have been working on this for the last couple of days - it's based on a funa dansu box.

that is frikin cool man :beer:

thanks acid. :)

yea dude that box is totally tight... what's it gonna be made out of? like what kinds of metals and is there gonna be wood, or just straight metal?

hey - thanks neo - yeah the main box is wood - something dark like a mahogony or cherry - and the rest of it, all of the braces and plates, are all metal.

wow arran

I`ve been away too long - you work has come on leeps and bowns - Great stuff

hey tweetytunes - good to see you - thanks a lot mate!

have been working on his textures and attempting to get his ik handles working - i'm not having much luck when i try to use orient constraints and pole vectors - it always seems to flip my wrists / feet - and i can never get them looking right again - i try playing with the offset value, but i'm just guessing. :(

here are a few early experiments with his pose - check out the nose hair. :) need to get his chain in there and some more stuff.

haha I love it....Ohh man, I hope you do a quick rendered animation of this dude. I have it all pictured in my head now

Hey, he's looking cool.

Nice work so far.

Gio

thanks guys. :)

ha - no, no plans to animate it - i can barely rig him and i wouldn't know where to begin with the chain which i plan to add next. i think i just need to focus on modeling and texturing for now. :)

made a start on the box. think i need to do a bit more roughening it up.

hey man, coming alone nicely !

Some big cash in there? ha... nicely mental ray works like always and good bump!

:beer:

i wish there was some big cash in there!... :)

thanks starjsjswars and lealar. :beer:

first test with some chain. think it's looking a bit big and it's going through his coat in places. i was hoping to add a big chunk of it to his skeleton and then pose him, but i'm not having much luck, so i think i'll have to pose him first.