Arachnid warrior bug

re.wind

got inspired a bit, crawled the web and original film for references, and got to here.


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(3dmax patch)


(sculptris, oh how i love it)



(3dmax render of the same)

sculptris model is 144'166 triangles, i could probably easily double that, but this is ony my my first more serious models so i want to keep the mesh as clean as possible.


1997 Starship troopers film reference, one of the better ones i could find, and as far as i can tell from watching the bugs in the film, i'd say that is the actual model. i have taken some liberties, yes, but i'm tempted to 'correct' them according to these. y/n? The actual design of the bug varies greatly between each film, series, games, and physical model, yet i'm tempted to stay as loyal to the original as possible.

Cheese_Shinobi

Nice work, but I think you should add some more detail on the carapace.

re.wind

Worked on the leg a bit. I tend to be too stingy with the triangles, hence some of the dodgy details.

re.wind

First full assemblage of the warrior bug. 2'000'000.0 triangles. Lots of stuff to do still, but i'm very pleased with myself

JarlanPerez

haha the good old days. Nice subject. I know it's still a WIP but your nailing so far. It's looking great.

re.wind

thanks. I think I have the general shape and most details correct, now it's just fixing the pointy legs and adding more detail.

NothingHappens

For the legs :
The front ones are almost the good size. Except the extremity. You made it too short, normally they are like ⅔ longer.
The rear ones are totally about 3 or even 4 times bigger.

Same thing for the beak, I re-watched the movies about a month ago and, for me, the beak is something like as long as the "head".

But that's an awesome work, even with the dimension problem.

Chris2027

This is absolutely amazing... this has to be the best modeled Warrior I've ever seen... how is it on render time?

konstruct

pretty sweet- although the arms seem much too small. Bit of a T-rex vibe :P. maybe this isnt the best ref, but the arms on this render seem to fill out the volumes a tad better

this shot from the movie do show the arms being quite a bit smaller- but the relationship between the beak- rear head, and arms still need some tweaking.

DaveSilver

This is so awesome. I've always loved the designs in Starship Troopers and thought it would be a hugely fun project to work on. Keep going man.

Sean VanGorder

NECRROOOOOOOO POST.


I do love me some Starship Troopers though.