August Challenge - HPorter - Normal
 

o.k. I am in!:bgreen:

I will make a Lab for my MoonMan character, pic below:

oh yeah, and... Moony is a Scientist and quite mad too!

Awesome man! Im glad youre in!!

cant wait to see how you model this one...

Looks cool Howard. I guess this has been answered before, but what is your day-job?

thanks tweek! non-organic stuff is way hard for me. But thats what these challenges are for, right? to learn!

fredriksson- My day job is a comicbook artist. At least most days it is :D

Excellent to see you in Howard! More points!

Btw I love the little monitors on the stalky things, that's going to look great!

thanks Witchy. I should be an expert at pipes when all is said and done, eh?

here are the first shots of todays work ---->

parts, parts and more parts:

and, putting the parts together:

and a quick render with 2 lights....

is it possible to sharpen an edge of a poly object? (I would like the gears to be sharper)

Not quite sure what you mean, but you could try hardening the edge.

Polygons> Normals > Harden/Soften

"My, what alot of revoloves youve got."

"All the better to eat you with... oh wait... no."

thank the lord for revolve!

Great start!

tnx!

last post for tonight-
:sleep:

That's very jolly indeed.

How did you get that lighting effect? As one soon to be struggling with torches thought I'd try for some hints!