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Published: 2012-03-05 03:56:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 128388; Favourites: 5231; Downloads: 12715
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Like the fiddler?.. Check out the awesome resin model kit available for purchase!!It has been many many hours in the working from allot of people!.. I am stunned by the results!
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Thanks man, coming from you that means allot.. your work is inspirational!.. just earlier today I was eye balling your "Space Vagabonds: Combat" concept.. love the helmet very cool!
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it will one day, Im hoping to create a short action scene involving tons of mech and scifi baddass goodness. My mate is gunna rig it once I do the uvs.
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Would one of your ideas happen to involve a sandstorm with mechs charging each other with soldiers in power-armor follow by LTV's and Tanks?
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haha, yep pretty much nailed it!, the other idea was there is a small tactical force retrieving a relic from some giant underground cavern.
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Wouldn't the Cave idea be a excavation team instead of military units to be deployed?
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yeah.. perhaps.. but military is far more baddass. the idea in my head is probably different to how you see it.
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Well, Honestly if i ever created a Sci fi Universe of my own. I would be working from a business style of government.
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Insane. You must feel very proud of this. And i'm sure love it!
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that is really beyond impressive.best 3d mech i have seen.
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thanks man!, the model took about 3 weeks of hard work to do
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100% pure mech porn 
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hmm, about 2 hours for 1080p.. the glossy samples will kill you haha.. beware the glossy samples!
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WOW. . . . it's the prettiest damn thing I've ever seen! Sets a new standard for me!
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This is awesome work man
Excellent textures and details
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What type of shader did yah use for this?
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hey man, just the standard vray material for all materials. Its an "architectural" shader which means it can make pretty much anything!
from glass to metal to paper. The settings defines the material.
I find for optimum realism, you must have traced reflections turned on with a hdri map in the environment slot of your renderer "vray in this case" Although the render time will take a massive hit!
cheers
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Sweet thanks man,
I'll have a check to see MentalRay has an equivalent in its shaders, been using plain old lamberts and blinns, although heavily customized to do most of my metal based renderings
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yeah man, mentalray has mia material x, if your using maya it also has presets.
Not sure about max..probably does.
look for an hdri lighting tutorial for mentalray, Shaders are only as good as your lighting solutions.. that goes for everything actually!
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Started using the mia materials and wow, a lot more flexible and useful than simple lamberts, blinns etc.
Thanks man
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Wow... See, this is exactly the sort of thing that makes me want to become a 3D modeler, even if it's easier to get into the industry as a rigging specialist (though I'm having fun with rigging as well). This is awesome, sir. As a student in 3D animation, can I ask you a few questions about this one:
First - is this built out of NURBS or Polys? (I'm guessing polys, but one can never be sure) If polys, did you make any parts in NURBS first and then convert them?
Second - Is it still many different objects attached to a rig, or is it mostly just a single mesh now (aside from the parts that move separately from the body, like the autocannons and possibly the rifle)?
Third - Uhh... I think any more questions will really depend on how/if you answer my first two.
Again, this is awesome. I hope you can get Flyingdebris to draw the back so you can model that as well.
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hi,thanks for the kind words~!
I only just finished studying 2 years in 3d.
The robot is made from polys, although nurbs to poly workflow works well too!
As for the rig, This isn't rigged yet, manually posed it is.
My old tutor actually wants to rig it when Ive done the uvs, which is awesome!
but yeah, the model will still consist of many pieces, only small things will be combined "bolts" ect.
And yeah, flyingdebris did a quick sketch of the back and sent it to me, so the back so modeled too.
I'm uploading a demo reel of my work soon which will include a turntable and wires of the robot. Ill send you a link when ive got it up .. within 24 hours.
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Thanks! I appreciate the prompt answers and look forward to seeing the reel!
You manually posed that? You've got a lot of patience, sir. I would have just made an alternate save with a simple skeleton rig, enough to pose it without a headache but definitely not animation ready.
I'm currently a ways ahead in my modelling course, and my prof. is an animation specialist, so I'm trying to get tips on 3D modelling wherever I can. Thanks again for replying.
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haha, well id say the method i use of posing is quicker then a quick rig.
did you see my other robot on deviantart? that one is rigged and animated by myself
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Yeah, I saw it earlier. It's a lot of fun, and I'll try and write down some thoughts on it once I'm done with school/work today. Already commented about it a little bit in your reel, though that was mostly about the animation.
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ah yip sweet, yeah the animation was alittle off, that was actually the oldest work on the reel. that was my first year project. i had 11 weeks to design, model, texture, rig, animate and render/composite the entire scene.. pretty intense really.
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I meant to ask, are you going to a trade school? I'm going to a very rounded university, and thus doubt I could find enough time to make that quality of animation/modelling from scratch in that number of weeks - while at the same time balancing it all with general education courses.
For being your oldest work, it's still excellent. You seem to be mostly oriented around modeling/compositing anyway, so a few small problems in your animated sequences aren't really a problem if they don't make the model look bad.
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im not sure what you mean by trade school? I went to a school where you get taught a bit of everything in the 3d pipeline.
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Trade school meaning the school teaches you a trade rather than broader (and honestly, redundant) education. What you're talking about sounds like one - which isn't at all a problem. You probably received a better education in your discipline than I will have by graduation.
I'd complain about normal universities, but that'd be completely off-topic. Let's focus on the awesome picture and animation reel you've got. xD
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Very nice. These are the kinds of mechs that i see possible within the nex ten to twenty years.
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Better hope it won't be knocking on your door
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thanks, yeah these are my favorites because they seem to be more based in reality and therefore more believable!
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fits into the background really well. nice work.
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thank you
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Thats awesome, the model and texturing looks fantastic and it fits perfectly with the background picture. What programs did you use?
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Thanks man! I used maya, photoshop and rendered it with vray for maya with an hdri light setup
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