March/Apr - Norm - R4s1n
 

Well i think i'll participate in this challenge just for the fun. (Although secretly hoping the new IK tutorials will come out before the end of the challenge....:bandit: )

And here is my sketch i just drew up.

More sketches

Last one

Started modeling the outside.

And more modeling WIP's.

you might notice there's quite a bit of unneeded geometry but it's all there for detail purpose when i get there.

and a bit more

Sorry about size of images. Future ones will be smaller...

Very interesting. Now transform it into a Sub sandwich I'm hungry.

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Looking good so far ... keep it up.


Johnny ... I've just finished eating a loverly dinner - nice rare steak with veggies and roast tatties ... yum.

All i see is food at work :headbang:
Just got back and finished up laying out the outside. A bit more detail on the outside and then its onto the inside and all the fun mechanics.... :beer:

After working in a restaurant for about 2 years all a person wants is to stand on the sidelines and watch it all burn down "Office Space" style... (Not that i would do the arseny :p )

You're going fast. Nice work so far.

nice start !
you're on a roll here....:cool:

wish I had the time to enter this comp :(

Good work so far. I'm curious to see it transformed...

Thanks for the kind words guys!

And this is the Blimp in it's transformed stage.

Great start so far - have you any plans on the transformingy bit yet or what the mech will eventually look like?

Well he'll look close to my Anti-tank droid model. Somewhat but not exactly. Still have to finish modeling the inside of his legs that are folded in the blimp.

and some more progress.

and a picture of the hinges that i'm mainly using for the joints.

Wow! Lots of great work here mate. Well done! I really like some of the detail that you have going on in your model so far. Good luck!
:beer:

Thanks Arran! Here's some more progress on the inside. Legs are almost done (Might Redo them cause they look bland) but some parts need a bit more detail before i continue onto the arms.
Model sits are roughly 29,000 polys.

and the finished legs.

And here's a render of the so far model.
Still need to add detail/guns to the inside of arms...Still thinking what exactly i'm giving him.

Hey R4s1n, mighty good model you got going.. keep up the good work.. stonecool design :)

//Matt

Nice, just give him a turret or minigun-like gun!!!

Thanks for the comments guys!
@Bullet - I've been meaning to either give him turrets or rockets and now that you said turrets then that's what he is going to get :D

Unfortunately i have to go to work so i'm not sure about update....plus i have to get the house ready for my 18th birthday party...

Imagethrust.com was acting up early so i couldn't post a large image...seems like they are up again so....

http://i46.imagethrust.com/t/328676/...ationblimp.jpg
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Got around to finishing off all the modeling!! :attn:
No i have to go in and arrange everything so it transforms and operates with absolutely no problems.

Here is a closer look at the turrets that i gave him. (One thing you might notice is that i forgot to place a few cuts in the middle of each cannon.)

And here he is...i showed it to a friend and the first thing he said is that it's missing eyes...so will have to do somethign about that... i'm open to ideas...

http://i46.imagethrust.com/t/329210/...rblimpdone.jpg
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Maybe let the eyes pop out of that hole.

Anybody know where i can upload videos to? Been trying to find a site but keep getting dead ends

Hmm... you could try www.megaupload.com

hmms seems to work well, other than the 45 second wait before download....

EDIT: Removed this one as well

very nice progress R4s1n!

cant see your animation though, does it need a non standard codec or is my comp playing up? ;)

hmm not sure really, its a .mpg (Maybe it works on my PC cuz of all the codecs i have :eek: )

i'll see if i can get something up soon...

i think it was just a messed up codec that i was using anyway i rerendered this movie...should work now (Divx 6.1 Codec)

EDIT: I removed the link so it doesn't happen again.

Be careful with that downloading site. I had a porn ad pop up when I clicked it to download!

got an error trying to download your video from MegaUpload.


you may try Putfile.com (http://www.putfile.com/)

Sorry MtMckinley didn't get any popups here (But i did remove the links so nobody would have the problem.

Thanks CGrein i followed up with the link and here is the animation again...

Click here to watch 001_Transformation

very cool animation R4s1n! :beer:


I have a suggestion about the eyes:
they could look like a "tele lens"
they could move independently following the movement
of each gun and even rotate to the back.

Take a look:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/5...eyes9rm.th.jpg