Smoking Robot WIP - help modeling
 

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1...eadwip3am0.jpg

I'm modeling this after this kid's toy

http://www.13a.co.uk/images/tobar/Smoking%20Robot.jpg

so I need to know something easy - I want to cut a circular hole in the side for the arms, and booleans aren't working and are too messy anyway. What's the best way to go about this?

id say use this method
http://files-upload.com/354731/help.zip.html

its for doing light on cars but itll work just the same

use the text file for the words and associate the text to the steps picture by the numbers:beer:

what'd you render that in?

hey JS thanks for the tut it's excellent


shhhhhh its a secret.

rhymes with

"shmeeray"

but for maya. beta. it's sick. I'll post some more tests as I work
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9...idvacayra9.gif
this pic has no AA and bad gif compression

haha, i LOVE "shmeeray"...

those renders are looking great, and the model is cool too.

maybe bevil the top of the head more,;)

it was made for acid44 by 99gs turbo so dont give me the credit:p

anyone reading this should check out the vray for maya beta - full version is coming out soon and only limitations for beta are watermark and render size. maybe scene size too. its amazing, compared to the :headbang: that is mr in maya. our studio fortunately got access to the unlocked version

HEY!!!:angery:

mental ray for maya is great if you know how to use it.

too bad i dont, haha

yeah, VRAY looks good

hey got some new pics... just a single sun/sky. gonna do some indoor hdr renders too. still needs work on feet, textures, body details etc...



http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4...outsidenz7.jpg

he is a rude robot. sry!

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/7...ough2psqt5.jpg

cleaned this up a bit - the caustics got turned on when I didn't want them
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/...pg-noscale.jpg

Whoa, this is looking really good. Looks like a VERY realistic toy.