"AAHHH!! my brother is an evil genius!"

[dacad]

Hi guys. Long time without posting nothing.

Project created as a proposal for a Sketchup class/workshop for a CG school.

This image that started with this specific objective, evolved during the process to "let's-see-how-much-can-I-push-it" and trying to make it good enough to my portfolio, and then turn in it into a test subject to learn new stuff, but in the end it turn out to be an escape for me from a really tough year, my insomnia partner that made me forget everything around me.

It's a bit strange to have to "finish it", but even started to see that I was losing too much time on it in details that, likely, few will be able to see and understand what is behind (thanks for the wake up call Mauro), but I think in reality I just did not want it to finish it.

Now it's time to move to the next project, later variants may appear more "epic" (according to my friend Mauro lolol), but this time making room for others to do their version

I hope you enjoy and thanks for watching and comment

Special thanks to João Ramalhete (for the support, advice and hugs ), Mauro Ferreira (by trying to show me that everything needs "Epicness"), and Pedro Pereira (for their help and patience to put up with me)

"But in the end the question is: can it do a bitchslap?"
-Mauro Ferreira

David

final image ~ 3600x2400 16bit tiff, Sketchup, 3DS Max, Vray, Photoshop

you can see more images (High resolution) of the project below:

[unigami]

This is frickin' AWESOME!

[sepo]

well done

[solo]

Now that's cool, thanks for the 'making of' images.

[mitcorb]

Mighty fine conceptual work, model and renders. Can that beast squat low enough to scurry out below the garage door?

[hellnbak]

Incredible work, love the details.
One question tho -- with the feet being so small, and the arms so large and so far out in front of the body, would it be able to use those arms for anything but walking without the whole "beast" tipping over?

[Stinkie]

That's extremely nice.

[dacad]

First thanks a lot for the kind words guys. I'm glad you like it

Mitcorb - I hope so... . I did the garage and robot with real measures values as reference. This is my own garage, and I went there to take photos and confirm measures a lot of times, that's why I had to make the garage bigger or the robot wouldn't fit in there (you can see that in the 2nd image from the bottom, I lost to much time on that manipulation making details that were a few pixels in size sometimes, so most probably no one would notice, so it wasn't really necessary but I had fun with it so it doesn't matter now). But the garage door is in a lower point than the top of the garage so the robot would have to get down a bit, but he's fully articulated so it should be possible (hey, in my head he can do it ).

hellnbak - In this version he would have to found a balance point. If you see the side view (notice the smaller side view, and not the one with the gorilla scheme), his legs are rotate more to the front so I imagine that if he would do something like dig with one hand he would have to use the other hand for support and the leg from the side the digging hand would have to be more pushed to the front (or something like it) for digging with the 2 hands he would just get down on ground and spread the legs to front and sides to give him support while digging).
But to be honest, when I idealized this robot he had a pair of extra (small) legs in front that would recoil while not in use and come out when needed, but it "braked" the design and the look I was after a bit, so yeah this was one of those moments when style came first that function

One again thanks for the comments and I'll try to get more images of the robot doing other things (that could be fun)

David

[hellnbak]

I didn't realize that this was a "earthworking" type robot, until I read your reply to my post. I just assumed that those massive arms were meant for more sinister things. That's what I get for assuming

Your work is amazing

[dacad]

@hellnbak said:

I didn't realize that this was a "earthworking" type robot, until I read your reply to my post. I just assumed that those massive arms were meant for more sinister things. That's what I get for assuming

Your work is amazing

Slaps according to my friends... (no one sees these helping in stuff like digging or construction, don't know why... )

Anyway I've found in my cellphone pictures, while looking for the new year party photos (by the way Happy new Year for you guys ), a picture when we took the photos for this project. You can see the "Photographer" (my friend Pedro Pereira) and the "Model" (my younger brother) discussing the Photos: "ohhh, shiny bottons..." and "Don't touch that!". Please also notice the extremely professional camera support made by IKEA...

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[android no. 12]

Incredible! good use of photoshop with CGI, and the model itself is very lifelike! I had trouble at first working out which bits were real and which were CGI, until I saw the handy images below

[dacad]

thanks a lot Android No. 12. Glad you like it

[RunnerPack]

Great idea and superb execution! I agree wholeheartedly with every positive comment posted above (to save me some time repeating them ).

There's only one thing that I would add: the hydraulic cylinders need hoses! I forgive you for not adding them, since I know how hard it is to model nice hoses/wires/etc., but if you want to take the realism ("epicness"? ) to the next level, that's my suggestion.

Thanks for sharing!

[Richard]

Wow dude! Your brother is REALLY an evil genius!! Genius must ran in the family!! Very Very Impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!!