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AJ
07-15-2007, 11:45 AM
http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/124/124_1184499919_medium.jpg

Title: Ballet-bot
Name: Alex Jefferies
Country: United Kingdom
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop, VRay

Some people might remember this guy, I created him (or her) for the Master & Servant challenge a while back & never got round to finishing him.
With the new challenge under way & such a fantastic topic, I instantly wanted to join in... However, I've entered so many challenges & not finished, that I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't even THINK about strange behaviour until I'd finished this guy off, so here it is!
I made some changes to my original composition, the 'Master' character is gone & the robot is now dancing on an oil drum. I changed the design slightly too, making the robot more beaten & dirty. I wanted there to be a stark contrast between the filthy world the robot lives in & the world of a ballerina.
Modelling was done in Max 7 & Max 9, rendered in V-Ray 1.5 & all textures created and/or manipulated in Photoshop. The bases for many of the textures came from www.environment-textures.com - an excellent resource - and some were from many, many photos I've taken over the years.
The final image is about 3500 pixels high, so I'll post some close up crops later on...
As this is the first personal project I've completed in about 5 years, feedback would be most welcome!
:D

Artist-Lounge
07-15-2007, 08:39 PM
Amazingly nice concept and very stylish .. :thumbsup: 5*
Also material is great :)

Guillermo
07-15-2007, 08:46 PM
Great originality! I really like it :thumbsup:




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Silverwing
07-15-2007, 09:12 PM
He he this is so funny!
Great sense of motion and amazing
materials and lighting! I love your
picture. The concept is great... he he.
4* from me!

radoxist
07-15-2007, 10:06 PM
great image man :) very professional :applause:

AJ
07-15-2007, 10:12 PM
Thanks for the comments guys. :)

Here are some crops of the full res image

http://moonjam.users.digital-crocus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Images/3D/balletbot/BB_Crops.jpg

And a wireframe of the scene:

http://moonjam.users.digital-crocus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Images/3D/balletbot/BB_Wire_GI_01.jpg

Cheers!

AJ

Yav
07-15-2007, 10:37 PM
absolutely brilliant!

Pretender
07-15-2007, 10:56 PM
Excellent !!

L33tace
07-15-2007, 11:01 PM
Encore! Encore! :applause:
well done, you should finish more projects. :)

Intervain
07-15-2007, 11:11 PM
awww and it has a pink tutu, bless it's little antenna! :)

mv
07-15-2007, 11:13 PM
super cool AJ ! !

Sheff
07-15-2007, 11:16 PM
Funny mech :) , can you show us some hi-res picture of it, it's interesting to look on every detail of it :rolleyes:

HaiQu
07-16-2007, 12:28 AM
i like this one :)

visionmaster2
07-16-2007, 01:45 AM
simple and elegant.

:applause:

milannnnnnnn
07-16-2007, 03:23 AM
amazing !
great work.good concept
i like modeling,lighting,textureing,scene,...
4/87 * !!!:thumbsup:

Per-Anders
07-16-2007, 03:27 AM
Nice work AJ - plugged.

DaddyMack
07-16-2007, 05:15 AM
Awesome finish... The original is still among my favourites:thumbsup:

zhaolv
07-16-2007, 05:17 AM
wonderful idea!nice texture!

erilaz
07-16-2007, 05:39 AM
Great stuff AJ, awesome use of texture. Really good to see it finalised!

Now get onto your challenge! I wanna see strangeness! :scream:

urgaffel
07-16-2007, 05:42 AM
Aww it's so cute! Excellent image AJ and it's great to see you finished something :D Makes me feel slightly ashamed of that robogirl project I've been working on for 4 years now... Maybe I should take a leaf out of your book and finish it on the 5 year aniversary ;) Again, excellent image and I hope you'll be submitting it to Expose and the likes! (You'd better...;))

agv
07-16-2007, 05:43 AM
Fun concept and perfect execution. Five stars! How did you create the slipper shader?

MVDB
07-16-2007, 06:19 AM
fantastic work!

I bet you'll be in the award gallery with this one soon!

Great stuff!

Vexona
07-16-2007, 07:02 AM
amazing, 5 stars
the style, the idea and concept
and I love the wireframe, then to see the final render,
really shows how awesome your lighting/texturing is.

GI-JOe2k
07-16-2007, 07:07 AM
very funny picture, great job. all in your scene is perfect. ;)

OSBOURNE
07-16-2007, 07:38 AM
very very nice object and nice material .

mamat
07-16-2007, 07:40 AM
amazing works, ! 5 stars!!

Paul-M
07-16-2007, 07:47 AM
Superb! :D
5 stars:thumbsup:

PavelPetrenko
07-16-2007, 08:01 AM
I like this idea, very nice details, textures and ligting! Great work! :thumbsup:

SpaceTik
07-16-2007, 08:03 AM
Love the details man! it would have made a great entry to "strange behaviour"

imtilongchar
07-16-2007, 08:12 AM
Congrats for the front page! totaly deserve it. Just love the texturing on the pink shoe .4 stars from me.

turx
07-16-2007, 08:34 AM
what a beautiful lady, oups bot =)
like it very much!

mushroomgod
07-16-2007, 08:50 AM
outstanding work m8, totaly deserves the front page plug!

5*****

Miezis
07-16-2007, 09:08 AM
the hi-res detail is rather amazing, nice textures and a clean work overall! 5*!!!

Scob
07-16-2007, 09:40 AM
So huge !!!
Awesome work !!
Love it ! ^^ :bounce:

Neox3d
07-16-2007, 10:13 AM
nice image, girly pink with metal is a good contrast, nice background too. good work

k4karthik
07-16-2007, 10:37 AM
***** frm me....

JackZhang
07-16-2007, 10:45 AM
excellent work AJ! what an interesting piece! strange behavior! lol
congra mate for making the front page!

PhuongDPh
07-16-2007, 11:12 AM
very nice, I like this style.
and sometime I also can't finish some works or finish them slowly. http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon10.gif

AJ
07-16-2007, 11:24 AM
Thanks for all your comments guys, I really appreciate it!

And thank you Per-Anders for my first ever front page plug! :D

To answer a few questions...

[/url]Sheff - I'd love to post the whole high-res image, however I don't think my bandwidth could take it plus you never know what unscrupulous people might do with a piece of your artwork at a usable print resolution.

Erilaz - Yes, I will hopefully be able to start work on my challenge entry in the next couple of days. And who knows, maybe actually finish it 3 years later!

urgaffel - Thankyou. It does feel good to have actually finished something of my own for once! In fact, I remember you hounding me to texture/finish my Ghost in the Shell model about 6 years ago :blush: - now, stop reading and finish that robot!

agv - The slipper shader is a [url="http://moonjam.users.digital-crocus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Images/3D/balletbot/BB_SlipMat.gif"]vray material (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=12603) with anistropic highlights, a tiled gradient ramp for the bump & nested in VrayBlend material so I could dirty them up with some 'rust dust'.

http://moonjam.users.digital-crocus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Images/3D/balletbot/BB_SlipperViewportMaps_r.jpg

SpaceTik - As soon as I saw the topic of Strange Behaviour for the challenge I thought "I wish I'd finished that ballet dancing robot...", plus i noticed that a few people were throwing around ballerina conepts & I wanted to get this done before anyone made a dancing robot! :D

Here's a couple of viewport grabs, nothing too spectacular in them though!

http://moonjam.users.digital-crocus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Images/3D/balletbot/BB_TuTu_Closeup.gif

http://moonjam.users.digital-crocus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Images/3D/balletbot/BB_EyeViewport.jpg

Again, thank you for all your comments!

AJ

soolmix
07-16-2007, 12:03 PM
amazing work realy i like the style

i want to know how you made the glow light by this way

snowkiwi
07-16-2007, 01:30 PM
Congrats Alex. A finished piece is always a really good thing. The textures are really well done. This would be great in an animation.

ekah
07-16-2007, 02:40 PM
Would have made a wonderful Strange Behavior entry. Love the bot. The poor thing. :)

angel
07-16-2007, 03:41 PM
Hey of course I remember this guy! Loved it back then love it now. ;)

Congrats.

hugodesign
07-16-2007, 04:14 PM
Very nice image! ;) Good work.

unwrap
07-16-2007, 05:48 PM
Fantastic work and amazing level of detail. Congrats and also congrats on your choice award in advance :twisted: !

gu
07-16-2007, 05:52 PM
wonderful work! the lighting is the one that I like mostly, there´s a fine combination of colors

congratulations friend!

gusss

Washek
07-16-2007, 06:20 PM
Hi
awesome job :D nice and funny, great job :bounce:

Djampa
07-16-2007, 06:23 PM
Wow... I'm complaining about not having much time for personal artworks... you spent 5 years without any personal job!? Well... you did a Master Piece ! Great return to personal artwork !
Congratulations on the FP too !

So creative, so nice... 5 stars !

Kei-Acedera
07-16-2007, 06:47 PM
That's the cutest robot! I love how the ballet shoes are plump! Great work Alex!!

D-E-A-N
07-16-2007, 08:09 PM
great work, really funny. :thumbsup:

jerry123
07-16-2007, 08:44 PM
ha...i love it,its been a long time since i saw something i really like
its really nice...
i think the pose can be better,its a bit broken in a way that makes
it seem a bit frozen.

GUNTHO
07-17-2007, 12:51 AM
Great work. Congratulations!! **** from me

hamburgerlar
07-17-2007, 12:56 AM
Everytime I see this little bot I just laugh. Great way to bring 3d to life.

simmsimaging
07-17-2007, 04:30 AM
Great piece.

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IanWharton
07-17-2007, 12:47 PM
That's awesome. Love the concept. 5 *'s

ReBootedOne
07-17-2007, 03:40 PM
Aww, I remember when you first started this project..

It came out great! It's absolutely adorable. ^_^

-eric

Raul-Reznek
07-17-2007, 04:23 PM
very nice work

y-art
07-17-2007, 06:20 PM
Excellent idea!!!
Really nice ambiance and lighting

:)

steven.qian
07-17-2007, 07:32 PM
nice style ,Amazingly

Blaschke
07-18-2007, 11:24 AM
:scream: great work!

TP
07-18-2007, 11:58 AM
super work , this is just stunning and gr8 idea , 5 stars

newellteapot
07-18-2007, 01:48 PM
stylish and funny!

valonj
07-18-2007, 05:59 PM
very nice render man i really like it:thumbsup:, the glowing effect is so good, can you tell us how you make it, photoshop ? thanks

fellah
07-19-2007, 01:41 AM
so after 5+ years we finally see a finished piece from you, AJ!! worth the wait though, love it.
and i heard rumors that you might enter the challenge?! if you dare to enter and you will have to feel the :wip: :wip: :wip:

CUTBBKK
07-19-2007, 01:52 AM
good light!all nice

DaJuice
07-21-2007, 06:30 AM
Alex, this has got to be the nicest still image I've seen posted here in a long time. Modeling wise it's fairly simple, but the lighting & shading are just 100% quality. Amazing work dude! :thumbsup:

kengsing
07-25-2007, 03:40 AM
this is cool man :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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