HARDCORE MODELING!: 80's Cartoon:Voltron

[Julez4001]

Go, Snows, go!
I know you got the skills .......

[WyattHarris]

Good luck Snows. You've certainly got the experience for Voltron.

[angel]

thx for the encouragement!

here is a few ref images... I'll be doing a lot of improvising here as I model since the best images are from comic books. I'll be using the far top right and far top left as my main references. Time to get this started.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_ref.jpg

[RageOfAges]

So are you gonna model Voltron as a whole or The individual Characters?

-Rage

[japetus]

Good luck Snows! I'm trying the challenge also! Voltron is sweeeeeet!!

[angel]

Hey guys, I'm not gonna make the lions separately, I'll make Voltron as a whole, maybe I can finish on time by doing it that way.

Here is what I have so far... not much but at least its under way.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_001.jpg

[angel]

continued working on the torso...

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_002.jpg

[angel]

made the hips and upper legs, tweaked some of the chest proportions. Now it is time to "form feet and legs!" lol, sry, couldn't resist.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_003.jpg

[WyattHarris]

"form feet and legs!"
Lol, nice. Looking accurate so far.

[japetus]

Lookin' good so far! Can't wait to see how the tigers turn out!

[angel]

I know I said I was gonna start modeling the legs but I just felt like getting the face started... the face was more challenging than I thought it would be... I started over twice and deleted big chunks until I was happy with the direction. I need to fix some kinks and small bulges on the cheek (you can see it on the far right image).

As always comments are welcomed.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_004.jpg

[sagleon]

This looks to be promising Mr. Snows. Don't forget to include the theme music audio file with your image when you're done.

[razeverius]

Cool :buttrock:. I'm missing old cartoons :p

[japetus]

Head looks great! But I feel like the face might be too feminine? I'm not sure, can't find good enough views of Voltron's face. Maybe you should double check the corners of the eyes to make sure. Otherwise good luck! It's coming along nicely!

[angel]

Yeah, that was what I was thinking, although in the cartoon it seems a little feminine but that's just MHO. Let see what it looks like once I make the black lion's head and I'll make adjustments. thanks for the crit:thumbsup:

[WyattHarris]

I think its the lips, too soft. But your right, Voltron definitely has a feminine look in his face.

[angel]

ok, here I tweaked the eyes, the top edge is more straight now I also tweaked the lips a little as Wyatt suggested.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_005.jpg

[SteveTsang]

Great work on the model so far :) I used to love watching this show. I'm interested to see what proportions you'll be doing the arms in relationship with the legs - Voltron always seemed to have puny arms compared to it's huge legs :p

Good luck.

[WyattHarris]

Looking good Snows. :thumbsup:

[Geta-Ve]

Looking good Snows. :thumbsup:

Agreed. No crits from me as of yet.

[sanketpro3d]

luks like a gud n clean start ... mesh flow is luking gud .. this guy will be a must watch..
all the best ..

[angel]

Thanks for the comments guys :thumbsup:

I worked on the black lion's head... without orthos this is definitely taking a long time.

Let's see how the arms turn out, the leg lions are indeed larger than the arm lions and keeping everything proportional is an issue.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_006.jpg

[WyattHarris]

Yeah yeah, that is looking sweet! Man, I forgot how much I loved this cartoon as a kid.

[RageOfAges]

Your voltron makes me want to call up my folks and get them to rummage through my old boxes of toys and send 'em to me!

He still looks feminine, though. Perhaps bring the cheek bones out a little. It might not match your reference, but if it gives you the look you want then that's the important part.

-Rage

[japetus]

aw man lion helmet is sweet! Lookin' great! I like the head a lot more too.

[angel]

@ Wyatt, thx! I put this show in my Netflix cue, my son is gonna love it!:D
@ japetus thx buddy!
@ Rage I know what you mean... better get in touch with your folks before they give it all away... mine did, original star wars toys, transformers, oh boy I think I'm gonna pass out again... anyway, if I have time I'll revisit the face and tweak it more, there are still 4 lions and a sword to make ;)

I wasn't able to do much tonight, made the neck and fitted the head to the torso to see how it was jiving.
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_007.jpg

[Geta-Ve]

Wow, that looks slick! Very clean. I can't see anything to criticize at this point, so good job mate! :D

[angel]

thx Michael!

after a couple of days I finally was able to get a couple of hrs to work on this guy. Here is the body of the Yellow Lion. next the head. I think I'll be able to pose the legs and arms lions separately, the black lion will not work due to the wacky proportions in robot mode...

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_008.jpg

[RageOfAges]

Looks great with the head attached, snows. And from this angle it doesn't look feminine at all, IMO. What are you using as a modeling app, if I may ask?

-Rage

[Julez4001]

Looks great with the head attached, snows. And from this angle it doesn't look feminine at all, IMO. What are you using as a modeling app, if I may ask?

-Rage


Why the application that had subdivision surfaces and its workflow since 1995:

LIGHTWAVE



When all other apps thought that splines was the future.

[angel]

HA! I'm indeed modeling in Lightwave, but I'm also using Maya, I will UV unwrap, texture, light and render in Maya although rendering in LW is not out of the question.

Each one has its pro's and con's. I'm just a faster modeler in LW ;)

[angel]

Yellow's front legs
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_009.jpg

[Geta-Ve]

Very nice sir, you are doing an excellent job! this should be pretty spectacular when it is done.

[angel]

Thanx Geta-Ve!

Here is Yellow, no tail... might make one if I end up making an image of the Lions.
bellow is in Leg form.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_010.jpg
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_011.jpg

[japetus]

awesome!!! keep it up!!

[energise]

Nice Voltron man!

It´s really cool that you´ve done the lions in animal pose before attaching them to voltron!
Would be awesome to see an animation of the transformation :P

ooo by the way! You would be my hero if you told me how you made your signature at the bottom of your posts! =D
As you can see I can only get the entire linktext to show. I want my own text to show instead of the link.. =(

Keep up the nice work!

[angel]

thanks man, really appreciate the feedback.

for the link... in your user profile go to signature then type whatever you want the link to be, select it and then click on insert link button, paste the url that's it ;)

[vshen]

man that's really starting to take shape can't wait to see the whole thing. If you finish early are we going to see a robeast?

[SteveTsang]

Dude! Sweet update :D

[WyattHarris]

Just got Voltron from the library and my son saw it for the first time. It took 10 sec and he was hooked. I acted out the blazing sword animation and he said, "This is better Dad" and he did the part after Voltron forms and all the lion heads roar at the screen. "This is way cooler than Power Rangers!" "It sure is son, it sure is." :D

I'm really excited to see that the lion modeled and done forms the leg without any tweaking. The cartoon always took liberties to fit them together tightly but it looks like they didn't need much. Except the black lion, as you say, of course.

Really looking good Snows.

[energise]

Thanks alot man!!

The signature links works perfectly now!

I owe u one... or two ;)

[samartin]

Love the fact that you are doing all the technical modelling (hard surface) in subD's, man after my own heart!

Out of interest why do you choose this method?

The ability to zoom into any area and up-res? (that's my reason for doing it)

*edit*

Sheeet, I just realised your latest post is the leg! Good going so far and hope you get finished in time!

[Geta-Ve]

Looking fantastic, though from the angle of the latest pic it looks as if his front legs don't tuck in quite properly?

I just remembered that a japanese friend of mine had given me the yellow tiger/leg a long time ago and for the longest time I was under the assumption that it was the yellow power rangers tiger... :D

Good times. and superb modeling!

[angel]

@ vshen, it has crossed my mind but not a complete robeast maybe one cut in half showing all of the mechanical guts as Voltron cuts it with the sword, that would be cool!:D but I don't think I'll have the time to take it that far.

@SteveTsang, japetus, thx guys!

@Wyatt, that's awesome! I can not wait to get it and watch it with my son, although he is into SW and the Clone Wars so he might not be too impressed with Voltron, either way, I'm looking forward to that :)

@energise :thumbsup:

@samartin, yeah pretty much the same, for things that will end up as hi-res renders I usually model in this fashion, gives me the freedom to choose what to be hi res and what could be less, specially when I don't have a composition thought out.

@Geta-Ve, I know what you mean, in the cartoon, like Wyatt mentioned they took plenty of "liberties" to make everything fit, they would get rid of most of the legs, they would just vanish! LOL so what I decided to do was come up with a mixture of the 2, cartoon and toys. The Lion legs are based more on the action figure and the front legs basically become the heel of the foot. There is always room for improvement tho; I can revisit that after all the limbs are modeled.

Thanks for the coments and feedback guys! Keep 'em coming.

[RageOfAges]

looks like there's some clipping with the front legs and the body of the lion (in leg form).
No crits apart from that. Very cool that they actually transform logically.

-Rage

[angel]

aarrrrgh, you are right Joel, the little inside corner is interpenetrating, it might leave a larger gap tho, let me see what I can do. Thx!

Here is Blue:
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/Voltron_012.gif

[angel]

I wanted to see what the proportions were looking like...

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_012b.jpg

[Oberyn]

Looking awesome! :D

[razeverius]

awesome! im beginning to remember my childhood days lol

[Geta-Ve]

Sweeeet! Looking fantastic sir. No crits!

[angel]

hey, I'm baaaack.

it was a tough week at work so had no time to work on this till now. Here is what I have for Green. The head is next.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/Voltron_013.gif

[WyattHarris]

Looking sweet Snows. Green Lion was always more distinctive to me, stood out more in my head for some reason.

You've probably seen this in the reference but just remember on Voltron that green lion is turned to the left and red lion is straight ahead.

[vshen]

Good job on the voltron progress so far. It brings so much childhood memories because it's probably my fave cartoon of all time. Will you be texturing the model for your final presentation?

[angel]

@ Wyatt, yes the Green one kinda stands out and I think its because of its round shape, the other ones are square.

@ vshen, thx! due to my job I don't think I'll have the time to texture it as well but I will be definitely be texturing and lighting it afterward and perhaps make an illustration... I've been thinking on cool heroic poses lately.

[Geta-Ve]

Nice! Keep up the hard work snowman! :D

[angel]

Thanks for all the comments guys:thumbsup:
I have finished Green. I modeled some detail inside the mouth in case I go with the classic Green roar. Time to make Red, the last lion!

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/Voltron_014.gif

[sagleon]

This is really coming together.

[vshen]

This is making me more anxious in seeing them as a whole! Looking Great! Hopefully you do have time to texture this beast butif you can't I'll be looking forward to seeing this textured after the challenge.

[theKid123]

dude .. your voltron is coming together ... very detail in the mouth of the green lion, can't wait to see the combine mode for this ... keep it up !!!

[energise]

Yeah this is totally awesome! wish i had the patience for tiny detail =P must say the joints of the legs are really cool and ofcourse the inside of the mouth!

It is cool to see that your keeping the topology very clean aswell! cant live with em quads, cant live without em! ;)

ooo and thanks for the network add =) nice to be on the same team captain!!

[WyattHarris]

Nice, you even added the blowtorch in his mouth. That'll at least add a little bit of reality to the weapons they seemed to make up every week. :D

[angel]

thanks guys! :thumbsup:

you know I didn't remember that it was a blowtorch! I just went with a mix from the reference I have. Does anybody happen to know what (if any) weapon does Red uses (besides the sword)? I was gonna use the same type of deal for Red's mouth but it might be different in the cartoon, is it unique?. Since Red will be holding the sword I might be able to get away using the same geo as green.

[WyattHarris]

Red and Green both have blowtorches in the mouth. But then they also fire missiles and lasers etc etc.

[razeverius]

oh man this is one of the posts thats exciting to always look at when yahoo mail says a post was made here :buttrock:

[angel]

thx Wyatt, I used the same geo ;)

@razeverius, thanks for the nice comments!

Here is Red! now on to the sword so I can finally assemble it and pose it for rendering.
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/Voltron_015.gif

[angel]

Today I began to put it all together.
Here is an AO render without subdividing anything so there are some artifacts that will go away once it is subdivided.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_016.jpg

[Itsgallus]

Hello Snows....

Nice to see the whole thing assembled...
Good details

keep goin'...

//cheers.

[razeverius]

whoa nice moment awaited for. its assembled:applause:

[WyattHarris]

Looking great Snows. I checked your references at the beginning and then double checked the DVDs and I can only assume the red and green lions twist at the middle joint. When Voltron forms the mouths are facing like you have them. When he forms blazing sword both mouths are twisted to face the same direction. But then the sword can be wielded in any normal wrist direction. So yeah, I guess red and green twist in the middle.

I know, a bit over-analyzed but I never paid attention to it until you started modeling it. :D

[angel]

Hey guys, thanks for the comments and feedback!

Hey Wyatt, I wasn't sure if the arms also twisted at the elbows... I thought only the heads did but I guess you are right. Now I need to come up with a cool pose :) and the sword of course.

[energise]

Lookin fierce snows!! ;)
You must be seeing the finishline in the horizon i can imagine! =P

[japetus]

Oh man that looks awesome all assembled! Can't wait to see what you do with him! :cool:

[angel]

Thx for the comments guys! I ran into a mental ray issue, the head is refusing to render once I apply the subd approximation node... everything else is fine and dandy.

[energise]

Thx for the comments guys! I ran into a mental ray issue, the head is refusing to render once I apply the subd approximation node... everything else is fine and dandy.


I´ve had alot of problems with the approximation too!! =P
i think mental ray hates me.. seriously! :D

if you describe your problem maybe ive had it too and can help you =)

[angel]

yeah MR has its share of issues... all I did was set a subd approximation node and applied it to every mesh, it works on everything bu the head... at rendering it is invisible, checked the usual stuff, render flags in the shape node, also re-saved, re imported (that sometimes fixes weird things) etc... I ended up just using smooth. I just wish smooth had a display value and a render value separately. If you happen to run into this and find the solution LMK, I'll do the same.

In the meantime here is what I came up for a pose, I'm thinking to use this pose for a hires illustration and a turntable for the challenge. What do you guys think?

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_017.jpg

[T0BER]

Looks nice but the pose is a bit tame for Voltron. I would go with something more exaggerated, in that Japanese way, that shows off the sword.

[razeverius]

agreed. or perhaps poses in transformers armada with the star saber:bounce:

[Oberyn]

This is looking so sweet, Angel. Bringing back memories. :D

As for mental ray... GRRR! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
... that's why I got sidetracked there for a bit, and started working on the tomb instead of texturing. I have an issue where mental ray wants to facet everything, even with normal maps, and smoothed vertex normals, etc etc. As nub as I am with rendering, you'd think I could get it right at least once, but I run into an issue with mental ray every time. :D

Anyway, awesome work man. :buttrock:

[angel]

hummm... ok, the pose is a bit tame. I want to make the Lions the star of the image not the sword but I do agree it is important. The problem with this model is the limited movement I have to work with, specially the legs, very hard to get a good aggressive pose but I'll try again and see what I come up with. Let me look into the TF Armada stuff, thanks guys!. :thumbsup:

Oberyn, the most common MR problem I run into all the time is the out of memory issue, I know it goes away in W64 with plenty of RAM but for now I'm stuck with XP32 and 3 Gigs of RAM so what I do to solve the problem is render separate elements which I usually do anyways, and regions for large images.

[FICTIS]

Awesome, can't wait to see it textured

[energise]

This is looking so sweet, Angel. Bringing back memories. :D

As for mental ray... GRRR! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
... that's why I got sidetracked there for a bit, and started working on the tomb instead of texturing. I have an issue where mental ray wants to facet everything, even with normal maps, and smoothed vertex normals, etc etc. As nub as I am with rendering, you'd think I could get it right at least once, but I run into an issue with mental ray every time. :D

Anyway, awesome work man. :buttrock:

Sounds like you havent checked "smooth target model" in mudbox/zbrush =)

then ofcourse we have the frustrating catmullclark problem that slices the mesh strangely, but can be fixed with this mel line :D

addAttr -ln "miExportCCMesh" -at bool mentalraySubdivApprox1

[energise]

hummm... ok, the pose is a bit tame. I want to make the Lions the star of the image not the sword but I do agree it is important. The problem with this model is the limited movement I have to work with, specially the legs, very hard to get a good aggressive pose but I'll try again and see what I come up with. Let me look into the TF Armada stuff, thanks guys!. :thumbsup:

Oberyn, the most common MR problem I run into all the time is the out of memory issue, I know it goes away in W64 with plenty of RAM but for now I'm stuck with XP32 and 3 Gigs of RAM so what I do to solve the problem is render separate elements which I usually do anyways, and regions for large images.

Yeah i hate it when the rendering dies at 90%! =P There is one way to kinda solve the problem though.. in the "batch render oprions" you can type in the memory limit MR will use for rendering. If you have 3gigs of ram try typing in 1,5gig or so.. (taking in account that windows etc drain lots of memory) then the rendering will take longer but be more stable!

[energise]

yeah MR has its share of issues... all I did was set a subd approximation node and applied it to every mesh, it works on everything bu the head... at rendering it is invisible, checked the usual stuff, render flags in the shape node, also re-saved, re imported (that sometimes fixes weird things) etc... I ended up just using smooth. I just wish smooth had a display value and a render value separately. If you happen to run into this and find the solution LMK, I'll do the same.




haha aand the final one ;)

This was a hard nut to crack hmm.. kinda stupit question to ask but.. have you tried to give the head a separate approximation? =P what happens then?

[RageOfAges]

yeah MR has its share of issues... all I did was set a subd approximation node and applied it to every mesh, it works on everything bu the head... at rendering it is invisible, checked the usual stuff, render flags in the shape node, also re-saved, re imported (that sometimes fixes weird things) etc... I ended up just using smooth. I just wish smooth had a display value and a render value separately. If you happen to run into this and find the solution LMK, I'll do the same.

I don't know if you've tried any of these.

*delete history
*re-import the head geometry
*if you saved your scene as .mb, try saving it as .ma then reloading. Or vise-versa.
*import your scene rather than opening it. Try in both .ma/.mb formats. (I used maya when I was at school, and whenever I had MR issues, my teacher recomended I do this. It resloved the issue 95% of the time).

That's all I got (I haven't used Maya since version 7, so its been a while). Good luck and I hope you get it resolved soon.

-Rage

[angel]

Hey guys, thanks for all the suggestions! unfortunately I tried them all last night and that's when I gave up and just used smooth. Since its only the head I can deal just using smooth.

Hum, you know what? I'll try again using my office workstation, its a far better machine... will see it the extra power and RAM helps, otherwise I can live with smooth on the head.

[jhasse]

look very nice

[angel]

thx jhasse!

Hey I got it fixed!
It didn't occurred to me last night to check for non-manifold geo... just ran mesh>cleanup>nonmanifold geometry. Problem fixed ;)

[WyattHarris]

hummm... ok, the pose is a bit tame. I want to make the Lions the star of the image not the sword but I do agree it is important.

Well then, go with the classic.

"Form Blazing Sword" Roooaaarrrrrrrrr!

http://yepyep.gibbs12.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/voltron_defender_of_the_u_233_1024.jpg

[WyattHarris]

Man Snows, that really looks cool now that you've got him up and moving around.

[sagleon]

Looking great Mr. Snows! The details are dead on. The pose I know will be a bit difficult because of geometry clipping, but I would focus on using the scale and camera angle in case there is no way around that issue. Looking great!

[angel]

Thanks guys for the comments :thumbsup:

Wyatt, I played with the classic, blazing sword pose and it just wasn't working for me... looked ugly. After you posted I gave it another try and got better results, however for a turn table it wouldn't work... I "cheated" to make it work and it would show in the turn table. Maybe I can use the other pose for the turntable.

Here it is
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/Voltron_019.jpg

[Azereus]

now thats voltron ;)

[angel]

Hi Damian, I'm not completely sold on that pose... will see.

here is the blazing sword :)
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/Voltron_020.gif

[RageOfAges]

Lol I didn`t have time to post here this morning while my night shift was ending, but I was gonna suggest nearly that exact pose!!

But now that I see it I too am not sold on it. I think you have a great start on it. Perhaps just playing with the focal length of your camera you can get something you like.

-Rage

[WyattHarris]

Yeah, I guess in a turntable it would look much less epic. Still, that looks freakin' awesome to me. :D

Blazing Sword is looking good, keep up the great work.

[Omnilight]

the viewport screen-cap looks awesome!

[razeverius]

awesome pose man!:bounce:

[energise]

thx jhasse!

Hey I got it fixed!
It didn't occurred to me last night to check for non-manifold geo... just ran mesh>cleanup>nonmanifold geometry. Problem fixed ;)

WOOOHOOO =P happy for ya!

[angel]

hey guys, thanks you for all the comments and support!

It seems like you guys really like the classic pose. One of the reasons I'm questioning this pose is mainly because I don't really know what else to do with it, the space background is boring to me. For the other pose I was thinking to make a small dirt crater around the feet, with rocks and mountains on the background with some fiery debris falling from the sky...

Anyway here is an AO render of the classic pose :)
http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_classic_AO.jpg

[WyattHarris]

Well then, that just means that you have to model/render the castle in the background. No problem right. :D

[Azereus]

the only thing i will say...

"defender of the universe"

If this is a rigged character then do both poses, and then compare.
There is no color, no shading information ( yet ) and you cant posible know if you are going to like it or not.

[angel]

well, I guess I can always render them both:D

here is an AO render other one that shows off the model better. Unfortunately I'll be unable to texture it ontime for the challenge, so clay renders will have to do, good thing this is a modeling challenge, right? ;)

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/voltron_looking_up_AO.jpg

[Stutts]

Awesome man! Now I want to go watch Voltron! Great work, but I wouldn't expect anything less from you. q
(http://forums.cgsociety.org/misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=1&forumid=0#)

[japetus]

Oh man sweeeet! :buttrock: You've inspired me to complete my Ace McCloud. I bet you could apply some simple polygonal coloring to the parts right? But he looks awesome the way he is now. Great work!!

[angel]

Thx guys!
I think I'm almost done... just need to add the geo for the knee that was messing up. Then its time to render the images for final submission.

Here is a quick test render using Maya's Physical sky. Didn't tweak the values much at all, just lowered the horizon line. Everything else pretty much default.

http://vertexangel.com/images/wip/voltron/Voltron_Physical_Light.jpg

[japetus]

Great job! Congrats on finishing him up!! Nice detail in the mouths, makes it seem very functional!

[Itsgallus]

Whoa...!!

Congrats man....

Great Work..... wonderful piece for portfolio....

//cheers

[FICTIS]

Looks incredible! Will you texture it? It would be a shame not to ;) This Voltron is awesome.

[RTjunior]

Nice work! Grats on finishing it. Great entry!

[Senseicapi]

really cool!

[jhasse]

looking nice

[mcteapot]

wow that looks sick!

" So, when you see me on the real, formin like Voltron
Remember I got deep like a Navy Seal! " -Wu-Tang

[TheRazorsEdge]

Great modeling work!

I think I had one of these or something similar as a toy as a kid.

Cheers!

[menthol]

Lookin' great! :D Only two wingy thingies on the back looked weird to me, I did a quick google search, they are looking a bit thin, the edges should be rounder and have little bit more mass.

Great work, pal!

[angel]

Thanks for the comments guys!
menthol, do you mean the wings? I think you are right I'll make them thicker :thumbsup:

[razeverius]

so how's Voltron going? Is he going to make it? :D

[angel]

yep, I was unable to texture it but I was able to render a turntable and will render the orthos sometime today or tomorrow. I think I can make it... I hope so. ;)

[waterlilly]

Great job, Snows!

I hear you about the texturing, I don't have time to texture mine either!

[PeterR]

Nice model :)

[samartin]

Like the camera work here, shows the scale very well without using any other props. Congrats and a great amount of patience/skill shown here :)

*edit*

How come you used Maya for rendering? Due to the rigging? Very clean and nice render all the same.

[angel]

Like the camera work here, shows the scale very well without using any other props. Congrats and a great amount of patience/skill shown here :)

*edit*

How come you used Maya for rendering? Due to the rigging? Very clean and nice render all the same.

Thx guys!

@samartin- I was telling a friend that when I make giant robots I like to place the camera down near the floor, I think it puts the viewer right in the scene and thus giving a great sense of scale. As far as rendering goes... I'm rendering at work in a dual quad core... a hell of a lot faster than my antique at home and at work we have Maya. This scene takes like 17 seconds to render with 2 FG bounces at half res (1275 x 1800).;)

[energise]

sounds like u have quite a setup at work man ;)

Must say Voltron turned out HELLAcool!

It has been a pleasure to see him take form =)

[RageOfAges]

Beautiful Model Snows. You really came through. I'm glad you were able to get the pose you wanted too. Congrats man.

-Rage

[razeverius]

Congrats on your work!:applause:

[RageOfAges]

Congratulations on the Category win Snows.

-Rage

[energise]

Yeah! congrats man! you deserved it! =)

[angel]

Thanks you guys! it was lots of fun! I hope I'm able to keep participating on these challenges :thumbsup:

I hope you guys keep participating as well, it was great to see everyone's work develop. :)

[Stutts]

congrats dude!

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