Shirow Project Book#3 Side-Mission

#5041

Hi everyone,

I found some time to update the sniper model. I gave her new hair and I redid the hands. The biggest issue with this model was the poly count. I had to reduce it by getting rid of those arm bands and the hands were pretty hi poly. I also did away with the grey eye goggle thingy. I still have it if we ever need it. I decided to give her some yellow tinted sniper glasses instead. I also re created her top torso to remove some excess polys in that area. I tried to use less hair polys with a better map but I still ended up using two layers for the hair oh well. She still needs a proper weight map, I just hate doing them arrrrgggg. Theres gotta be a better way! The bike I made for a short I have in mind within the Shirow universe. Its a kinda of hover bike, I used two bike images for reference to create it. :thumbsup:

#5042

hehe…you’ve been busy. Modelling looks great all round:thumbsup:
… but I still like your original hair. :smiley:
Nice Bike!

PS. I still want to use this and many of the other models we have. The problem right now is finishing what we have and filling out the scenes with characters. So we have a lot of modelling/texturing/rigging/animating to do. I was hoping to also use this sniper’s head with some retexturing and add her as another character… hope thats ok too. :slight_smile:

#5043

Sounds good SD!:wise: I dont know about that old hair though:D

#5044

Whaaatcha talkin about, it looked fine. :slight_smile:

#5045

Ok SD I give up. I guess the hair wasnt so bad after all. Hmmm what was I thinking???:smiley: Wheres Colkai when you need him? I added the finger needle to the robo assasin with a morph that opens the finger with the needle inside. unfortunately its being affected by the stinkin bones arrgggg. I guess a weightmap might fix it. Did I tell you guys how much I hate creating weightmaps!!!:smiley:

This is the robo assasin with her cool blue hover bike

House still for sale may not sell or move after all. Stay tuned.

#5046

Yeah, I’m with you on the weight maps…but after the fuchikoma, I probably shouldn’t complain about bipeds. :slight_smile:

#5047

Work the last week has been very busy so no progress with any modeling but i’m hoping to get back to modeling a couple of new heads this week.

#5048

He was out flying hawks :smiley: :wink:

#5049

Hey SD, just wondering about the feedback on the last fuchi pass. If you’re happy with it overall, I can get on with polishing it off:) .

#5050

Darklight- sounds good, thanks for updating us. :thumbsup:

Colkai- Welcome back. :slight_smile:

Donshole- will have something for you today. :wip:

#5051

Great work! :thumbsup:

Uploaded the shoes to the ftp for texturing. Made two versions. One with the inside of the sole deleted and one with everything intact.

#5052

Hi team. It’s been a looooong time since I did any modelling, so here’s an update on kainisu’s hands :wip:.

#5053

Nice! :thumbsup:

Hey softdistortion, is the mecha suits in the suitbay up for grabs? Or is someone making them?

#5054

Zem- For now I was thinking of trying to use the Guges model we already have…just haven’t had time to check if that will work. Hang in for a bit…there will be some items needed now that the characters are coming together.

Also thanks for work you did on the footwear…will also get to the shoes textures this week :thumbsup:

Donshole- wow, that looks so much nicer now! :buttrock:

UPDATE-
I wanted to post a couple rough renders of some of the parts going into the dock set.
This small sample represents almost every member of shirowproject. :eek:
…the rest of the activity that will be going on in this set includes towcar driveby, workers loading copbots into the dropship, giant floor elevators delivering bots and cargo to the mainfloor from the basement levels.
It should be pretty nice with the full scene staged. :slight_smile:

#5055

Cool, I like it. Keep it coming!:thumbsup:

#5056

Looking good SD. As promised, the fuchi animation fbx files are in the ftp, in the folder red fuchi_w finished! :beer:. The “plot” file is ready for LW import.

#5057

Thanks Donshole :thumbsup:
For the people that are wondering what fuchi_w is…Donsole and I have been working on this set and anoimation for a while now. It’s the cellshade tunnel set (see below)with the redfuchikoma in it for a short intro animation. End 2006 is the completion date we were shooting for, but it might be ahead of schedule now. Hopefully all goes well on the next leg of this scene. :wip:


#5058

Zems LabShoes are done…quick dirty UV/texture, but it’ll do :slight_smile:

#5059

I guess we are on a high churning out some good stuff the last couple of weeks. Here’s to collabs :beer:!

#5060

Another wip, Kainisu’s legs revisited, replaced boot with cyborg foot.

New:

Old (notice the boots):

Which do you guys think is better?