CROW series Engineering Mechanoid.

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Here's the current progress!




Hello everyone. I'd like to show my practicing piece. On this one I'd like to make a weird stance, posture for a mech. Make him to have humanoid limps system (2 legs 2 arms) But kinda inhuman posture.

So here's what I start with.

I made a base mesh with spine tool in 3dCoat playing with proportion a bit and punch it into a voxel volume.

And then I sketch over the render image to give myself an idea about the details and design.

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This is rough sketch over the base form i already had. mostly blending the disconnected area created by spine tool. And to define shape, basic cutline, etcs.

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Sorry for a bit of discontinuity here's the rough detail sketch version with some parts separated for detailing + a simple shader added to test the look and feel of overall visual.

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And for the mask/head area as in my first sketch I intended to make it look like a welder mask. But it's kinda not interesting anymore among the surrounding forms. So I change the design to a long shape head somewhat Alien's like.

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And here's the update on glove area

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And some Marmoset's style presentation

Of cause it's not done yet! I just feel like to make it.

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And Yesterday, I've started work on the leg area

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And finally got his crazy leather-plastic boots setup

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The back view of the boots detail. Some kinda booster or shock absorber thing on the back of this boots

heh, I really have to focus on designing thing to be more functional look than this one next time!

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Here's the full body shot of current progress.

Benton

Don't know why you don't have any comments dude, this is awesome!

chriszuko

Boom! More Comments! I really like the Thruster-like objects on his feet. The progress is also awesome to see!

harricool

nice model....if u post ur reference u will get more comments and crits....

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Hello again

harricool wrote: »

nice model....if u post ur reference u will get more comments and crits....

@harricool Thanks for your suggestion for showing more of the process and references.
Actually I just start this from my very very rough sketch at first I intend to make something up for a base mesh comp. on GA (gameArtisans) But, in the end I change my mind about it and continue make it into my personal project

So, here's a rough sketch I'm talking about. nothing fancy just a creepy bio-mechanic thing with huge welding mask like face.

As you can see, I tweak the proportion from the sketch soo much. Just because 1. I'm freehanding stuffs in 3dCoat no reference plan setup at all. So, I kinda loose my original proportion. 2. Sometime things looks ok when it's on the paper / orthrographic side/front view but, it's turn out not so good in 3D form. So I decided to crazily tweak it.

Overall, I want this one to be very weird/inhuman posture but yet humanoid robot. Another thing I want to try on this one is trying to blend between robot joint and detail with military/scifi looking leather/plastic cloth clading or maybe some robotic muscle.

Here's I think what I'm inspired from. The Gekko! I like the posture of its leg so much.


And My fav Robotic company Boston Dynamic Here's what I'm talking about of cloth, leather cladded with machanical parts
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gi6Ohnp9x8"]BigDog Reflexes - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqMVg5ixhd0"]BigDog Evolution - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFrjrgBV8K0"]Petman Tests Camo - YouTube[/ame]

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@Benton @chriszuko Thank you very much for your encouragement! I'll update this thing as frequent as i can!

cupsster

love it so far!

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cupsster wrote: »

love it so far!

Thank you very much!

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OMG, I just found an interesting reference for the hand/fingers's detail it's the design from Kinovarobotic! the JACO robotic arm. At the first glance I think it's kinda unique and practical design for 3-fingers system.

It's actually designed as in attached arm unit for an electronic wheelchair.



I will design more flexible joint like.. ball joint for each finger around this ref.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=iZYxJFROew8
Here's a promotion video of JACO. Very cool indeed. I really amazed that it can handle very delicate task like grabing small object so well.

Shrike

Your lighting is pretty bad. Put some lights up, rimlight, colored lights, everything brighter and a better background, also check your composition, you can get that a lot better. That is the highpoly still ?
IF its the lowpoly then you gotta work a lot on the texture. The shape looks pretty good.

SuPa-

It's a work in progress sculpt so I really don't think that it needs any fancy renders yet. The shots shown have everything anyone needs to see to critique it.

I think that it's good so far but I don't quite understand its design direction or functionality. Nonetheless the model is looking cool!

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Shrike wrote: »

Your lighting is pretty bad. Put some lights up, rimlight, colored lights, everything brighter and a better background, also check your composition, you can get that a lot better. That is the highpoly still ?
IF its the lowpoly then you gotta work a lot on the texture. The shape looks pretty good.

SuPa- wrote: »

It's a work in progress sculpt so I really don't think that it needs any fancy renders yet. The shots shown have everything anyone needs to see to critique it.

I think that it's good so far but I don't quite understand its design direction or functionality. Nonetheless the model is looking cool!

Thank you! you seem to be right about the lighting rightnow. But, it's just a quick realtime render from 3D Coat. In the end If I done this into a game resolution with maps I might as well throw it to Marmoset for better presentation.

And about functionality. I gotta admit that I'm really weak and miss out for this one. It just start from random sketch And I didn't design enough about function thing.

Say, I will make him more like the topic imply, Engineering bot. With a style I experimenting like leather cladding and bright color splash.

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Here's my sketch for the overall shape of the 3 fingers arm.




Now time to get back to sculpt

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Morning everyone. here's an updat on finger area

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Here's what I'm doing rightnow. I'm now redesigning the pelvis area.

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And it just keep getting crazier.

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Just made some part separation and cut lines

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Finally I think I'm done with the pelvis part. rightnow I'll going to redesign the head a bit more.

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Here's the current Progress so far.

pixelpatron

Not sure I like the clown shoes, or the torso. Arms and hands are cool but the proportions make it feel like there would be no way the shoulders could support those massive Popeye forearms. Head is sort of a weak point too. Sorry probly not what ya wanted to hear. Keep going!

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pixelpatron wrote: »

Not sure I like the clown shoes, or the torso. Arms and hands are cool but the proportions make it feel like there would be no way the shoulders could support those massive Popeye forearms. Head is sort of a weak point too. Sorry probly not what ya wanted to hear. Keep going!

Not at all pixelpatron straight to the point comment like this is what I really want to hear!

Rightnow I'm sketch over the head design. Not really sure about the flat design yet. But, I'll keep sketching.