ET's Pod Racer

[brianellebracht]

Here is ET on the Bike... My friend Kurt Modeled ET, he's not quite finnished, but I thought I would ad him to get your opinion. THanks
Brian

[brianellebracht]

Close up on the Thrusters...

[brianellebracht]

Here is the back of the engine
(there are two engines, but for faster rendering, I am only showing one right now...

[brianellebracht]

One last pic, its all white, you can see detail better.
Thanks,
Brian

[brianellebracht]

NO Comments?

[CGmonkey]

Hahaha so freaking awesome!

It's detailed and nice!!!

Nice idea!
nothing to say other than that actually ;)

Keep up the good work :drool:

[IMarshal]

Brian, that is incredible work! I love the detail.

When will we see the animation? hint hint hint :bounce:

I live in St Louis as well - was surprised to see that someone else around here does 3d. Sent you mail on cgtalk last week but didnt get a reply - check your box.

[MaDSheeP]

does ET use K&N Air Filters? can improve engine performance... :D

awesome model!!

[brianellebracht]

Hello. THanks for all of the replies. K&N, yeah he could get a few xrta horses out of those. lol. Maik box? I didn't know that there was a mail box here. As far as the animation I started the rigging tonight, I used the tutorial off of highend 3d for rigging a pod racer, and I used set driven key so that when you turned the engines or bike, the thursters would automaticly face the correct dirrection, I also wrote an expression for the front props. THey and contract and expand on the the hinges, witch you can see if you look really close, depending on how high it is off of the gound plane. I would really like to start posting my progress with the animation, but I don't have anywhere to post my test animations, if I put them on Geocities, I get kicked out because to many people try to look at it in to little time (bandwith). Let me know if you have any sugestions. THanks for all of your replies. If you don't mind send me an email at

Brian_ellebracht@yahoo.com (home) or
Bellebracht@ne.com (work)

It will be easier to get ahold of me.
THanks,
Brian

[brianellebracht]

I have to wake up in an hour to go to work. I was taking a break from setting this up for animation, so I made this, let me know what you think. Rendered in Maya, text and composition made in Photoshop. THanks,
Brian

[zzzrByte]

Cool work! :cool:

The exahust pipes need some more texture work though...

Do you plan to use it for an animation?
Will there be other pod racers?

[brianellebracht]

I am doing this for a matchmoving project. It took a while just to model this one so i think that this will be the only one that I am going to model. At least for right now. THanks,
Brian

[SmileAlwaze]

Wow that looks great. much better. Have you started animating yet? can't wait to see it. On the image where ET is flying infront of the moon, It looks like his arms are all mangled/broken. I don't know thats the first thing I noticed. Good work keep it up.
Lauren

[the_real_cabal]

LOL :D it looks marvelous :D great detail and a funny idea .....


greetings cabal

[brianellebracht]

COMPOSITE TEST, SORRY ABOUT THE COMPOSITION, JUST WANTED TO THROW THIS TOGETHER TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE, ITS THE FIRST PICTURE i COULD FIND. THANKS,
BRIAN
THESE AREN'T THE FINAL COLORS EITHER

HERE IT IS HIGHER RES...

http://forum.simplymaya.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=16113

[brianellebracht]

Well, here is the latest Et, I have been working on his skin texture, all the skin weights are finnished. Thanks,
Brian

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