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A wip for my current video series.









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Jason.

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A little progress on details:




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Jason.

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[Bubbaloo]

Nice modelling! What software are you using? Don't say Sketchup!

Would love to see the wires too.

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Thanks Brian!

Yep it is Sketchup, Because of the density the wires look like a mess...





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Jason.

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Here's the leg more or less done, the dome shape at the bottom is the beginning of the foot assembly which is next.




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Jason.

[rusteberg]

Yep it is Sketchup

i don't believe you..... maybe the tutorial will prove me otherwise

[djflod]

Yep it is Sketchup

i don't believe you..... maybe the tutorial will prove me otherwise

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[NicoR44]

Totally perfect!!! I love it..

[numerobis]

very nice modeling!
do you use any plugins for the curves?

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Thank-you

I did use several free ruby plugins for this: Curviloft, BezierSpline, and RoundCorner mostly.

Here's the legs with feet -- I had some cooler looking feet made that were a bit more faithful to the design but they could not achieve the articulation I wanted so I took some liberties to make them a bit more functional for moving. I may still do some tweaking but at this point I could consider them done...


I've rigged the legs to get them ready to do a bit of DC animation based posing functionality (just like I built into the arms). This will allow me to "pose" each leg individually with just a click -- a very handy thing when you have a army of these guys

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Jason.

[Polyxo]

I did use several free ruby plugins for this: Curviloft, BezierSpline, and RoundCorner mostly.

I also had a hard time to believe this is Sketchup. Do these Plugins require the commercial version (I guess so)?

Thanks, Holger

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Nope, the plugins I mentioned work fine on the free version, although I did extensively use the "solid" tools that are native only to the new "pro" version (Sketchup Pro 8 )-- just boolean functions basically, but it certainly is past due for them to be in Sketchup.

Sketchup can be a capable hard surface modeler -- it has it's quirks but for modeling non-organics it can be good (with some plugins of course)... I wouldn't recommend it if you need to do any decent animation or complex UV mapping though.

I think Sketchup gets a bad rep because it attracts newbies (since it's free) -- and generally they don't do such good work There are definately a few hard-core modelers doing very solid work in Sketchup, you just have to look for them

I will say that Maxwell Studio is a must for me because, while Sketchup can model very nicely, it does not handle complex scenes and heavy geometry very gracefully... so I use Studio to composite my Sketchup models with sculpts from Z-Brush into scenes.

Best,
Jason.

[Polyxo]

Thanks Jason,
that's interesting to know. I'm not about to convert as I have a capable Surface Modeler myself (Rhino) but these plugins might at some point be handy when meshes are required.
About Sketchup's limitations: It's mostly up to the person who has the tool in hands - as basically always and anywhere...

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I'm still working on this between some other things -- here's all the parts together, at this point it is mostly little details and cleanup (as far as modelling).



Best,
Jason.