Vintage SciFi Robot

Piflik

A giant killer robot inspired by classic SciFi movies.


Highpoly (~4.5M Faces), rendered with SyncViews presentation shader.

C&Cs more than welcome.

Piflik

Added some additional energy-outlet between the tentacles.

SaferDan

I love this! How did you do the tentacles if you don't mind me asking?

Piflik

I started with a short, 24-sided cylinder and created one segment from it. then copied it a couple of times, welded the vertices and Path-Deformed the hell out of it and added Turbosmooth.

Here's a wire.

Joshflighter

Nice, very cool!

Stubbs

Nice! It kind of reminds me of War of the Worlds as well as that mech from The Incredibles. Nice work.

Piflik

Lowpoly and bake finished...textures are waiting...

12.800 tris, 2k maps (AO/Normals)

Lord McMutton

Pretty awesome. That's quite a lovely effect you've got there as well.

P442

now rig it LOL

Piflik

Glad you like it

I might even try and rig it, when the textures are done...doesn't seem too hard, too...

Here I have the first pass on the textures. Missing details.



3ds Max screengrab with dX Shaders.

There are some issues with alpha planes hiding the geometry behind them, but strangely only at certain places, or rather models (the toes are hidden, the feet are not, the legs are hidden by the upper part of the lower central beam only)...no Idea what this is caused by...