HARDCORE MODELING!: 80's Cartoon:Voltron

#41

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.” :smiley:

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.

#42

Thanks alot man!!

The signature links works perfectly now!

I owe u one… or two :wink:

#43

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)

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

#44

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… :smiley:

Good times. and superb modeling!

#45

@ 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!:smiley: 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 :slight_smile:

@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.

#46

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

#47

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:

#48

I wanted to see what the proportions were looking like…

#49

Looking awesome! :smiley:

#50

awesome! im beginning to remember my childhood days lol

#51

Sweeeet! Looking fantastic sir. No crits!

#52

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.

#53

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.

#54

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?

#55

@ 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.

#56

Nice! Keep up the hard work snowman! :smiley:

#57

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!

#58

This is really coming together.

#59

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.

#60

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 !!!