Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Rafael Landim de Souza

[landim]

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Hi all
This is my first constest :)
I am thinking in doing a Kraken ... My influences are the Nautilus submarine (Jules Verne) and the mechanic spider of the movie Wild Wild West
I want to work more in concept to demonstrate best What do I think.
Sorry about my english. :/

[landim]

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segment of the tentacles

[landim]

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i couldn't handle my excitiness and built (test) with the incomplete tentacle segment. :)

[bandro]

cool designs man, its gonna look fantastic once it get put together!Best luck!

[victor22]

Wow man its is realy nice O.o

I will waiting for see it complete, should be incridible!!! :twisted:

See You later

[phoenix]

Hey Rafael this is pretty nice concept man, seems to have lot of potential as it evolves, love it... And good luck bro



Regards

[GerardDunleavy]

Wow!, very clever tentacle design, I can't wait to see what else you come up with

[landim]

Thank you guys, I am very happy to have liked this
The next update is this:


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This is a test with materials, I am not yet satisfied with the result and believe that this is not yet the final version

[keraj37]

it simple beauty - I like simple art it is rare in this time when machines can afford 90 000 000 polys:)

edit

Pls fix those wheels on reer side - thay are not connected corectly

edit2

ok now i can see between them there is going to be chain sorry

[landim]

keraj37, thanks for the comment.
The wheels are not connected... they are part of the mechanism of the cable for segment inpulse
like this:

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1227146162_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1227146162_large.jpg)

wheels (close Up)

[salmonmoose]

This is several kinds of awesome, I'm only sad you're not in the video category, because I'd LOVE to see those tentacles moving in detail :D

[balfs21]

Yeah...like it a lot!! I have always loved the look of underwater steampunk, it'll be good to see what you can bring to it!

Cheers

[oneandonlyDiscoStu]

hey there nice moddeling and and tentacle design

i guess i finally see it !

is the whole buildup in the rendered image with material just one of the suck on things!!?!(dont know the english name ^^) am i right?

i was looking at it a few times already and was thinking hmm where does that go in the concept :p

i really like the gold material already and am looking forward to more

[soapy]

Wow, very nice stuff. The sketch and designs are awesome.

[landim]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1227404962_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1227404962_large.jpg)

another update, this is a first segment of the tentacle

[landim]

Thanks guys.
salmonmoose, I would very much like to participate in the video category to see the tentacles too excited, I thought better not risk it because my computer is a simple desktop (Duo Core 2.8GHz + 1GB RAM + Radeon 9600), and I believe he did not support the animation processing and rendering.

oneandonlyDiscoStu, sorry man :( , my English is very poor and do not get it right your reply



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I'm still working on materials, this is more an update, is all procedural materials. I'm trying to create mud/seaweed fixed on metals

[neaps]

the tentacles look really cool..
and they suite the steampunk style two thumbs up from me so far


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[oneandonlyDiscoStu]

i just meant if this one of the pieces of the tentackle chain but i aready figured it was.
i really like your materials and renders keep up the brilliant work :)

[landim]

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another test with materials

[salmonmoose]

I understand - but that doesn't mean I can't stop wishing ;)

My biggest concern right now is that you're scaling everything, including the gears, once you come to actually running chains down the full tentacle, is it going to be overwhelmed by the size of the chain at the ends?

[landim]

I noticed this problem today morning, I still do not believe pass this detail so obvious.. :(
Now I have to fix, yet not imagine what is the best way. I tried not to scaling the gears, but has not been good, the difference between the first segment and the size of the gears is too big..
I need to learn another way to make that connection.

[salmonmoose]

I noticed this problem today morning, I still do not believe pass this detail so obvious.. :(
Now I have to fix, yet not imagine what is the best way. I tried not to scaling the gears, but has not been good, the difference between the first segment and the size of the gears is too big..
I need to learn another way to make that connection.

Perhaps start with the smaller gears only having 8 or so sprockets, and then as they get bigger changing the amount of sprockets?

You should be able to do this relatively easily and then scale the inner part of the wheel.

[landim]

Perhaps start with the smaller gears only having 8 or so sprockets, and then as they get bigger changing the amount of sprockets?

You should be able to do this relatively easily and then scale the inner part of the wheel.

Thanks a lot salmonmoose, your incentives and help is very important.
I agree, think this is the really best solution and I started to fix it

[sasquatch70]

This is going to be killer when your done. One of my favorites so far.

Excellent work Sir!

Brad

[landim]

sasquatch70: thanks man, I looked and their entry is very good

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1227831566_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1227831566_large.jpg)

I fixed the size of gears, I believe that this solves the problem of the scale of the tentacles segments

funny animation test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUKvw8UtLjg

[landim]

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Head wireframe

[landim]

Last week, I have to take a break from development, but now I am back.

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1228267527_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/22/16575/16575_1228267527_large.jpg)

render of head

[decosouza]

Hi Rafael.. many brazilians in this contest. Nice concept and very impressive details here. I hope I can do something as good as you're doing here. Looking great so far. I'll be waiting your upadates. All the best and good luck in the contest mate!http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon13.gif

[Silverbeam]

Wow, I really need to get crackin (kraken? OOOO pun....) on this... there's gonna be some good competition I see.....

[OZ]

intricate and beautifull stuff! i like materials a lot.

[warpv]

The detailing on this is amazing! :) I wonder how far away from the camera it will be in the final shot...it would be a shame to loose all these incredible details! Looking forward seeing this one progress!

[anostudio]

man that really amazing wow keep it up

[mrpeace]

Really Clean man...keep up the style!

[Scied]

Rafael your work is amazing love the attention to details! Very good piece of work so far! I love the fact that the Brazilian community joined largely this time around! And its so well represented! :deal: your Kraken ROCKS!:buttrock:

[Snowstorm]

If i have any criticism, it would be that the kraken's head looks rather fragile.

However, there is wonderful attention to detail in the piece so far.

[gpepper]

Huge amount of work here !
The details are amazing !
Probably the future best character of the contest !

[pauloduarte]

Very cool mechanicals design, good luck.

[DimitrisLiatsos]

very cool mechanical designs and i like the presentation piece by piece also..:)

[mahagnosis]

It's a very complex structure!!!
and it looks very beautiful, the golden color is very elegant and expensive looking ...
love it!

[angel]

This is looking very good, nice attention to detail and the color scheme works well as well.
I am too making a Kraken but I based mine more on the Ray Harryhausen version from "Clash of the Titans" good luck! :thumbsup:

[Nomad]

Exellent modeling so far :buttrock: great start, keep goin` :thumbsup:

[vichar]

hi nice work

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