looking good so far.

maybe u can change the colors of your own explosion a little bit in the way the footage explosion looks like. and the explosion dust could be a little lighter.

but anyway...

looking good.
this fighter bot in a nice future arena would be cool.

i have to say it:

this comic char is GREAT :).

i bet the animation would be funny.

C.

here the other perspective,
sorry no time for more at the moment.

http://mitglied.lycos.de/creative7o/wip/co.c.01.47.persp.02.jpg

here it is, my first real concept car. It's just W.I.P and a lot to do.

critic and new ideas are welcome.

here the links:

http://mitglied.lycos.de/creative7o/wip/co.c.01.46.persp.03.jpg...

then build a curve with the same number of points like the original curve, select both and snap now in the compnonent mode the new cuve points to the old.

just move to the component tool, select the old curve and take your create cv tool, hit 'v' and then it should snap to the old curve points... and there u have your new curve.

wow that would be great. i watch a 200min video and become a master in maya (does that only work with maya? maybe someone could plz make a video for becoming a nuclear scientist :D ). for this, i...

... but to stitch two surfaces the way u want it, it's a little bit tricky.
just practice will help.
rebuild your surfaces that they have same u or v spans. try with a easy geometrie and

so...

u could group the iris part in a new group, the new group will have the center in the origin. after this u can easy dublicate (rotate) this one part and build the complete iris.

so long C.