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EzMeow

Basic shape research, fortunatly it's a 3D contest O.o;
I'm going for a scout.



Good luck and fun to everyone ! \O.o/

AcidLehmann

7 for sure.

i like 5, lol

Deto

5 is very General Grievous style. While I dig it alot, I think it would be nice if you broke away from his mold and mixed the style with 3 or 6 perhaps. Might mix nice

EzMeow

I've switch to 3D shape research for now to feel more comfortable ~
So here is what I've end up with mixing part i liked.



...a wolf/spider/bee/mantis... quite overcharged look, guess I'll remove some part to make it feel more dynamic...

garagarape

Hey man, can't see my favorite (Seventh one) in your last picture. Is he in the beast stomach? Good luck to you.

EzMeow

Getting more precise in the shape~
I'm trying to give it a sort of adaptive shape according to the situation this machine would face, by being able to deploy parts when it needs. (fully deployed there)



sorry Garagarape for the 7, he was too much powerfull to fit with a scout design, it would have been perfect for a warmachine

EzMeow

Started to model some part of my machine trying to give it a mechanic/insect feeling

Kamui

Nice, it's got a very mantis-like feel to it with the addition of some mammal like hind legs. It might not be a bad idea to try to explore some narrower shapes to really give it a quick and light feeling to emphasize the "scoutness".

notebookguy

Wicked shapes

EzMeow

Getting more precise with the arms shape, I'll probably not keep them that slim... well I'll have to remodel all that in a clean way anyway

EzMeow

Slowly reshaping all the part, I still have a lot of piece to do. When I'll be happy of my 'detail blocking', I will clean all that mess of polygon u.u;




ps : it seems that polycount forum is having some hard time, it was kinda hard to post without getting an error O.o;

Kamui

It's coming together. I like the arms and don't think you need to make them much bigger. I really hope you don't go down the line of making it too "transformerey" (like the new movies). I'm not sure about other people but i dislike the way they do their robots. They have bits of scrap everywhere with no purpose other than looking busy and complicated. So far your's is looking good.

In any case, looking foward to the mantis section. Hope you have a good idea of what you want to do for the head!

EzMeow

Updating~ Made an adjustment to the 'lower' head to make it easier to read, and I'm searching my shapes for my upper body >.<

Deathelmz

I personally Loved number 5, But your rendering is awesum too

EzMeow

Well the upper body was a test to see how a mantis body would fit, but it seems to me that the general form is losing some dynamism, so I think I'll mix it with a more '5' upper body version anyway

fei-rukawa

if you have a perverted mind like mine, you can see lots of weird stuff in this picture XD

garagarape

Wow! Great job here. It reminds me some Zoids designs.
Is it wings that you added on your last picture? Or Mantids arms?
If it is wings you may not loose dynamism by choosing them shape
not spread and going down the body rear part... May be.
Gambatte!

Emil Mujanovic

This is looking pretty slick.

kd4sh

Nice!!! looks great! I like it.

EzMeow

Sloooowly progressing, I've redo the lower head in a more clean way, adjusting the design a lil bit, and redo a blocking for the upper part >.<.
So here is a render to see how the shape was going with the shadow (and because it's more friendly o.O; )

Snowfly

Nice modeling so far! Loved your entry for the minis, can't wait to see how this one develops

notebookguy

You unwrapping this or dropping textures on mesh?

EzMeow

I won't unwrap this as it is the high resolution that I'll use to bake my normal map. If i paint it, I'll probably do it once I'll do my Zbrush pass.

kd4sh

he looks be ready to attack!! love it

fightpunch

This is coming along really well, looks very menacing.

konstruct

damn this is awesome! although be weary of the silhouette on this guy. I`m not an expert, but I`m willing to bet baking this to a low is going to rough.

408

Amazing work. Would it be possible to see a wire frame? I am interested to see how those shapes were accomplished.

EzMeow

Update on the body. I'm trying to step away a lil bit from the industrial look by adding some curves and ornaments (with smooth wireframe view for 408 ) ~

notebookguy

nice renders

EzMeow

slowly progressing on the body (details that no one will see anyway u.u; ) and started to work on the legs ~

r4ptur3

damn dude, this is going to be one hell of a bake-down! I love the organic feel to the robot parts. I cant believe you are free balling most of this!

woogity

sweet, hope you can retop something with so many little parts within the budget tho good luck for sure if you can pull this off i cant wait to see the wires!


-Woog

EzMeow

well I've to close a lot of little gap to make it 'bakeable' , and maybe have to adjust some part if i go out of poly count. But surely it will be hell u.u

coldkodiak

YEah, the bake will be hell, but if you pull it off, it sure as hell will be a unique entry. Not everyone takes a ballsy approach like this.

Joseph Silverman

This is nice, dude, really unique entry.

Jeremy Wright

Lovely. Beautiful machinery.

morte

great modeling! Cant wait to say how you will approach to the bakeing process

fei-rukawa

question, how big will this guy be?

EzMeow

Good question, seems that most people seeing it (including you xD), visualize it pretty big, but basically i wanted to do it , let say a lil bigger than a quad (I hope it still fit in the scout size, else I will need to gear it up and do a war machine). I don't know what people think about it.

Bal

I think it's partially the thickness of some of the areas that make it feel bigger than what you were thinking. The legs especially feel quite thin if you imagine it quad-sized (but that's not necessarily a bad thing).
Either way could work though in my opinion, scale can be suggested through your textures anyways.

kd4sh

dude, that rocks!

Sephiel

Nice work ! But, I'm not very fan of the big back leg's idea

Ged

nice , its like a giant robotic ant, hmm yeah I would like to see it with powerful front legs rather than back legs.

EzMeow

Thanks everyone for the comments.
Small update as I didn't work that much this weeks u.u



Mainly I've try to do a tubular/muscle articulation and I've reduce the size of the rear legs and made them a lil more pile hammer/horse like to have a more 'jumpy' feeling.

EzMeow

I'm not dead \X.x/. Well it's been a long time I didn't update my threaD, mainly cause I was doing a lot of bake test to see how I could fit in the polygon budget . Anyway as now my robot is spread in a lot of different part, to be able to work on them (thanks to my comp keeping on crashing) here is some regrouped part (not much to see) ~

garagarape

Nice bake. It works well!
Happy to see that you are still alive

EzMeow

baking baking baking...it takes ages x.X;



Thanks Gara, i saw you went really fast on your dog, nice job \O.o/

GoSsS

What take ages ? render time or doing your pieces right to have a good bake ?
Furthermore this is coming out rellay nicely (damn you finished your Hi Res, i'm latteuuhhh)

EzMeow

Both, I even had to res down some mesh because my comp was running out of memory >.<

EzMeow

After a long fight~ 9998 triangles.
Screen from a preview with the marmoset toolbag; I've got some normals to fix but it should do it. Time to switch to texturing mode u.u; (I think i'm gonna scale down a bit the blades)

garagarape

Yeah! You did it.
It woks very well.
Keep it up.