Above & Beyond - Vehicle - Lukashi

[lildragon]

remember to always read the stickies fully, I've changed your thread title

[erilaz]

If you're doing a pimp-fly, I'd better make sure not to dis those fly-girls!:p :D

Great (if not insanely weird) idea!:thumbsup:

[AJ]

so far is to have a fly thats dressed-up as a pimp

I started doing a design for a poster of the very same thing when I was at college! A fly pimped up with a huge hat and cane, strutting down the street in a 70's blaxploitation style with the word "SuperFly" written across the top. I'll see if I can dig it up for you :D

[Lukashi]

nice!!! lol that would be helpfull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hypercube]

Hmm, while that sounds hilarious and a great idea for an image, not sure it goes with the challenge..but I'm sure you'll work it in somewhere..homemade bling-bling?

[Lukashi]

yah im gonna make the caddy out of little stuff u find around the house, for example, the body of the car is gonna be a cigarrette box

[hypercube]

Ah ok that makes perfect sense..I was actually thinking of making a plane out of a beer can for some roach racers/fighter pilots, but I think that's prolly too close to yours and zenzmurfy's..lotta bug power :)

Anyway look forward to seeing how this goes :D

[Lukashi]

Well i started modeling, hopefully ill have the fly done by tonight, amyways here is a early render...

[MikaelPersson]

wow. I dig him. :thumbsup:

[Lukashi]

This is the fly...

http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/3dstuff/fly.txt

This is the car thing...

http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/3dstuff/car.txt

[Lukashi]

more work...

[Lukashi]

tiny little update

[Koma]

the idea is cool ,and the modelling its okay at this point ,keep it up ...:bounce:

[Lukashi]

herees another one

[Lukashi]

a little costume change...i really should start working on the vehicle, but bah characters are a lot more fun :)

[Lukashi]

oops

[Lukashi]

ok ill leave the fly like this for a little bit and get started on the vechicle...

[Lukashi]

any critiques :) ?

[erilaz]

Needs a really HUGE belt buckle, maybe with the words "Pretty Fly" across it.

Oh, and some really chunky rings!

Great work lukashi!:D

[Lukashi]

Lol great idea ill go fix up the belt right now :)

[Lukashi]

hehe check it out :)

[MikaelPersson]

Where are the gold chains? Cigars? And the rings as mentioned.
I´ve always imagined them with white suits.

Nice progress.

[Aearon]

hey looking great :thumbsup:

i'd also prefer white clothes / black hat though, should look nice :)

on another note: the facets in the eyes don't look too good
you're using max to model right ? ;) try using a geosphere for the eyes and just scale it down on one axis, geospheres have triangular faces, should look more natural then the quads you have there

[prayas]

lol puff "the fly" diddy?
He is really cool! Why you want white chlothes? He looks even more cool with this.

Wondering what his vehicle will be ?

[Lukashi]

Mikael P. Ok ill add more gold and change him into white clothes thx for the input :)

Fist: I think the prob with the eyes ur mentioning is the bump map, maybe i need to rework it...

Prayas here is the vehicle in progress ( the main body is a cigarette box)

[Lukashi]

and heres how it flies...

[Lukashi]

hmmm i changed it a little bit, its still in concept stages, any input is very welcome :)

[Lukashi]

starting to detail it in

[MikaelPersson]

I really like your tiny flying machine. Hard to give any crit at this moment. You should probably model a cigarette logo on the box, to make it clear what it is.

[Lukashi]

thanks micheal, heres some texturing :)

http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/tattaa.txt

and heres another one lol

http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/lol.txt

[MikaelPersson]

Cool. Lets replace those guys in the back with flies now.

Maybe you should have a heap of cow dung lying around somewhere?

[erilaz]

Hey, I'm glad you put that buckle in!!:D
You need to ramp up some of those polys in the front. The circles have very noticable edges close up. Or are they supposed to have a cut-out look?

And maybe, just to save time on your part, render your results in scanline. At this stage brazil is probably unnecessary. Just a suggestion!:D

I'm really liking the originality of this piece. The cigarette box is a very cool idea!:thumbsup:

[Lukashi]

Mikael - Good idea with the cow dung, but the piece is gonna be flying once its done, i dont know if it would work, maybe just have some on the ground

Erilaz- Hmmm thx i never noticed how low poly it looks, but it looks ok from far away so i wont play with it for a little while, prob till the final render

Anyways today ill try to work on the ballon, rutter, speakers, and maybe even one of the girl flys

[Lukashi]

alright rigging the fly

[Lukashi]

Lowww riddaaa:airguitar http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/car2.txt

[erilaz]

Will your fly-girls have spider-web fish net stockings?:D

For an interesting touch you could add a piece of sticky tape to make the windshield, and have mites or some other really small insects stuck against it, like flies squish against our windshields!

Coming along brilliantly Lukashi! (oh, and you probably should have a some blue in that flame of yours. Just a suggestion):thumbsup:

[Lukashi]

Thanks Erilaz, Yah so far ive steched one fly girl thats going to have those string stalkings, (i think thats like what u mentioned) The tape is a great idea! Im going to add that in sometime soon thx :)

[hypercube]

This is looking hilarious, really like it so far..

Main crits I can think of right now are the relative scales of the items involved though..I really like what pieces you're using, like the straws on the 'engine', tooth flosser, etc. but a lot of the pieces are odd, if that is a single pack of cigs, the lighter would be much bigger, the pencil to bottle cap ratio seems ok, but not to the pack..same thing for the flyswatters, they seem small next to the other items. Maybe if the body is cut out of and pieced together from a carton of cigs? ie mismatch the label pieces, etc.

just some thoughts..

[Lukashi]

aaah ur right hyper cube!, hmm, ill think a way around it, in the meantime, need to make some flygirls

[Lukashi]

Ok i decided who im going to model the girls after, If any of u have ever seen the show "Kids in the Hall" Then this will mean something to u, :scream: :p :beer:

If on the other hand uve never seen the show this wont mean much, anyways heres Jocelyn and Maudre

[Lukashi]

well heres one of the fly girls, needs work i guess...

[Lukashi]

oh yah and hair needs that too

[AroundTheFur]

haha kids in the hall, 'females' The lighter is too small, along with the fly swatter and straws, but very original idea, im likin the idea the best so far so make it good!

[Lukashi]

uuugh sorrry guys havent posted in a while, max corrupted my save files, got really angry at the program and im slowly converting to maya, if im quick enought ill try to finish the scene in maya, prob render it in max thought....well whatever ill convert quickly

[Lukashi]

uuh right:rolleyes:

[Lukashi]

if anyones knows how to open max stuff in maya, that would help too :)

[erilaz]

AHAAHAHAAHHAAA! Opening max in maya. Oh my sides!:D

But seriously, I think the closest you've going to get from max to maya conversion (unless you export the meshes) is polytrans. And that costs big bikkies. Probably not worth the effort. I've been looking for a tool like that for about a year now, except to go the other way!! Frustration!!! :scream:

How did your files get corrupted? What is the error?
Oh, and great work on the fly-girls.

[Lukashi]

heres the thing, i dont really care if i can edit them, i just want to see my models in maya, they can be all in .3ds or whatever i dont plan on editing them, just adding new stuff

The error was cannot open file: Filename.max, iono weird i think max just shut off randomly and then i tried to open the file and it said that,

its kinda ok since i have lots and lots of backups, but im trying to convert to maya anyways cause 3ds max bugginess annoys me :(

And finally thanks :)

[erilaz]

Have you checked the space on your drives (especially your system drive) lately? If there isn't at least a few megs free (not sure of the size, probably 20-50 or so), you'll get that message. I had a similar problem, then I frred up my c: drive and sundries, and it opened no probs.
Can you open any of your files? If so you can just do a 3ds or obj export.

Other than than, polytrans or deep exploration!:D

I hope this helps!:wavey:

[Lukashi]

hmm yah i can open all my max files except that one...so maya imports .obj eh, kew! thanks man

[erilaz]

I'd hope that it does. It's the native export for maya!

My last suggestion is the autobak files in your max auto backup directory(Unless you turn it off, like I do!:D ), or try to MERGE the corrupt scene into a blank scene from assest browser. Both these have had some success!

Most likely though, if the others work then that file is screwed.
I'll stop bugging you with my helpful, if not hindering hints!:hmm:

[Lukashi]

lol nah man tips are very appreciated =p, anyways ill try to rescue them like u said, and no it didnt make an autoback :(

[Lukashi]

whats that hellrendeR?

[freemind77]

Get 3ds plugin for maya on aliaswavefront.com , it helps a lot ;-)

[Lukashi]

right well i got bored of the fly thing :p so i started working on a flying dragon vehicle anyways heres a little pic

[Lukashi]

starting to add a steam engine

[Lukashi]

yet another update

[Lukashi]

righteo heres yet another update, made it look a bit better :)

[Lukashi]

mmm tubes! :)

[erilaz]

That's Pretty!:D

Nice clock-work sort of look. I like!

[Clanger]

I was enjoying your first creation but I do think the dragon is better. The single colour works better as well.
One to watch.

[Lukashi]

Update Added:
*Wings
*flight system
*underbelly
*lots of extra gears

Whats needed
* Support beams
*dragon head
*dragon tail
*Driver

Actually any suggestings on the driver would be appreciated im not sure how to make him at this point

[Lukashi]

heres a shot of the engine area

[Lukashi]

im thinking of adding a bunch of ropes and stuff, for support or whatever...actually nah support is fine, ropes just look kew, whatcha guys think?

[otacon]

I like all the details.:thumbsup: Where is the driver going to sit?

[Lukashi]

well ill add a neck tonight hopefully and he'll prob sit there

[Lukashi]

sure there are better models out there, but whose is worth this much $$ :beer:

[sarfarazsoomro]

looks great:thumbsup:

[Lukashi]

thx, lighting needs lots of work gonna try to work on a head

[Lukashi]

heres where i am...

[Lukashi]

heres where i plan to go.,..

[Lukashi]

eeerr forgot to put it up, anyways im mad tired, so gnight to all u cgtalkers and post some critiques : )))))))))))

[otacon]

Nice. Looks like a mix of organic and mechanical.:bounce:

[Lukashi]

some retexturing...

[creepyalex]

looks nice, i really like the lighting:thumbsup: :applause:

[Ingram]

Very inventive. I can see the caption now: In a world where dragons inspired flight...:thumbsup: The driver needs to have a flamethrower in the "head" that would be fun then he could strike fear into the hearts of those persons attached to the ground.

[Lukashi]

Excelent idea Ingram, i was wondering how to make fire shoot out, i was going to make the dragon have a fire exhaust but it didnt fit or make sense, thats for the tip :)))

[Lukashi]

dragon head being made, looks kinda outa place, but trust me guys ill make it fit :scream:

[Lukashi]

ok a little update, id enjoy some constructive criticism

[MikaelPersson]

I think what´s bothering me is his legs. They are to thin to carry that heavy body. Transfer that construction to something atleast twice as big.

[Lukashi]

ok a little updatehttp://www.geocities.com/lukashi/dragon.txt

[tascitus]

nice work lukashi. i would like to see the ties on the wings be more form fitting. keep it up.:beer:

[Lukashi]

thx tascitus...k ill work on the wings sometime soon

[Lukashi]

http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/dragon2.txt

ok heres an image ill fix up the lighting in a little bit, some crits would be nice :)

[otacon]

Cool.:thumbsup: In a way it reminds me of the time machine....with all the gears and the golden color. I agree on the lighting....it needs a little work.good job.

[Lukashi]

thx otacon, personally i like the mood of the scene im just not liking the black spots, ill post a couple updates tomorrow

[erilaz]

Nothing to see here folks... nothing to see hereeeeeer-OH MY GOD! A huge mechanical dragon! Crowd around guys! C'mon, don't be shy, crowd around!:D

That thing is fantastic. I must have missed the transition from a few gears and the wings to this beautiful beast.

Stunning Lukashi!:thumbsup:

[Lukashi]

thanks Erilaz thing is i wasnt online for a while but when i was doing a lot of touch ups, ill post the new update tonight along with a close up of the soldier. :p

[Lorenzo]

a lot of details.
In your picture that the movie of the cohen Brother, I see this movie about 3 years befor, its funny.:beer:
nice to see you come back from the last challenge

[Lukashi]

Thanks Lorenzo, :)

ok heres a update
http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/newoneo.txt

and heres a dif view on the scene

http://www.geocities.com/lukashi/nighto.txt

some comments would be welcome :)

[3D Freak]

Looks Great man!!! :thumbsup: The daytime scene is much better IMO. I thinks it shows more of the details of your great model. :beer:

[Lukashi]

Thx 3d Freak, myself i like the details in the day scene, but i like the mood of the night scene =p

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