BULGAROV. Black Phoenix Project

tacit math · Mar 2013

most of us here have likely seen this already. but if not. . . BOOM !!!

Vitaly Bulgarov

http://bulgarov.com/index.html

crazyfool · Mar 2013

wheres my highlander sword?

dfacto · Mar 2013

I hate him so much, but my penis loves those robots even more.

I so want models of some of these. Imagine these as master grade 1/60 bandai models.:nerd:

bounchfx · Mar 2013

JESUS. One a day!!?! I really hope he documented his workflow lol. I wonder how many 'pieces' or parts to cobble together were made beforehand, or if they were same day.

holy cow.

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EVIL · Mar 2013

I wish him the best of luck dealing with client expectations after this, but DAMN! thats some hot stuff!

cptSwing · Mar 2013

Wtf. 1 Day.

Ged · Mar 2013

kick ass stuff! I bet there was tons of kitbashing involved but thats still incredible!

Mongrelman · Mar 2013

Whoa.

But people seem to be operating under the assumption that he isn't a robot himself.

artquest · Mar 2013

yeah 1 day per model is NUTS! I wonder what his workflow looks like. I'd love to see a new Gnomon class from Vitaly.

Lazerus Reborn · Mar 2013

artquest wrote: »

yeah 1 day per model is NUTS! I wonder what his workflow looks like. I'd love to see a new Gnomon class from Vitaly.

Based on these robots and after work on them

jdvi · Mar 2013

I saw this yesterday and spent the rest of the day trying to wrap my head around that workrate! Even if he used premade parts, that's still amazing. I've seen him around these parts before. I demand answers!

Anyhow the designs are great and I'm digging the hardcore Boston Dynamics aesthetic that I've seen around lately. I wish I had an eye for mechanical, tech-porn details like that.

ScudzAlmighty · Mar 2013

I don't even... HOW?!? :poly101:

SonicBlue · Mar 2013

He's the Master of XSI for a reason; my gowd, his new works are sublime.

Mcejn · Mar 2013

Nice. :cool:

reverendK · Mar 2013

my jaw rolled under my desk and now i can't find it.

dtschultz · Mar 2013

Yes, if anyone sees a link to his workflow, please post it. I am curious how he went about this. I'm guessing he had a library of some of nuts, bolts, etc. and decals, and is using procedural textures/materials, but still... That's accomplishing a lot in one day.

MM · Mar 2013

dtschultz wrote: »

Yes, if anyone sees a link to his workflow, please post it. I am curious how he went about this. I'm guessing he had a library of some of nuts, bolts, etc. and decals, and is using procedural textures/materials, but still... That's accomplishing a lot in one day.

i am pretty sure the textures are just photoshop paintovers and not actual textures on the mesh. you can tell that by the inconsistency between different views on decals positions etc.

impressive work none the less!

firestarter · Mar 2013

He really has an eye for design with this stuff too. To bat those out in a day is incredible.

SonicBlue · Apr 2013

http://vitalybulgarov.blogspot.sg/2013/04/sloth-robot-and-timelapse-video.html

If someone is interested into seeing his workflow, here's a video timelapse that I'm currently downloading

Tenchi · Apr 2013

Thanks! This guy is on another level...

Skillmister · Apr 2013

SonicBlue wrote: »

http://vitalybulgarov.blogspot.sg/2013/04/sloth-robot-and-timelapse-video.html

If someone is interested into seeing his workflow, here's a video timelapse that I'm currently downloading

Ged · Apr 2013

timelapse is pretty cool, sooo many ngons but his stuff is mostly flat shaded so it seems to work out well anyway. He does seem to drop in a premade/kitbash shape around 19:30 mins too?

Irreal · Apr 2013

Good lord.... Apart from Vitaly being incredibly quick and fluid I have to say that XSI's modelling toolset looks completely solid. I can't imagine doing things this quickly in max or maya.

dfacto · Apr 2013

Jesus, that speed. This must be what it feels like to get dunked on.

liamdes · Apr 2013

noob question. is this considered mid poly modeling? also, does his modeling workflow fit along the game art development pipeline? from the first few mins of watching, it doesn't seem like he uses a type of turbo smooth modifier or something like that, but manually applies chamfering to edges. would it work to model in this fashion and use these as your detailed models to bake down onto low poly models? just wondering, because this looks easier/quicker for hard surface objects like this when you don't have to worry as much about how things will turbosmooth and fixing topology and stuff.

breakneck · Apr 2013

liamdes,
I haven't watched the video, but I can tell you that a lot of the time I have baked down from a 'mid poly' model and results are just fine.
Looking at some of the shapes of his models though, I would see many of them not showing up too well in a bake. Reason being is the lack of slopped extrustions - which you can read about here:
http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap/

Isaiah Sherman · Apr 2013

Yup. Dat shit cray.

liamdes · Apr 2013

breakneck wrote: »

liamdes,
I haven't watched the video, but I can tell you that a lot of the time I have baked down from a 'mid poly' model and results are just fine.
Looking at some of the shapes of his models though, I would see many of them not showing up too well in a bake. Reason being is the lack of slopped extrustions - which you can read about here:
http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap/

Thanks for the reply! I see what you mean.

Fuse · Apr 2013

Anyone else find this eerily soothing and hypnotic? I'm such a polygon nerd.

Skillmister · Apr 2013

Don't know if you'd all seen these from an earlier blog post of his. Interesting indeed.

artquest · Apr 2013

Skillmister wrote: »

Don't know if you'd all seen these from an earlier blog post of his. Interesting indeed.

Oh nice, I haven't seen these yet. Looks like these are purely design fun. I would guess it's kind of like 3d concept art of sorts. I can't imagine him not cleaning up the topology for production.

SonicBlue · Apr 2013

This method is very efficient for keeping render times low (with flat surfaces if you break the edges smoothing you solve all the shading problems), he didn't even chamfered the edges, because he can use the "round corners" option while rendering.

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/userguide/index.html?url=files/tex-bump_shaders_RoundedCorners.htm,topicNumber=d30e682600

http://www.keyshot.com/whats-new/#whatsnew05

peanut · Apr 2013

With work like that, how about naming your first born son Bulgarov ... just coz you can :poly129:

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