Jumper Mech

wester

Starting to beef up my portfolio with this Jumper Mech I found on cghub.com.

Here's the concept by the amazing Soren Bendt Pedersen. I really love his concepts and visual language.

http://cghub.com/images/view/138398/

Here's my blockout.



LATEST UPDATE!

wester

Update.

Upper body and feet are still blockouts. Just fleshed out the legs at the moment.

Ged

coming along nicely

dogzer

I love this mech, I want to make one myself now!

this mech would fit in great in hawkens btw!

Cheers!

mystichobo

Looking like a good start!

I would seriously rework the legs though, they look really thin and flimsy, imo they need to be more beefy, as in the concept.

wester

It absolutely looks like it could be in hawkens! I think that's why i wanted to make it. Love the design and atmosphere of that whole world!

Thanks guys. Yeah I'll have to do some beefing up of the legs. I'm actually seeing a lot of proportion issues the more i look at it.

Mark Dygert

Cool stuff, I really like the details, not too noisy and the forms read well, and it looks like the legs would be functional.

SouthpawSid

snap dizzle Wes dawg. Looking hawt.

woogity

looking really good so far! the details are coming out awesome, but i think the overall proportions are a bit off from the concept, the last segment of the leg before the foot, looks a bit shorter in the concept and the feet look a decent bit bigger, might want to take another look. like i said tho the details are coming out ace!


-woog

wester

Alittle bit of an update. Finished up the legs, adjusted the proportions and beefed up that knee joint and feet. Still have some proportion issues but i'm just going to wait until the bake to adjust them.

I'm liking how it's coming together for sure. I can't wait to get to the texturing on this guy.



enjoy!

nfrrtycmplx

Enjoy...

I did...

I want more and more and more of this one...

Thanks for sharing!

Jesse Moody

ahh those legs look very inspired by the AT-ST... I LIKE IT

dogzer

looks very functional!

n88tr

planning on adding any weapons?

wester

Jesse: Yeah I used the at st as reference for the back detail on the leg. It's pretty safe to say you'll find something star wars in everything i do haha.

N88tr: I'd like to, but my concepting skills aren't very strong. I'll ask the guy who concepted this mech to see if he has anytime to create a weapons attachment for it.

Thanks for the love guys! Glad everyone's really liking it.

G3L

Dunno why it reminds me of those walking leg mechs from MGS4.

I do agree with not too noisy on the details for the mech. The needed detail is there for it Can't wait to see the texturing on it!

wester

Added some detail to the gun attachment device on teh front of the mech. That was actually alot of fun to make.

BelgianBoolean

Absolutely brilliant mate! Do you plan on texturing him?

wester

Yessir. Doing a game rez model. Thanks!

StrongRum

This is looking really sweet!

Stinger88

Nice. Im currently considering starting a bi-ped mech to get some hard surface stuff done for a change. Very inpiring.

woogity

lookin pretty slick man!

wester

Finished up the Highpoly this weekend. Took a break from it for a couple weeks to work on some soft surface sculpting, but getting back into it. Going to start the lowpoly tonight.

Jeremy Wright

Great work!

TylerFluharty

Awesome work, really looking forward to the low poly and map bakes.

wester

Thanks guys! I finished the Low poly and about 90% done with the unwrap.

I really want one of the animators at work to take a run with him, i can see some pretty awesome animations coming from this guy. Like a hover idle, or walk cycle. Just something small and fun.

I'll post up the Lowpoly shots this week.

igi

Your stuff makes me want to do something similar to this. Awesome-looking mech!

dtschultz

Awesome work, man. Can't wait to see the rest. I might be slow, but what are the vented boxes on the sides at the top of the mech?

MiAlx

Nice work dude, love it! Looking forward to the rest as well

Lazerus Reborn

Very very nice. Been waiting for you to finish this ;D

Lonewolf

looks pretty cool

wester

Baked and ready for texturing. Sorry for such harsh black shadows. It's rendered in 3ds max so those will go away on the final render when i put it in UDK.

wester

Oh yeah details hah.

Tri count= 12,285
Texture size= 2048

makecg

looking pretty PRO right now. keep it up

Daven

Psh, give it up. No talent whatsoever...

n88tr

needs a gun
any gun just something to go pew pew

wester

Still WIP. Taking another pass at the texture, going to add more dirt towards the feet, more blast marks in the back of the engines, and more decals overall.

Enjoy

Jessica Dinh

whooaaa, niiiice

sneakymcfox

Looks really great but the colour seems a little light and pastel to me which looks to be hiding a lot of the detail in the texture, maybe a darker paint colour so you can see the scratches ect?

nizu

Gorgeous model !

i agree with Sneakymcfox about scratches and paint being too similar in color.
Darker paint , or maybe an halo of primer coat between the 2? (but that's always hard to do without messing up and making it all less realistic and painterly)
I'll follow the next steps of texturing with interest..

wester

Finally calling him done. Time to pick up and move on! I'm going to give him a pose and stuff tomorrow, debating on if i should do a pedestal or not.

Enjoy!

Mr Smo

awesome work ! great end result, but I think the feet could use abit more surface damage or maybe a darker mess

killnpc

Nice work.

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Ihazard

this is really good, I think you could do a lot more with the texture though, maybe some sort of digitalized camo and a few more colours would do it wonders great job!

fearian

aye, I think some hue variation would make the texture pop; It's overly uniform at the moment. Lovely bake and model! congrats!

wester

Here we go. Decided to give him a base. Going to call him done! As soon as i install a screen capture program I'm going to render out a turntable.

Hope you enjoy

Valandar

Okay, that is some cool presentation - I really like the polycount and texture size on the "highway sign" on its base!

Ged

beautiful finish, perhaps a little too desaturated to see the detail though.

Gusti

Excellent man! I really dig this and it makes me want to play Mechwarrior II again

I really like the desaturated look. Personally I find it more realistic than too much color being used.
It kinda gives it that mid-afternoon in the city smog feel, which really suits the models base and its color scheme.

Rock on with your bad self sir, rock on!

Xoliul

Cool, I'd try to get a bit more contrast in your image though, If it's UDk try using the cinematic tonemapper in post processing.
Also, perhaps my personal preference, but I'd have added some more decals and signs to it, perhaps even a bold color with a unit logo or something..