Toy: TANK

[Frinsklen]

just curious, how long did this take you? and how would you animate the wheels? I can't figure out how that can be done... I'm sure there's some sort of modifier... :hmm:

very nice both of them, I like the first one the best, tho.
:thumbsup:

[F1Racer]

heh, these look great ! :)

Very cute and toy looking. I would definately like to see more vehicles like this.

Fun stuff, nice work.

[ilasolomon]

each about 1 to 2 hours (with shading & rendering), & the catterpilar is a path-deform mod :) so the animating is very easy! just animate the %!

[Joril]

Very cute, Ila!
I like the way both tanks have their own look according to their alignment :)

I"m hoping to see more!

[Jib]

As said Joril, it's really cute!!! :thumbsup:

Will you use them in a full scene like a Toy War ?

[azazel]

More ;)

[roosterjm2002]

I there other ways besides the path deform to do that though?

I mean, look at your treads, you'll see that those on the turns are stretched out bigger than the others...aand its really obvious when you animate it...i can never get around this...its annoying...

[ilasolomon]

I mean, look at your treads, you'll see that those on the turns are stretched out bigger than the others...aand its really obvious when you animate it...i can never get around this...its annoying...
:) hey you are very keen! (I see you are a web programer) yes that's a minor problem & can be fixed by curve's tangant handles later, I don't think it harms the overall lookign & the design.
anyway, is this the only thing that abuse you?! ;)

more to come...

[ilasolomon]

New Vehicle: APC

Image moved to the starting post.

[.gomes]

yes thats my flavour :)

good job :buttrock:

[PaxtonGerrish]

great stuff!! love the cartoony style :bounce:
hey this reminds me.. is that model you did for Alienz avaliable for download..? I need to brush up my maya keyframing skills for an upcoming job, and i thought i could do some animation tests for the short while i was at it... whooooaahh way off topic... il go ask in the alienz forum...
anyway.... great tanks!!!!
paxton

[saltank]

Wow that is really cool :beer:

Only thing is the logo looks abit out of place..engrave it or something =) Especially on the second and last pics, maybe change the light source so the texture of the bumps stands out abit..

[Dustin_Senos]

Haha these are sweet. The first one because of its shape and bump map looks like half an orange. haha.

[biffen]

I mean, look at your treads, you'll see that those on the turns are stretched out bigger than the others...aand its really obvious when you animate it...i can never get around this...its annoying...

I have this same problem in Max. Someone HAS to know a way around this. The treads are never the same size and its killing me.

Someone help us, please.

[Jonas8200]

Yeah, I'd like to know a solution to the 'Tread Problem'

Also, what do you use to render, bud? I'm assuming some version of GI.. Looks hot! More! haha :D

[Jonas8200]

Umm ok i browsed your site, and i'm assuming you lit the tanks with how your adv. lighting tutorials describe. Not a bad technique :)

[R.L.M]

hehe nice..
the first model is nicer..
you can add a little green toy soldier beside him..can be nice..
like in toy story 1..hehe

[winberg]

When you animate the % of threds along a path you have to put a "normalize spline" on the spline used for animating the threads, this is the only way to make the threads have the same velocity...

-Tom

[ilasolomon]

good point winberg :) tnx
Jonas8200 :D haha! no, not this time, it's VRay.
saltank, I keep that in mind. tnx
& thanks a lot to the others :beer:

[Caman0]

oh i definitely need to see more of those models :D

[PhilOsirus]

Yeah those are really cool, simple stuff can look great. Make more, maybe some battleship, aircraft carriers?:)

[ilasolomon]

:) I'm currently on ROCKET LAUNCHERS!

[Aearon]

hehe very nice idea ila, good way to take your mind off all the complex modeling :D

btw: in the first picture it looks like there's a thin transparent film around the flag decal, that makes it look much more integrated than the ones on pic 2 & 3

looking forward to those rocket launchers :)

*edit* *taking tomatoes off eyes*..

ok it's there on the other ones, but not that obvious, maybe make it a little wider ;)

[ilasolomon]

:wavey: Hi Fist ... yes I am boring of high detailed meshes...my next try will be abstract 3d artistic statues! ;->

ok, this is the first rocket launcher, I don't like it much, but the second will be better, I promise!

http://www.topleftpixel.com/ila/temp/R1_01a.jpg

[Signal2Noise]

Light 'em on fire and we can watch them melt! :bounce:

I like.:thumbsup:

[Rivendale]

Yes! They are very cool...:bounce:

I wanna see more stuff!

[biffen]

Ok, you obviously have two sides here... The Kingdom of Asterik and the United Rebublic of Bullseye. You REALLY need to take these guys and make a little battle animation.

Here's another good idea. I've been hearing alot about plug-ins like Project Mayhem (http://www.3dfestival.com/story.php?story_id=1192) recently. Well, you figure out where I'm going with this.

heh heh heh :buttrock:

[ilasolomon]

:) thanks for nice words ...
@ biffen: hahaha :D LOL! "The Kingdom of Asterik and the United Rebublics of Bullseye", that's really cool! A.K. vs. URB :thumbsup:

ok now the A.K. missile launcher ;)

http://www.topleftpixel.com/ila/temp/R2_01a.jpg

[altermind]

u know what would be fun... make a couple more tank types.. shrink em down.. and place them in a mini battle :)

[Caman0]

dood, that stuff is the shit!!!

i really like em

make something like a lil bunker or something, with a machine gun :)

oh wait wait, artillery
or an anti tank gun

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