Big T - Super Villain - Robot
 

Hey guys,
I have just finished watching the Nizzi Robot Design Tutorial from Gnomon and a few doodles later and i think i'm good to go for this challege. Ive also got a fair chunk o free time at the mo too so this one should get done (unlike the last 1).

Expect a few concept shots soon. Oh and the tutorial is awsome. Ive learnt more from that 1 tut than i have from a lot of others.

T

Ok so progress! We have Legs!!

Also i hate the big panels and they are gonna be re done soon but lots of progress really quickly i love this method of building as you just create shapes that would fit the area and fits your theme. So its really fast and who cares about poly counts >_<

http://www.digitaltom.co.uk/images/r...t/back_leg.jpg


http://www.digitaltom.co.uk/images/r.../front_leg.jpg


More updates soon!

Nice start!

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with with this one!

thanks g. like i said this method is really fast so i thought i would do a quick overview of what im doing.

1st i just doodles some bots. I came up with a flame guy design that i quite liked so im using that as my base.

2nd just start knocking it up in maya, Nizzi suggests just ripping stuff appart from previous models youve made for all the mechanical bits and just seeing where they fit. However i dont have stuff to rip from so im having to create bits from scratch, so this is my cogs, pistons, struts, canisters, valves...etc.

3rd export to hypershot, its a really nice texturing program so will play around with that and see what i can do with it.

Then its just touching up in photoshop adding bits, cleaning up and just adding the wow factor.

I expect to be done in about 2 weeks depending on how long i have to spend on it but this is such a fun project it might end up an army of bots :)

Update : Torso.

Hello! managed to get the torso and head done still maybe a little more tweaking may leave it till photoshop tho.

Just the arms left. Cant remember if i said before but this guy is based on a fire theme (wait for the arms ^_^) so this is why he has a kinda welding mask this is actually able to come up and show a face but since your not going to see it i never finished the face.

Heres Johnny!

http://www.digitaltom.co.uk/images/r...obot/torso.jpg

Those who realise the legs are missing they are just hidden to improve performance. And prob add a few lil more things in shoulder area.

More soon!

S*$t the bed!

You going all gun's blazing with this one!

What that gnomon vid think I could do with insprataton and motivation like that!

hah thanks, Its The Robot Design tutorial with Josh Nizzi. He uses 3DS Max, but all the priciples still work.

Ive wanted to make a bad ass robot for soo long but never known 'how' or its ended up looking plain, or too many parts to texture in 1 year lol.

My end product of this will be a single still that should be definately going in the portfolio. :)

Ok - Hopfully someone can help, it looks like ive spent allllllll day on this and its come out really nice time to texture :) however when i export and import into hypershot my robot is on its back.

Any help is much appreciated.


T

EDIT:

Ok simple fix just grouped the whole lot and rotated 90 degrees the direction it was wrong in.

Here is a quick screen of the theme im going for.



http://www.digitaltom.co.uk/images/r...ed_texture.jpg

Ok amazingly (ive even shocked myself) its taken 24 hrs.... I think im gonna do another one, more parts this time, bigger, better...etc.

But here it is. I reminded myself that it was a fire themed robot so red colour scheme. hopfully its enough of a villain. but like i said another 1 should be coming up so will try and be more evil with the next 1.

http://www.digitaltom.co.uk/images/r...ot/robot_1.jpg

:eek: :eek:
You definitely get the speed award there... wow, and excellent final product too! I agree, keep going, bigger, better... :)

hi Tom

Looks good mate!

THe Axis thing is that theres 2 ways to have 3D depending on how you look at it, either y is up or z is up depending on how you look at a bit of paper. More technical/engineering sopftwares use Z up

This looks well good. Could you explain a bit about your material/ texture set up here Tommy?

Hey Ben,
I sure can and the simple answer is Hypershot. Its a great progam for texturing and rendering as it has a whole load of preset textures and you can scroll through them and then find the 1 closest to what you want and tweak. For example on my model i think i used the Chrome Dark Material for the large panels, and changed the colour to the dark red and increased the roughness a little to get a more matte effect. Its as easy as using the fill tool.

All the panel lines were drawn on after in photoshop as texturing these for a still would just be a waste of time. The other photoshop parts include the flame (and highlights) and just general tweaking of the image.

Nizzis pipeline for creating robots like this is really about speed rather than accuracy on the 3d models. So use the program that will be fastest to do what you need.

If i were doing this for an animation then i would have to go in and create UVs...etc. But as im not why waste time?

Or you are the fastest 3d artist i have ever seen or this is a model you have made in the past and you are merely tweaking it.

It looks good though so no crits there:beer:

hah thanks mastone, actually i was really fast in modeling this too i seem to be good at making little nick nacks. Im currently macking a huge archive of them so my next robot should be even faster to make and any machines really!

If i had made this in the past i wouldnt be so impressed with myself. Im still in shock that i made it haha!

Oh 1 more point for anyone who is gonna try this make sure that when you duplicate your stuff for the opposite leg or watever that its not instanced because it gave me a whole load of issues further on.

oh my great model just one question...........does it transform??;)

dude, i was gonna ask that! XD

it totally looks like it should transform!

im not sure how you can improve on that but you might still have things you still want to do

kinda wish i'd put myself some time to get mine done/started. you make me jealous of your speed ;)

:beer:

Thanks guys,


No i wish it did tho :( hmmm next 1? lets see what would be a cool transformer....

Hah dont say that too loudly :P

Welcome to the comp.... Always nice to see a new face here


I love the legs and the mid section




but the arms are looking weak. They look like they were rushed, with not as much care and detail gone in to them as the rest of the body.

But maybe its just me

Hey Tweetytunes,
Yes the arms were slightly rushed as it was taking shape lol however saying that i still like how they look. I was having lots of issues finding the right parts to put in there and most of the stuff i created to put in just didnt look right so i just left as is.

But expect No2 to be much more interesting, more materials, more parts, more stuff in general. Expect it to come soon, just creating a few things to help me play around with Hypershot some more 1st and then i will carry on with 2nd bot :) still have a while before deadline.

T

help me
 

he buddy nice work can u give me his more referrence.....
i want 2 try it ,......
please give me his ref...

hey u can find the tutorial on The Gnomon Workshop

Its Josh Nizzi Robot Design.

T

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hey,....
it's ask for $59,i can't afford this......
if u have the ref and torrent of this tutorial please send it on my id,.....
please send it ,.....
my id is- "dheerajnarang2050@gmail.com"

Yeah, I don't think anyone's going to be sending around pirated tutorials...
There's a ton of free (legal) tutorials online, you just gotta look. Lots on this site, plus plenty of other sites that focus on free maya tuts:
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/
The autodesk website has some...
I'm sure google can point you to some other good sites too...

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hey thanks 4 it.....
actually i don't want any tutorial,....
i say u 4 tuto,.... only 4 d point of ref...
i want only ref.... that's it

HAVE A NICE DAY

Ok... without getting bitchy about this i won't torrent the tutorial or anything related to that tutorial. If you look closely at the pics ive submited you can see how its built up and ive described enough on how to do it so just read through and you will get the idea.

Finally, and for me the most important, please use real english not 'dis txt tlk dat no1 cn rd'.. its just annoying and i can barely understand what your saying. If your not english then use some online translators.

T

big tommy b. Does an evil robot classify as an evil villain?

Why wouldnt it? if i create a back story for him i dont see why not.... Wouldnt you class Megatron as one of the biggest baddest villains?

Go d damn. You win. Lol :p

lol - :D i really should work on my character modeling tho i keep putting it off as i suck at it.... cyborg maybe? we will see when ive finished my other project.

what did you render in? it looks like maxwell or something. It has a bit of grain on it. maybe render it longer or more samples or something. i'm not very knowledgeable of maxwell.

(i'm only guessing its maxwell because of the grain btw, so i'm probably wrong. :P )

no its cuz my comp was spazing out in hypershade for some reason. hence the grainy ness. i quite like it tho adds to the kinda feel to it. lol

Great model Big T, Like the pose too. He is pure bad ass :)