotypical fashion black hole, so designing an outfit is very much a step out of the comfort zone.

So I went with creating something that I purely thought looked cool.

My reference board:
(I didn't read the rules before starting, so I was gonna make a runway originally.)


This project I'm using an original character of mine. I can spend more time focusing on just creating the clothing.


Started with a low side count circle.


Extruded and wrapped around the leg


Added a couple loop cuts and closed off the toes


Added more loop cuts


Used a couple modifiers here
Subdivision: to add more verts
Shrinkwrap: uses those extra verts to  properly wrap around the body mesh.
Mirror: Copies the work to the other side


Got yourself a over the knee set of socks.


Started work on the shorts. Was using the shrinkwrap modifier here while in edit mode. Tried to keep square faces in mind while working. Mirrored of course
to save myself some work.


Subdivided and Shrinkwrapped. I set the shrinkwrap to be .05" away from the surface of the body mesh


Same work as the shorts above


Added a half skirt around the outside of her right hip. I noticed that I made something like this for an earlier contest entry.


Started making pockets. These are shrinkwrapped to the outside of the shorts.


The for the pockets I used a Solidify modifier and a bevel modifier to smooth out the edges.

Started work on the snap buckle.


I kept on moving verts around till I thought it looked cool. The blue lines are edge marks for beveling and the red ones are seams for UV Unwrapping. Again used a mirror modifier.


Started work on the connector piece

Added a Path Curve for the belt itself.



For the belt loops, I started with a  simple cube with an array modifier to duplicate itself. Added a curve modifier to have it follow the Belt curve that I made earlier.


The loops are rather simple in design. Just a couple loops moved outward on it's local Z axis. Bevel modifier for the rounded off edges.


Stole this buckle from and IFAK medical pouch that I made on another project.


The buckle needs a strap so I started on that. Decided to not use a curve here. Just some traditional polygon editing.


I just had to make a flat plane and extruded it with the solidify modifier.


Start of a metal loop.


Flat plane > Solidify> Bevel edges.


The loop had to be attached to the shorts some how.


Started on a latch hook with this basic shape


Extruded out.


Added a simple closing mechanism


The closing mechanism needed a something to hinge around.


Added a metal loop to swivel around the little extruded bit.


Went and attached it to the earlier made loop.


The metal loop needed something to dangle from it.


And the strap needed to end somewhere and here's another loop to help with that.


Fitted the loop to the bottom of the strap


Duplicated and Copied the closing hooks down the the lower metal loop.


This strap I used curves as it would be tons quicker over using poly editing.


More loops around the strap!

Wow, sexy and detailed

Started working on her boots.

Snagged a boot tread image off of google and lined it up under her foot.


Traced around the outside to get a crossection of the future boot..


Started work on some boot treads with a simple cube.


Cut some shapes into the cube. Give it a little detail.


Duplicate the tread around the border


Making heel tread


Inner cross tread


Starting the toe treads


Bringing the sole down. Making the foot arch


Extruding the sole upward to make the foot cover.


Sculpting the top of the boot top


Extruding the side wall of the boots. I assigned the verticies to the vertex group and applied that group to a Shrinkmap Modifier.


Applied the Shrinkwrap modifier and smoothed out the verts with the Slide relax brush.


Started building the toe cap for the boot


Applied the Solidify modifier


Making the heel cover


Gotta be able to close up the boots so started out with a cube


Duplicated it up the boot


Started on creating the end point for the straps


Made a pull tab for the straps


Thought I wanted to do spikes.


Didn't like the spikes. Here using curves to make a shoelace like band.


Duplicated the bands up the boot and changed the look of the caps?(not sure what to call it)


Mad the actual straps themselves to connect to the pull tab.


Removed some material from the boot that sat underneath another flap of material. When UV Unwrapping later it will save some texture space.


UV Unwrapped the boot. Checked nothing was being stretched with a color grid material.

Imported the boots into substance painter. Nice change of pace from modeling.


Started first on the straps themselves


I went through a couple materials. I went with a mesh and simple faux leather texture.


Painted on some stitching detail.


Added a couple more details and this is the finished material


A rendered viewport look at the boots.


Brought socks into Substance painter.


Added a simple material, drew a seam called it a day


In a lot of the reference material for Tech wear the people would be wearing masks, so I started with a mirrored plane!


Wrapped the mask around the face. Removed the hair since it was causing viewport performance to drop


Subdivision modifier and Solidify modifier


Extruded out faces to make the elastic band


Slipped the strap behind the ear


Applied the Mirror and Uv Unwrapped the whole thing


Started to apply modifiers and join the meshes


With the modifiers applied, I went and Uv Unwrapped the mesh. I also suffered a blender crash that removed all the Blue weight painting on the edges when recovering the autosave. Weird bug.

The starting mesh for the Hoodie/Vest


The hoodie part


A couple more edge loops later


Solidify and Bevel


Buckle for the hoodie chest strap.


Added an extra loop


and the other connecting half of the buckle.


More curves for the straps


Added a little flap on one side of the hoodie


Simple start to the jacket


Solidify, Subdivision and bevel


filled in the arm holes. Saves texture space for later


Sculpted in some detail. Didn't have any screenshots from when I was making the shoulder strap and pockets.


Simple loop build


Wireframe modifier and Bevel for the shape


Making a hook system for the jacket to close


The Hooks are instanced so that and change made to one will affect another. I duplicated them up and down the jacket.


Added an extra flap. Keeps the metal from touching the character.


The hooks have to hook on something.


Fitting the pieces together


Moved the button to the other side and instanced them down the jacket with spacing similar to the hooks


Transferred the strap and buckle from the shorts to the jacket pocket.


Made the pocket buckle fit and copied it to the other side with the Mirror Modifier


Added an extra flap to the neck cover


Solidify and Bevel again...


Marked the seams


Unwrapped all the jacket parts. Ready for texturing!

Checked for any stretching


Unwrapped the shorts


Unwrapped the hoodie


Brought it all into substance painter!


Started on the cloth mask first.


Added stitching and some metal pins



Added more stitching this time for design!


Tried a couple designs.


Exported the textures to test with the character.


After trying a bunch, went with this color scheme.


This was a pain to get through. I went though what felt like 100s of material combinations and colors and arrived here:


With the colors decided. I painted on the details to the undershirt. Adding wrinkles and the raised edges.


Added some detail. Metal bits, stitching, wrinkles, and more raised edges.


Exported the textures to do a test in blender with the character.


I enjoy texturing quite a bit and got too into it. Forgot to take screenshots. Here's the final look on the shorts.


This was the final look for the Jacket. The colors weren't fully decided though


This is where I am at now. Still trying out a couple color combos.

Love the outfit so far! And thank you for illustrating some of the workflow. It's nice to see how other people approach the task of making clothing

The final color choice. The white color to help the outfit pop!


With the colors decided, I had to do the weight painting. Constant checking with several poses to make sure there's minimal clipping.


Imported the free runway scene for the contest. Its not to scale, so I had to scale it up a bit.


Making steel girders to hold up the lights. Starts with a simple plane.



The smaller support bars are just simple cylinders. but this is the final mesh for the girder.


Stacked the steel girders with an array modifier. Also started on making some wall art. A simple plane with a bunch of knife tool cuts.



Material test for the polygonal wall art.


Solidified  a couple characteres to catch some light on the edges. Mostly to more easily discern specific shapes



What the steel girder array looks like outside the camera



More extruded curves for some small decorative railing

And simple cylinders for the columns

Wanted to make my own stage lights so this is my references


simple cube to start


elongated and beveled


Cut in a channel and raise the border



Lens

Not sure what this is called.


Hinges for the coming flaps


Aforementioned flaps, simple shapes extruded and beveled


rotating hinge action


Not sure what this part is for but its in the reference material


I can't actually see what is behind the flaps so I feel like something needs to connect and control them.







Really not super accurate to what the real world stage light would be, but should work as background decor


something to hold it up


Plugs and buttons to control the light.


Metal bolt for mounting


Start of the mounting mechanism



closing hinge for adjusting



twirly bolt to close the arm

starting shape for the knob



Test mounting.

UV unwrapping the light


 imported into spainter


Back panel IO


Painted on the fresnel lens


Material test in cycles lighting


Mounting the lights into their final positions

Volume added for scene depth


Volume test and you can barely see those lights...


Final shot comp!

My submission into the contest!


Another fun contest! Thank you RenderHub for holding the contest and Foxy3D for hosting!

I probably would have never made an outfit like this otherwise and missed out on making something so cool!
Can't wait to see more entries come flooding in during this final month!

Very cool
Thanks for sharing your workflow. 
Starting to make a little more sense after playing with blender. 
Love the volume in your final render looks great. 

Super cool looking outfit, awesome work.
Would love to see it in the marketplace

Good luck with your entry

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great workflow - it is similar to my

I'm glad you got out of your comfort zone.  This could help others.  It's already helped me.  Respect.

My respect for the work done.
I understand how hard it is to work with clothes. The creases are just a headache for me.

Congratulations on taking SECOND PLACE in the contest! Great work.
Someone will be in contact with you soon regarding the prizes.

Thanks for participating in the contest.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!