Robobobo in progress

Dummyer

You should export into another 3d program for animation, look at blender its also free! You say you want to use this model to apply for school what is it you want to study? If its 3d design you should look at learning a few other programs that are better for modelling?

My wishes are to show that I have an interest in learning how to model. I learned really fast what I could do in sketchup and used it to be shure I got the results I was aiming for. And I know how far away I am from being a pro artist but I needed to start somewhere and felt good to start with the simple sketchUp tools. I want to enter the school to learn about the “real stuff”, from basic to Infiniti.
I’m currently taking my time in Zbrsuh and 3ds. I will not stick my head in one place and think I’ll be fine. I’m approaching this late, but no dreams are too late to follow.

IL give blender a try when this is getting animated. thx for the tips!

Dummyer

We are feeling the time pressure so we won't go in too deep with the renderings. But some glossiness here and some light there and it can still make a nice impression.
We will try to make it more lifelike and pump our skills on how to render stuff later on. For now on I’m struggling with this render, as SU crashes when vray tries to render big images.

JHuman

Great rendering! It adds a whole nother dimension to the model. Great Job man.

Phil Rader AIA

have a look at Hypershot for the rendering It would do a nice job with this subject matter.

Bagar

Another test render

BTM

Fantastic!!

Dummyer

We did a youtube clip of this robobobo witch you now can se at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhvxlZ_vjSo

(the music is created by "bagar"(Kristian Zagar) and "Sunofagun"(Christian Nilsen). aka forbidden space http://www.myspace.com/forbiddenspace1 )

plot-paris

nice video, dude! it really showcases all the work and detail that has been put into this model. great stuff. I would love to see it in a pale desert or in a city environment (you can find some free hdri maps here).

thank you very much for sharing this. makes me want to lay my hands on SU again and push my personal limit a bit further (not that its that high anyway )

dolphus

Awesome. really good work hope to see lots more

spider74

fuckin amazing...more please..

Dummyer

Revealing the mesh.. Do I want to?

The robot is meshed too heavy. I did not want to spend the time I had to make a good mesh for it, just max it out (we had not enough skills in other words). Actually we did not intend to make the whole robot at first. As the project went on we continued using the massive amount of mesh on the parts.
Now I’m trying to reduce the mesh and use components better.(about 13 times less mesh), thinking about the whole picture and then focus more on better materials and the use of hdri maps and such. The end will probably be to make the thing move, the reduced mesh will really help me out

Thx for the link plot-paris!
And ofc thanks to all for the nice comments!

Calamity_Jones

Wow, very impressive design, I love the contrast between the sleek, polished plates, and the 'nasty mechanical bits'.

Bagar

New pose and some photoshop

BTM

!!!! That's Incredible!!!!!

pilou

Cool robot but image is some dark!
Do you work on Mac?

Bagar

@unknownuser said:

Cool robot but image is some dark!
Do you work on Mac?

Thanks. I didnt realize it was dark since i did it on my pc laptop. But im still experimenting with it, trying to learn about rendering etc. Will paste more pictures as it evolves.

BTM

... I didn't find it dark... then again, most renders i've done, i've had people tell me they were too dark aswell...

coasterdude184

Looks pretty sweet there. Reflections look good aswell

Marian

Looks too shiny to me, it looks to much like a plastic toy, maybe if you try a different ,aterial for the armour it will look more real.

Dummyer

Ha, have not ben working with bagar in a while but i knew your experimenting with new mappings. I like the pose, it shows that the modle is flexible in the way I hoped we could make him. Im still working on reducing the mesh and when thats done I think me and bagar will sitt down and work out some renders in enviroments. Will be looking in to the reflections and lots more, but for now gj and keep on experimenting untill we meet bagar.