sketch of the ideas

basic shapes and some nurbs (r)

modified a text object with some extrusions and some sweep nurbs (e)

modeled this using the cloth dresser (E)

a few splines extruded to make this (Z)

model by Tristan Gruet, downloaded from pixellab (O)

modeled this using the sweep nurbs, a corn and a tube

2 layers of color, the one outside has a mask to create the illusion of rust, the legs are just pictures of metal after some Photoshop tweaking

incase your wondering what lens i used here, it was a 36mm for this and the weird hourglass thing. the rest where done with a 50mm

basic 100% reflections and some noise

the idea of having this "N" pencil pop out of the letterbox crop was an accident that worked !

 

the rubber is a cylinder with a red, some noise and masked reflections, the reflections are subtle because i wanted it not to look so new thought at the same time not very old

 

here i used the same metal image from the "e" legs, a white texture with some noise  for the back side and the cloth pattern inside is from GSG (i modified it ovcos) , i think ,not very sure

 

this shot was inspired by GRAVITY (don't start comparing, mine is nowhere near that of gravity)

i used some SSS on the crank, the rest is pretty much the same process , i just eyeball them until am happy with the results

 

the crank toy

here, i used some material from GSG but modified them a little.

i don't know what this is .. it was supposed to be an hourglass, i got bored with it so i turned into this THING

"o" closing in

it all comes together to make this

disintegration