10-21-2013, 09:51 PM
That really sucks Lyra :( My condolences. I hate loosing pets, it sucks so bad. The picture is beautiful :)
For hard surface stuff, I got a book called Mechanika which I copied each step of the drawings in there, then did my own and that seems to have helped a lot. Once you get your head around how to fake machine parts it gets a lot easier.
As for visual library there are only so many things that go into a machine part. There are servo's which are the things that power joints (a google search for servo motor works), pistons which are the muscles of machines basically, and joints (which has the most variety but are still fairly easy to summarise. Thats what I remember, but don't quote me, its been a while since I have looked at hard surface. Nothin but Mech is a good blog to go through for inspiration.
For hard surface stuff, I got a book called Mechanika which I copied each step of the drawings in there, then did my own and that seems to have helped a lot. Once you get your head around how to fake machine parts it gets a lot easier.
As for visual library there are only so many things that go into a machine part. There are servo's which are the things that power joints (a google search for servo motor works), pistons which are the muscles of machines basically, and joints (which has the most variety but are still fairly easy to summarise. Thats what I remember, but don't quote me, its been a while since I have looked at hard surface. Nothin but Mech is a good blog to go through for inspiration.