Robot priest/wanderer/sniper/hunchback

Snefer

Been doing too much modular environments lately! So here is some therapeutic bevels! Im trying out concepting in zbrush a bit, im also doing a full body concept, which i will post when it looks less retarded and more like something cool! Anyway, here is the doodleconcept and the semi-bevelled face!

Clark Coots

yay hard surface fun! cant wait to see more

Snefer

Some more, after two hours of streaming The video of me modelling is up at
http://www.livestream.com/snefer
Kind of boring to watch in real-time speed, and low quality, but still : D

Seirei

Very cool design! Will you make this into a complete character?

Joshflighter

Oh! This is turning out nicely!

Clark Coots

looking good, chugging away. I watched some of the modeling video. It looks like you're using some custom hotkeys. Any special tips you have for modeling in Modo? how much of your workflow are custom hotkeys/scripts?

Do you ever post on the Luxology Forums? I dont think I've seen you over there. You should come over if you dont! It would be awesome to have some more amazing Game Artists using Modo on those forums!

Snefer

seirei: that is the plan, well see if i can avoid getting tired of it :P
coots7: yeah, i have tons of custom hotkeys and scripts, i would say almost everything i do is with hotkeys or scripts : )) No, i havent been over to the luxology forums actually, huh : ))

Alberto Rdrgz

some of your edges/shapes look pretty tight support edge wise, i would widen them up a bit and relax them. the design looks cool i wanna see more.

Snefer

yeah, some of the edges are still 100% edgeweight and have no support edges at all at the moment : ))

dpaynter26

:O Someone Using MODO :D:D:D Im So Glad You Posted This! I just started learning modo on the side, i'm a maya user, I really enjoy modo so far though! this is inspirational

EDIT:

how do you do the "smooth preview"?

Tea Monster

Man, that is some sexy stuff there. Looking forward to how this turns out.

Snefer

dpaynter: modo is the shit! Just press tab to go into sub-d mode : ))

also, you should download senecas scripts if you dont already have them : )
http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=52061

Mark Dygert

Looking awesome so far, I can't wait to see more.

erroldynamic

Awesome. I like where this is going, some nice shapes so far.

EiGHT

GAWD BLESS!

I fkn miss hard-surface stuff like this!

You are under surveillance.

dpaynter26

hey man i sent you a pm with a few modo questions:)

Snefer

bleep bloop bloop zoom zoom. tiny update cause im such a thread-bumper.

dpaynter26

so pretty, i wish i could find something like this to model but i dont know where to start, i want to start with something similar but small ya know? and i have a horrible imagination lol

dpaynter26

i have just recently discovered conceptroot.com though AMAZING!, Grats snefer it looks great

Lonewolf

u suck
just quit.

paulsvoboda

Looking awesome so far. Some really nice shapes - are you just pulling the zBrush concept and modeling over it, or just using it as reference image/practice?

ZacD

I like where this is headed, do you ever stop working?

Lonewolf wrote: »

u suck
just quit.

You're pretty terribad yourself, you should just go jump off a bridge instead of making our eyes bleed from your horrible weapons.

Snefer

dpaynter26: thanks : )) Yeah, if you have no imagination, just go with someone elses concepts for now. check out paul richards quake 4 stuff at autodestruct.com for example.

Lonewolf, go sculpt your guns! : D

paulsvoboda: Thanks, was afraid the shapes were too conservative on the face, but i hope itll work. pulled the decimated concept into modo and drew out polygons over it : ))
ZacD: thanks, hmm, no not really

Snefer

Some bevels, some rendering.

XRevan23

wow very inspirational work

Clark Coots

awesome progress! whats your render set up? and you should realllly post this over on the luxology forums too, Modo folks would love to see it!

moof

neat modeling man; concept soon?

Joshflighter

Sex.

I mean...

Sexy!

Now tell us how you rendered that beast!

EiGHT

Holy crap man!

Wow that render is juicy!

Seirei

Is it weird that I just someone want to touch it? o.0

dpaynter26

God it's beautiful :P lol

Snefer

moof: dont try to make my pipeline seem sensible! xD But yes, concept for the body is still in the horrible stages

the render is just simple GI-render in modo actually,really nothing special, one of the preset backgrounds etc. Drag-drop, done. No additional lights, the material is just a basic color with like 5& reflection.

dpaynter26

im just talking about the mesh lol, btw thanks for the tip for looking at autodestruct.com i found a few things i wanna make Gonna keep up with making 1 piece a week and setting out to learn something from that piece like you said i cant wait to see this finished

Goten-trunk

awesome model,looks amazing

PogoP

I don't get it. What is it? Looks like good subd modeling, but I'm a bit confused as to what it is?

Kurry

Ugh why do I want to do illegal stuff with everything you create Snefer

Can't wait to see where you taking this!

artquest

wow looks awesome. Any chance we get some wire-frames of this beasty? I'd like to see how you handled what to make one piece and what to combine. Again, amazing work. Can't wait to see the rest of this character.

dtschultz

Looks awesome, man. The only thing really bugging me are the bright spots on the reflective metal parts. It makes it look like your edges are aliased or something, imo. Are you using Modo's renderer? I seem to remember having issues with that back when I used Modo more. I seem to remember you had to play with the refinement rate in the render shader to get rid of that. It's been awhile since I've played with it though.

Is there anyway to watch the live streams after the fact? I can't seem to get them to play. I would love to check them out. I bought the Modo upgrade since they had a sale for early adopters of Modo, so I'd like to try and get back into it, and watching your vids would be helpful.

Eoq

Keep them bevels coming! : )

Snefer

PogoP: well, its a robot face, like I wrote :P
dtschultz: yeah, its because of the AA-algorithm, combined with few AA samples, and very contrasty reflections. The live streams should be there on my stream, just click them : ))

soo, doodling on the body, starting to like the upper torso a bit, the arms and legs are still very much up in the air, im gonna try to scrap the legs altogether and try another variant aswell, hm hmmm...

Nix

Man that looks great. If you're gonna keep up the level of detail in the rest of the body as you did in the head, this is gonna be pretty spectacular.

Computron

Watching your stream has me confused.

You keep highlighting groups of polygons and with one keystroke their edges are hardened, and somehow their corners as well. Im pretty sure I saw you perform some impossible bevels and edgeloops that would seemingly fuck up other parts of your model. It looks like you add pentagons and triangles all over the place.

You model like you don't even care about topology, like its not even a concern.

BUT then you hit tab, and voila!

WTF, i'm envious. :poly118:

Snefer

Nix: thats the plan, well see how it works out : ))

Computron: Yeah, I never care about topology as long as it looks good when smoothed Alot of the hardening stuff was with subdivision-weighting : )) Its modo, aaah yeah!

Boozekitty

Very impressive work. You have an eye for form.

Clark Coots

do you use PSub or normal SubD? if you do weighting with PSub how did you model before 501? Still edge weighting with normal subD?

dtschultz

Snefer wrote: »

PogoP: well, its a robot face, like I wrote :P
dtschultz: yeah, its because of the AA-algorithm, combined with few AA samples, and very contrasty reflections. The live streams should be there on my stream, just click them : ))

Hah! Yeah, sorry. Now they are working for me.

Snefer

Did another hour of streaming, built this spine here. The flap-thingys can animate and rotate around a bit.

Snefer

Oh, and I streamed building the spine aswell. Too bad you cant speed up these vids afterwards, kind of boring at normalspeed, but ahwell:

http://www.livestream.com/snefer/

oh, also the first three minutes are me fiddling with music and stuff xD couldnt get music working : /

dpaynter26

One of these days i swear im going to actually catch the live stream lol, that spine is really cool looking, did you just make that up as you went or what?

Edit:
you should have livestream play your music when you're recording so we have music to go along with the awesome modeling

igi

This is beyond awesome and is a pleasure to watch!While looking at the spine model I even couldn't think about the amount of detail you going to have on the finished model.It would be hard to bake down since you got really crazy small details.But dunno you're the pro

I should consider the edge weighting stuff in modo. Apparently it looks like very useful.How much edge weight amount are you using?And which tool for placing the screws/bolts instantly?

passerby

@dpaynter26 adding audio would prolly make hte video quality worse since it needs t all fit up the pipe in real-time.

though not sure if possible but it would be nice if you could recored in full res or atleast 720p and up that to vimeo or youtube later, since when you start hardning edges up its realy hard to tell at the low res what is happing, eg edge weighting, or support loops/ bevels.