This is my model so far. I'm not sure whether this meets the 50 % goal. It's still a lot of work since it's at least for my skill level a very complicated task. Any suggestions how to accomplish this and additional reference images are welcome.
The 50% requirement is more an ambiguous measurement of progress than mathematical completeness. Mostly I use it to judge "Did this person make significant progress since last time."
In your case, you shot out of the gate early and made tremendous progress from the start. So you we're like 75% done last time, just needing to optimize everything down to a useable state. All that to say yes, you're at least 50% done in my book.
Thanks, Kent, for these encouraging words 🙂. Do you have any recommendations on how to further refine the shape and ensure a clean polygon flow? I know that this is certainly not to answer with a few sentences since the axles are very complex, but I was wondering wether sculpting and final retopology would help to accomplish this as you did in your courses of the game character robot or the SciFi helmet?
Since I didn't manage to clean the topology in some parts just in time for the assignment #3, here a quick update on what I've cleaned up so far:
duerer The screen-right mesh is top-notch! The smaller piece on the left has some funky topology..
