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A wip for my current video series.









Best,
Jason.

A little progress on details:




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Jason.

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

Would love to see the wires too.

Thanks Brian!

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





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Jason.

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.

Half Life wrote:Yep it is Sketchup

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

rusteberg wrote:

Half Life wrote:Yep it is Sketchup

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

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Totally perfect!!! I love it..

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

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

Best,
Jason.

Half Life wrote: 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

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.

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...

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.