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Hey guys,

I couldn't be bothered typing the whole thing in again, so I just quoted it!

By the way, this model would be fine inside dbpro cause th polycount isn't too large.


Quoted from Blenderartist forums -

Just recently, the guy who does sound engineering with me at work decided to get into blender a bit. He has never done 3D animation or anything like it, so I tutored him through modelling and the like and he is catching on VERY quickly.

The guy is obsessed with everything Transformers, so his first few models were all transformer-y things made from primitives. After a week or two though, I illustrated to him the benefits of box modelling and he has taken to it so well.

With all this new found power, Zac P. modelled a robot, and gave it to me for animation.

All I did was add some node effects to jazz it up, and I did the rigging/animation work.

It was actually a lot of fun, and didn't take long at all to complete.

The reason why I have posted it here and not in the finished projects section is because its part of a larger animation test thing, and not strictly finished. Also, its only 12 odd seconds long.

some progression pics -

http://www.glightdev.com/renders/stills/zacs_1.jpg
http://www.glightdev.com/renders/stills/zacs_2.jpg
http://www.glightdev.com/renders/stills/zacs_3.jpg


the vid (2.2mb) -
http://www.glightdev.com/renders/movies/zac.avi

Hope you enjoy it, and please, comment on it!

Greenlig

looks cool

Thanks for the comment Inverted. Admittedly, not very useful, but welcomed nonetheless.

looks like a great job

the end of the jump looks kind of awkward because of the pause, I don't know if that's an intentional pause or not but if so then it's in the wrong place. And the bot itself is really out of proportion but that's not your doing

Yeah! The bot is ridiculously out of proportion, but thats how its supposed to be. Bots aren't exactly a tangible product at the moment, so proportion doesn't matter too much in terms of realism.

Your comments are valid however. Zac P. was stewing over the proportions for quite some time but settled on what he thought looked good. For a beginner, I thought he made a good attempt!

Not quite sure what you mean about the pause...I can't see it..

Thanks for the crits, they will be taken into account for the next animation!

greenlig