Mar/Apr - Norm - Pony
 

This first post I"m going to keep updated with the most resent and relivent pic's from the thread so you know a bit of what your getting in to.

http://www.equinestudios.com/images/concept 002.jpg
http://www.equinestudios.com/images/RTroy0013.jpg
http://www.equinestudios.com/images/RTroy0019.jpg
http://www.equinestudios.com/images/RTroy0021.jpg

Ah Pony Maestro has entered :) Knowing you and your ways for some time now I have a sense that there's an evil masterplan behind this image coming up. Having us suspended in the air then letting us guess growl. Evil.

Judging from the picture you posted I would guess you're modeling an aircraft :) Have fun with this one m8.

A little work on the basic suport structure.

http://www.equinestudios.com/images/concept 001.jpg

Things are going slow as I have had helth problems but getting better now.

Pain = Can't think.

Anyway, here is a ruff idea of the hydrolics tendonts etc.
black = endo-skeleton
blue = hydrolics
green = tendonts or pistons

http://www.equinestudios.com/images/concept 002.jpg

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. Pls get well soon.

Interesting concept, will the bot be skeletal looking, or do you plan to had some surface area. Looking forward to seeing this in progress.

Alpha, thanks.

mhcannon, thanks, yeah probably some surface area.

Started on the skull peace. Just wanted to get back in to 3d.
http://www.equinestudios.com/images/GCS0002d.jpg

Good to see you back in a challenge Pony. I was bummed your horror idea was not able to be completed. Hope the health is good brother.
Good start on the modelling

I like the evil red look. When this challenge is over you have to teach me everything you know about horses and horse anatomy. Looking forward to see this develop.

Also best wishes of swift recovery and good health.

surfermcd, yeah sorry about the horror one. but it will see the light of day, er the dark of night sometime. thanks.

Alpha, thanks. and sure. The hardest parts of a natrual horse are : maniging the long main and tail, getting the short fur to look right in difrent shots, and the eye's are hard to get right and socketed becouse there oval not round. ... ... oh yeah there knees er wrist really have 2 rotation points, not one. :)

If anyone can make this dangerous Terminator pony, I'm sure it's you. Now get into it and show us what it can do ;)

Good to hear you're feeling better as well. :)

so whats the fuction of this robot,

Demon, thanks very much. :)

Vlad, it really has a very good use I think. But I'm not going to spill the beens just yet. I'll wait a little later in the challange for that.

hint, its about the only valid use for this robot there probably is. In other words its the one thing some other design, like humanoid, couldn't do better.

is it a racer lol. nice sketches by the way. liking it

LOL no not a racer. If it was there wouldn't be ribs on it, as it would be unnessasary and slow it down.

well on to more 3d.. a ruff draft in 3d of 4 of the neck vertabra. With enought hydrolic's to bend the neck from side to side.. up and down.. and twist..

http://www.equinestudios.com/images/RTroy0006a.jpg


click on this for larger size.

looks good so far, Pony, keep it coming :)
(by the way, nice WIPs)