A Work in Progress: Clockwork

This guide was made for entry:
Clockwork
In Contest:
mechanical 3D

step 1 of 7

If you have Blender 3D 2.65, creating a Gear is just a matter of one click. You may have to activate "Extra Objects" to make them. This can be found in the Preferences (Add Curve: Extra Objects) or download the free script at the link I provide below.

sources used for this step:

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step 2 of 7

So, I created a gear which I've modified a bit, to get something more personal than the standard ones. I just added a cylinder and some planes I put in the middle.

step 3 of 7

This is what a standard gear can look like:

step 4 of 7

To create my clockwork, I also created some metal pieces, which holds the different gears

step 5 of 7

And last, I wanted some screws, so I just create a cylinder with cube as boolean. As I just need the screw head, this is enough for my purpose.

step 6 of 7

For the material, I just created a bump map in photoshop (add noise filter, then motion blur) to get a brushed aluminum effect.

step 7 of 7

Finally, I put all in scene, and rendered with "Cycles Render".

Final result

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