Random WIP 2006-2011

[MElvinVM]

Talking about robots and missile launchers!

[bobthedinosaur]

its perfect... you should work for westwood studies.... oh wait

[Karl]

This tanks waits to shoot down Mechs >:D

i know barrel sucks but better then a cigarrete cannon <.<

[PicassoCT]

its perfect... you should work for westwood studies.... oh wait

Transpiringspiration. But mecha is good, keep it up, texture it with PS, then come back for some moar hurtfull comentary, like all we damned do while in the fruitloop.

[KaiserJ]

hey melvin thats by far the best model ive seen from you yet; you're defenitely improving. i like the design, it makes visual sense to me (the balance between the legs and the body of the mech etc)

how about posting the model and the texture so we can have a look?

but honestly, a little AO bake magic and some normals and you're good to go.

[MElvinVM]

Im sorry but i dont have the model here, but could you explain this "magic" and "normals"?

it's not finished yet but my new project has a team so maybe we will succeed in getting these into spring!

[Wombat]

he meant that AO bake improves model a lot (tho, only in spring its needed tbh)

and normals turn regular 2d texture into something that looks like 3d (for example all these greyish little squares and rectangles will look like 3d mesh)

[MElvinVM]

could you tell me how i do these 2 things?

[Wolf-In-Exile]

Here is how to do it right

[smoth]

aw, I was all excited because I thought you did that one.

[MElvinVM]

[Wombat]

bad lamp or its really terribly dark ?

[smoth]

bad lamp I suspect.

[Karl]

we need 10 enginners to fix it

2 to hold the chair
2 to change the bulb
3 to get the new bulb
1 to look out for fail wire
and 2 to buy a new bulb

also



chassis sucks needs some rework
any ideas for second weapons?
its main weapon is a (plasma) cannon

[MElvinVM]

Karl do you use reference for your designs?

You always say "yeah this sucks, that sucks" but as a kind of "artist" its not good to show you "sucky works" if you think so.

Honestly, the barrels and chassis could use rework indeed, but you should see existing gun chassis and barrels and practice more in general shapes perhaps, the gun is kinda flat.

[Karl]

Karl do you use reference for your designs?

sometimes

Karl do you use reference for your designs?

You always say "yeah this sucks, that sucks" but as a kind of "artist" its not good to show you "sucky works" if you think so.

well i also post here to get some critics and tipps on how to make it less sucky and by sucks i mean its my "way" of saying how it can look better

Honestly, the barrels and chassis could use rework indeed, but you should see existing gun chassis and barrels and practice more in general shapes perhaps, the gun is kinda flat.

i am pretty happy with the barrell and i would maybe polish a bit but that is all
the chassis gives me headache



most awesome wheel

[KaiserJ]

could you tell me how i do these 2 things?

well theres quite a few different ways to get AO bakes and normals

it looks like you've got an atlased texture there so AO bake probably won't work, but if you'd like to attach the model (in 3ds or obj format) and the texture, i can make you a normalmap and explain to you how i constructed it

also now that you've got colored areas instead of just straight grey, it looks even better

[MElvinVM]

i dont have my model here right now.

I do have some detail changes.

[oksnoop2]

So is that like urban camo?

[knorke]

http://insky.ytmnd.com/