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Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 13 Mar 2014, 16:03

Hi folks.
pugman1 and Dragneye are collaborating on...

(to be cont'd)

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 13 Mar 2014, 16:18

Yep this could be a long one

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 14 Mar 2014, 19:17

Two days work so far on him , Dragneye has not yet seen it he is away .
hope he gives it the ok -6 million poly model decimated down to 323.893 polys-
still a long way to go -
cheers Ralph

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 14 Mar 2014, 21:42

Nice start!
Interesting character you have created. Not sure if the two holes are necessary for each plate and having the same size also.
BUT who am I, let your partner decide.

Still it is an interesting start!

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 15 Mar 2014, 03:46

Beepin' cool dude!

Will email ya.

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 15 Mar 2014, 20:57

Ok, here we go.

For now, I share that we will have two robots. I'm gonna get a bit of work done this weekend.
After a bit of sketching, I used Blender's Grease Pencil to come up with this.

Then I add the single axis primitives and we're ready to go. I start from one sided view (usually the right side). This time I will create on the fly so lets see what this turns into.

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 16 Mar 2014, 05:30

Started working the verts in 3 dimensions now.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 16 Mar 2014, 11:01

Slow progress making all the panel on the base mesh.rigged in blender had a few probs with the possing
i had to weight paint alot and some parts distorted the mesh a bit to much but happy with this .

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 17 Mar 2014, 19:28

Slowly getting him the way i wnted ,still a long way to go .
poly count 839.358- if we do the final in zbrush polys dont matter how many if in blender i must reduce them .

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 17 Mar 2014, 21:54

Have you tried posing him inside zbrush? The distortions that appear will be centralized on the edge and you then can finesse those verts back where you want him. When one gets to 200k+ verts they become hard to see much less manipulate individually.
Ralph, it's always better to place models in their final pose at the start of the process when the poly count is low. When I first started, loved that there was no poly limit. Until I had to do something with that model. Then I realized, 'just cuz you can doesn't always mean you should'. So now for posed models the concept is finalized before I deal with details.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 18 Mar 2014, 07:23

I did pose him with a low poly mesh ,he is still posable now ,i deleted the main base mesh now he has just a extreem low poly
mesh inside ,all panels are seperate poly groups to do with what i like or need.
I thought we had agreed that the pose was ok ?

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 18 Mar 2014, 07:44

Here is a shot of the poly groups if needed i can retopo every panel ,but this is not a game model.

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 18 Mar 2014, 09:05

No no, I meant nothing abt Your pose. Just sharing with all a lesson I learned the hard way.

Do you have a low poly model of this? I'm still putting mine together.
Here's an update. I extrude a few verts here and there to define outlines, select squared off verts, and then hit F to create faces in edit mode. Blocking in faces.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 18 Mar 2014, 09:11

I can make him low poly if you need ,but as he is he goes into blender no prob and you can unrap
and uv every single panel .But that is alot of work .

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 18 Mar 2014, 10:12

Well what I was thinking that we need to flesh out the background so let's share what we come up with.
I'll Polypaint as a final and see what that comes out as. That way I forget about textures and just play painter.
As for low poly, I am geared always towards animation, so I always think in terms of low poly and air tight mesh.
Here's an update.
With those spikes you ain't gettin' anywhere near me boy

And... it would be cool that after we win the challenge,

our bots head down there to Stratos's air space whatever...
and show them who really controls the skies... and the ground.
Um, that's after we fix our lil differences.
(for the uninitiated, all Ima sayin' is... the final pic will help make everything make sense. I just figure that we add a lll' fun in the dialogue. And Steinie started anyway)

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 18 Mar 2014, 10:38

I dont need to get near you with this in my hands HE HE.
As for those planes i think i can do damage with this

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 20 Mar 2014, 11:05

Started working on the scene ,old warehous, so far here is the roof , no textures just lighting

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 22 Mar 2014, 16:29

Im making progress most of the textures done.I have know idea where Dragneye is
i have not heard from him for a while , no replys to my mails .Hope he is ok.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 23 Mar 2014, 04:10

Looking good.

I hope Dragneye isn't in jail in Panama.

Really I hope he is ok ... oh! there he is now in the Who's online box!

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 23 Mar 2014, 16:51

Hi here so far this is a render in blender with 500 samples . still a few textures missing and some to fix ,
Still waiting for my partners robot the contact between us is slow . This could all change not yet sure .
cheers Ralph..

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 24 Mar 2014, 01:28

lol... Ahh the fleetness of the aether. Had just come on to see what the latest was before I went into Blender Finis.

Wasted a bunch of time making his joints too complex. Will just go with this. Finalizing.
What ya think Ralph?
Sent you reply abt the warehouse.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 24 Mar 2014, 05:56

He is coming along just fine cant wait to see him finished

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 26 Mar 2014, 16:42

All textures finished i did a full render 2 hours looks good me texturing not my strong point
just need the robot from drew then i can post it up,he tends to disapere in the week ihear nothing
from him hope all ok .

I wated to post my version on the blender forum but i must wait till this is over, i think

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 26 Mar 2014, 17:38

Dragneye wrote:the fleetness of the aether

Sounds like the title of a book or movie.

pugman 1 wrote:wated to post my version on the blender forum

As far as the challenge goes it is your stuff and you can do whatever you want with it.

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 26 Mar 2014, 18:28

Hey guys. Yeah, like I told ya Ralph, I have limited time on the puter.
So... here's what happens when one tries to throw too many ideas into one robot. Not the best idea, but this is the final shape I guess. Have parented the pieces for now to help with posing and still need to work on details, but a good start to throw into the scene to work out size and pose.

So, pugman, let's talk textures. Will email ya.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 26 Mar 2014, 18:47

Dude,hes looking mighty fine , mine is old and battered , yours could be
High tech look,. Ill send you the render i did and the hight of mine then youcan pose him
.nice work

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 31 Mar 2014, 08:45

Here's the pose I'm going for. I see issues already but thought I'd share. Will take him into zbrush and see what I can come up with in there.

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 05 Apr 2014, 06:00

We're still in this. Just waiting to here from pugman.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 22 Apr 2014, 18:06

Here is maybe the final waiting for drews approval

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 23 Apr 2014, 02:17

Sent ya an email Ralph.

Well, what ya think boys? Not bad huh? All the cool texture work is pugman's. Pretty darn good I'd say.
Great work Ralph.

So.... The title is (pending approval)... "When Teamwork goes wrong"

PS: After I'm done kickin' your butt, how about we go over and mess that pretty nest Team Stratos cooked up? Whatta ya say???

he he heh hehe...

PSS: Dudes... Would be real cool animating a scenario like this. I'd be 'mooore than happy' (ahh. RIP George Carlin) to devote time on that.
Like Stratos's structure, with our bots and the one Steinie and Pugman worked on. Etc.
Just sayin'

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 23 Apr 2014, 05:40

Here's with a bit of touch up. Pugman, tell me if you like.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 23 Apr 2014, 07:25

I would say put this one up for the final ,nice work drew .
anyone know a good file packer .i want to send it but 175mb is way to big zipped 63 mb
still to big ?

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 23 Apr 2014, 14:26

Looking awesome!

The characters and textures are wonderful.

7zip can give you quite a bunch of compression formats and control. It's 7z format is good, and tars are also good. You can try the bit depth to shave of a few more megs.

Wetransfer is an easy way to transfer large files by email temporarily.

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 24 Apr 2014, 03:42

Thanks Draise.

Hey Ralph; put up the wireframe in the other thread, and we're done. Let's go have a beer.

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