That's right. Another dalek. What? Yeah I know I've done them before. What of it?? Is that a problem? Damn right it's not.
Okay, yeah, you have a point. I'm making a dalek, AGAIN. Well I really like daleks and I've had them on the brain lately. The last one I made was when I was at NMC so it's been a long time and I've learned a lot. I wanted to see what my current skills could do with a subject I'm very familiar with.
I had started one from the modern episodes but I couldn't stop thinking about the 'New Paradigm' design. I really like that design for some reason. I think I'm like one of five people on the planet that do. Ah well. So I immediately put it aside and began work on a 'New Paradigm' dalek.
Oh yeah! So this project is an oldie but it's also a first of sorts. This will be the first CG asset I've made that will be built in scale. Usually I just make stuff and eyeball it based on some reference pictures or something. For this I found dalek schematics (the internet is great) so this model will be accurate to the real thing. It will also be the proper size which is helpful for things like integrating it into live-action footage and such.
As usual the modeling stage is the slowest for me. Making sure everything is the right size and such takes even more time. I've built and rebuilt nearly every part so far but I'm getting the hang of it. I'm kind of working on it one section at a time from top to bottom and the dalek's dimensions and angles only get crazier as I go. Hopefully this doesn't slow me down too much and I have some good progress to show next time.
I guess that's it. Thanks for stopping by!
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