Tools: Maya, Substance Painter
Small Boiler - 3D model by Nick Searle (@nick-searle)
This model was my first go at creating stylized assets, and was very, very heavily influenced by Howl’s Moving Castle. I really loved the idea of living or anthropomorphic machinery, and that played into the design of this boiler. I shaped the grate on the front of it like a big, grinning mouth, and then built eyes out of a valve and steam gauge. I also gave it short, stubby brass legs reminiscent of Oswald.
Mesh at 1,467 triangles.