DWIV - 3D - Sathe - Mauro

[Sathe]

Latest Progress
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1373/mauroprepass001.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauroprepass001.jpg)

[M_Cederstrom]

nice work. :D

[mr_carl]

Sweeeeet

[Skulburn]

Straight to the 3d :P. nice work!

[Sathe]

Gonna be doing a video tutorial on an Inorganic Weapon this week to help out some of the people with Inorganics here

[mr_carl]

nice looking foreword to it, need some modelling inspiration at the moment.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

:dance::dance: had a feeling when you found out robots are in, you would blow your load all over the battle field. Just keep it sticky on their side, keep it fresh on ours.

I may even start calling you the real iron man.

[Sathe]

No mercy for the other forums....

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7717/mauro003.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauro003.jpg)

[Skulburn]

woahh, your quick! That looks so damn awesome!

[Ichiban]

It's looking sweet.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

you got two months man, don't burn out on me.

[grindill]

Sathe's entry looks down upon the battlefield...and stabs himself in the chest with his chin.:D :evil:

[Sathe]

you got two months man, don't burn out on me.

You must not have heard. NO mercy.... :evil:

[Skulburn]

Can we see wires? Im assuming this is the highpoly for a normal map :P

[Sathe]

Slulburn, Focus on the curves, not the wireframe when looking at a model. I find them useless.
but here's one anyway
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/8198/wireframe001.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wireframe001.jpg)

[L3XICON]

my god, some speedy work here sathe, and straight onto the 3d :D I can tell this is gonna be one sleek killing machine, keep it up man

[Skulburn]

ahh, alright. Noob question, how are you essentially bending those verts? :S

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

You must not have heard. NO mercy.... :evil:

are you going to make 3/4 complete work to choose from your final entry? :dance:

[Jensen]

Great looking stuff! Can't wait to see more :)

[M_Cederstrom]

no mercy indeed. :D

[Warlock 279]

Gadzooks! Course, I know for us mortals what looks like finished work, is merely your concepting stage. Nice work so far, and mostly certain fits the "Sathe" style. Lookin forward to your progress, good luck. :)

[Sathe]

Spent 5 minutes mocking up how i envisioned the Upper body proportions but anybody that knows me knows my concepting abilities are dog **** so the actual 3D will look Significantly Different apart from the proportions.
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5513/upperproportionsmockup.jpg (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=upperproportionsmockup.jpg)

[Skulburn]

Looks awesome, for some reason i see him working well with huge forearms/hands though.

[katana]

It's one crazy world you live in...nice start

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

I don't like how the arms look :( it's not very impressive that way ;__;
You whould try some right-side-of-the-brain sketching on that ^^

[Sathe]

I don't like how the arms look :( it's not very impressive that way ;__;
You whould try some right-side-of-the-brain sketching on that ^^

Yep a bit dodgy at the moment. Early days though, Gotta work out the Robot Joints for it all but he will have 3 Fingers and a Thumb thats for sure. Even the machines wan't to have a bit of fun crushing the Demons throats.

[Sathe]

He's got a nice smile eh?
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4052/happysmile.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=happysmile.jpg)

[Sathe]

I'm done for this morning.

Gonna be working on the shaders as I go this time.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3374/rendertest.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rendertest.jpg)

[Fenixy]

damn that was fast O_o , awsome start! no mercy :evil:

[-IdanI-]

you do know we have about 2 months for this......right? damn nice stuff you got there. keep it up! and good luck.

[discmage]

lol, shiny! :) You ARE a machine!

I have to agree though with the sketch concept not being as 'powerful' as it could be. Bulk him up some! :) Have you thought about maybe having him more like a hunchback character of form so the head is more at the front...I think with a pointy head like that it would suit him more. If I could think of an example I would...but I can't :)

Oh! Calibretto from battlechasers...sort of.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/neocrimsonblade/battleChasers_4_calibretto.jpg

[Sathe]

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9743/mauroprogress.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauroprogress.jpg)

[dhin]

Show off. You know this is utter crap. I don't know why you are posting it, I mean you can do so much better... okay sorry I'm just jealous. Awesome job, no wonder you have 40 golden eyes to your name.

[Fenixy]

someone slow him down, he will destroy hellish dimention befor other can even put shoes on!
p.s can you show wire without smooth?

[Sathe]

here you go.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9910/dominancewarentry.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dominancewarentry.jpg)

[Linc]

Some speedy work so far, looks very badass. Think some big, sharp mechanical claws would go well with your design.

Dunno if it was a concious decision or not but the little smiley face on his helmet always makes me smile :D

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Curious to see what you fill the space between the head and neck opening. Maybe the head could be just a bit wider in the front view?

[Segreto]

really nice work so far Sathe, can't wait to see what the whole model looks like :)

[Sathe]

discmage (http://forums.3dtotal.com/member.php?u=7169), sorry i missed your post. Yes he will be more Tanky, thanks for that ref.

End of Day 1 for me. Thanks for the crits so far.

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4632/mauroday1.jpg (http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauroday1.jpg)

[Jensen]

Nice progress for the day! We are going to take this thing for sure ;). Great colors too

[chris_solo]

whoo! nice stuff "machine man" !

[DaddyDoom]

I already know this one is gonna suck.
Good luck matey :D

[MonteCristo]

Looks badass man. Make sure to add lot's of exposed wiring etc... that's a must for a competition mech. ;)

BTW, did you block me on Messenger? 0_o Or are you just not on anymore? I will trash your lights.

[Perversonality]

Talk about cracking on with things! Nice start mate

[Sathe]

Looks badass man. Make sure to add lot's of exposed wiring etc... that's a must for a competition mech. ;)

BTW, did you block me on Messenger? 0_o Or are you just not on anymore? I will trash your lights.

I changed my email, to stop all the spam but haven't added anyone back yet. been caned with stuff lately.

You would want me to expose some wirage wouldn't you. sick *****

[MonteCristo]

I changed my email, to stop all the spam but haven't added anyone back yet. been caned with stuff lately.

You would want me to expose some wirage wouldn't you. sick *****

Hired yourself a dominatrix eh? Great! Yes, do please add me back in when you get a chance. And when you make lots of wires, I want you to name one of them Monte. Do it for meeeeeeee! :) Or I'll trash your lights.

[Sathe]

Don't MAKE ME TRASH YOUR LIGHTS MONTE!!!!

[Sathe]

blocking out the body,

Oh Also, Monte i know you said make the low poly first but i can only do that if i know what the **** im actually making im just goin as i go from the image in my head.
Basically, the Machines on the brink of defeat, resources exhausted, came up with the ingenious idea of building themselves in the demons image. Terrifying and merciless these new designs will be the savior of their kind.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7610/bodyblockedout.jpg (http://img24.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bodyblockedout.jpg)

[JHarford]

Ohh, becuase it takes soooo long to add someone

We're done proffesionally man... You do it one more **** time and I ain't walking on this forum if you're still hired

let's take a minute

[Ichiban]

Good job Sathe, it's coming along. You are running like crazy. But i agree with you, no mercy ;)

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

Basically, the Machines on the brink of defeat, resources exhausted, came up with the ingenious idea of building themselves in the demons image. Terrifying and merciless these new designs will be the savior of their kind.

Cheaters! :D

[Sathe]

Koeri...you and me.....were done professionally.

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

Don't tell me you've seen something cyborgish in my daemon design!





















http://www.m4d.it/forum/images/smilies/look.gif

[BiG ToE-3DT]

for a mean killing machine, it sure does have short arms. how can he wipe his butt.

[DaddyDoom]

I asked him the same question and he replied > "its a freaking robot you *******"
God... I hate Sathe more then I hate aespargus.

[Sathe]

Mauro-
Continued Arm progress. I'm done for my little 2-am-3am stretch. Cya in the morning.

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8629/mauro009.jpg (http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauro009.jpg)

[dhin]

I was wondering if you ever slept Sathe. Now I see you are a machine, so is this a self portrait then?

[frostsnake]

woow.. very coool!
did u sculpt your ideas first then just modeled over it??

[Sathe]

For the arms i did, but not the head or chest. thats just modeling as i go....for any joints though i gotta be very careful. ran into some big problems with hadron because of not taking care of the joints...so best to sculpt these areas.

[Cracadoo]

Awesome work so far. Longer arms would look better IMHO.
Most productive warrior so far. Keep up.

[redonix76]

Wow...I barely got some doodles on a piece of paper and you've already gotten this far. great work man, I was hoping to give you some competition, but damn...I have to kick it in gears!!

[Intervain]

my god you're a speedy gonzales... great modeling! I just hope that you'll loose the 80s disco colours ;P:crazy:

[Sathe]

my god you're a speedy gonzales... great modeling! I just hope that you'll loose the 80s disco colours ;P:crazy:

:dance:

[NeoGeo]

Do i smell another win for threedy

[Sathe]

Nope, thats just DD lifting his arms up.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I was on here about an hour ago, you said it was like 3 in the morn, your still up. Go to sleep.

[Sathe]

I was on here about an hour ago, you said it was like 3 in the morn, your still up. Go to sleep.

nah i got some sleep from 7-9pm yesterday...won't be asleep til easy that time again today. anyways, im on work now. will get back on this guy in the afternoon.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

power naps.

I gotta write this stuff down, so I don't forget.

[Sathe]

power naps.

I gotta write this stuff down, so I don't forget.

Trust me man...stay as far away from my sleeping patterns as you freaking can. they are diseased. one time someone touched them and they got a bladder infection. True story.

[dhin]

I told you he's a machine. I think someone actually created a real AI and it goes by Sathe... IT all makes sense, with the speed and pace he's going any human would be reduced to a gibbering idiot, look at DD he's already there and he hasn't even joined the war yet.

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

Don't flatter it too much or it's going to slack off :drool:

[Sathe]

I told you he's a machine. I think someone actually created a real AI and it goes by Sathe... IT all makes sense, with the speed and pace he's going any human would be reduced to a gibbering idiot, look at DD he's already there and he hasn't even joined the war yet.

HAHAHAHA YEs!!!!!

thats the kinda comments i wanna see against DD :)

[Sathe]

Blocking out the Legs/Torso Concept.

Plenty of work to go Proportionally.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3925/mauro010.jpg (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauro010.jpg)

[ASTUS]

hey! you said you were crap at concept art! how the hell did you do that. :verts:

[Sathe]

Photoshop filters and low poly geo.
Posterize i beleive...

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3175/screenshot0010a.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0010a.jpg)

[Jensen]

wow you're gonna finish this thing before I even start modeling! Super fast 0_o Great work!

[ASTUS]

Agreed! Very very fast modeling buy Sathe right here. Haven't even started to model yet! Still going over the brief and thinking of something worthy enough of bring Sathe to his knees! Magic is definitely the answer :halo:

[mel_danes]

Sathe - looking good so far. I like the feel you have with this piece, and your other rigid body designs have been stellar so, not many worries.

I humbly submit my paintover for your knee design. It should continue the spike curve look not add a dumpy round joint element.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3825/mauropaintover.jpg http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3696/mauro16bit.jpg

That second one is the Super Famicon version, 16bit O'le Skool Unite! See i can use filters too:crazy:

[Sathe]

Agreed! Very very fast modeling buy Sathe right here. Haven't even started to model yet! Still going over the brief and thinking of something worthy enough of bring Sathe to his knees! Magic is definitely the answer :halo:

Oh little Astus when will you learn.

[Sathe]

Sathe - looking good so far. I like the feel you have with this piece, and your other rigid body designs have been stellar so, not many worries.

I humbly submit my paintover for your knee design. It should continue the spike curve look not add a dumpy round joint element.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3825/mauropaintover.jpg http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3696/mauro16bit.jpg

That second one is the Super Famicon version, 16bit O'le Skool Unite! See i can use filters too:crazy:


:D love the knee man, definitely gonna make it like that now :)

[DaddyDoom]

I was trying to find some badass taunting to make you wish to trash my lights, but I cant.
Its looking great bro.

[DaddyDoom]

I was trying to find some badass taunting to make you wish to trash my lights, but I cant.
Its looking great bro.

I quote myself, therefore I rule.
Anyway... Sathe... the smell of my armpits is the smell of victory. Not even the smell of Napalm in the morning can surpass the magnificent array of emotions and esophagus contractions one feels when in the presence of my award winning pheromones. I should bottle it and call it "VICTORY".

[Sathe]

I Should bottle you and call it FAIL

[DaddyDoom]

No.
FAIL would be the name of a cologne made out of the greenish liquid ooze that pours out of little finger sized twingo.

[damageINC]

LOLZ.....nice work btw. Slow down Sathe, you're making the rest of us look bad. The form looks very protoss-ish. I might consider adding asymmetry to the character. It'd make it more interesting I think.

[Sathe]

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5746/shadertest002.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shadertest002.jpg)

[Loafie]

:eek:

[DaddyDoom]

You should add it a fork, cause this baby is gonna feed of demons big time.
The badassery index of it is so damn high...

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

Fking great, are you trying to trash my iris? :D

[Sathe]

Im gonna eat ya babies

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3929/badassmouth.jpg (http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=badassmouth.jpg)

[hulahuga]

Looks great Sathe!

You ruined the machine cyborg commando design with those legs :(.
Btw, when a acquaintance of me saw that blue shader image. He said: cool car!
HAHAHAHA!! (He isn't familiar with 3d at all)
Serious.

Well well, the head looks great :), but the chest seems like it will become something very close to Hadron :/.

[hulahuga]

Btw, do you subdivide when modelling?

[Sathe]

Looks great Sathe!

You ruined the machine cyborg commando design with those legs :(.
Btw, when a acquaintance of me saw that blue shader image. He said: cool car!
HAHAHAHA!! (He isn't familiar with 3d at all)
Serious.

Well well, the head looks great :), but the chest seems like it will become something very close to Hadron :/.

Tell your friend hes stupid :P No excuses for that comparison :hurt:

Just check the tutorials i released to see how i model. its in my sig.

[Puckducker]

OK Sathe, just come out an admit it.

This is actually a WIP model from the last dominance war you just didn't get a chance to submit, right?

Because we all know that no one would be able to come up such seriously awesome work mere days after the contest start. Right?.....right? :hmm:

[hulahuga]

Tell your friend hes stupid :P No excuses for that comparison :hurt:

Just check the tutorials i released to see how i model. its in my sig.

Aight. I've already told him . Though he is only 11 ;P.

I'll check the vids.

[DaddyDoom]

I once called Sathe (Grant) Doctor Granthattan because he has the ability to multiply himself, and that's why he can do so much in so little time. Besides, he's blue too.

[Sathe]

@ puckducker. just sleep 2 hours a day and you can get lots done too...oh also, you have to be born from the pitts of hell.:evil:

@hulahuhuhuhahahaha i can't read that name without chuckling :P
Maybe i was too harsh, 11 is pretty young, but what car has eyes?

[hulahuga]

"@hulahuhuhuhahahaha i can't read that name without chuckling :P
Maybe i was too harsh, 11 is pretty young, but what car has eyes?"

It sounds good in Swedish *sob*. Just call me Hula.

View port? He also looked a bit puzzled when looking at it and changed his mind to starship/hovership.

But I agree with you ;P

[mr_carl]

Maybe i was too harsh, 11 is pretty young, but what car has eyes?

Naaah you can never be to harsh to an 11 year old kid, otherwise they never learn, muahhahahaaha (evil laugh)

Anyway, yore modelling tutorials are really great and I recommend everyone to have a look at them it really helps allot.
Great work on you're "little" robot :)

[DaddyDoom]

If you value your life, dont call it "robot" or "roboto" or even "el roboto fantastico". He wants people to call it Mecha.
He is dead serious about it.

[Sathe]

AHhahahahHahahhahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAAH AH oh **** im crying

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

>AHhahahahHahahhahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAAH AH oh **** im spamming


Fix'd ._.

:D

[hulahuga]

AHhahahahHahahhahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAAH AH oh **** im crying

laughing at what mister Roboto? :dance::dance:

[dhin]

my my, when DD shows up he corrupts a thread until it is no longer recognizable... Get back to work Sathe! You're falling behind I haven't seen an update from you in like 4 hours! It should be eating babies by now.

[Sathe]

When you say Corrupt you mean make awesome?
Heres your freakin update, i'm off to trash hulagahgaghahaha's lights
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6430/mauro011v.jpg (http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauro011v.jpg)

[Warbringerd]

Hey Sathe, looking really cool man, you definitley have your onw style that is immediatly recognizable. My only thought is at first glance I think of the protoss..Not sure if thats what you are going for or not. Regardless its still Kick A$$.!!

[Tank[NL]]

sweet. those legs look wicked.

erm, but whats up with those cameltoes? they dont really feel right with the rest of him, if you follow me.

*offtopic mode*
ooh, damn i just realized who he reminds me off. its a mic between the new megatron and general greavious. :)
*\offtopic mode*

[Sathe]

Thanks Warbringer, Tank, I'd say hes a mix of a ton of different iconic characters, im pretty much a huge fan of anything scifi so just from memory i will be adding these elements in.

Have done some adjustments to the Cloved feet. Definately keeping them, they just look like **** in block mode, but the high poly will be very different :)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7015/sideon.jpg (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sideon.jpg)

[discmage]

Looking sweet Sathe, although the legs (to me) don't look very efficient. Running would be a pain. If I can think of exactly why, or how I would make it more impressive I would tell you, but I just can't put my finger on it. Basically you have 3 equal length limbs though between pelvic and floor...thats a lot of machine and weight to be moving quickly. ANd to me it looks like speed is his game.

Although I was thinking it WOULD look cool is if he ran he ran on all fours...like a panther. Or something. Somewhat of a transforming bot.

I also think he need wings/blades coming out of his back to give him some overall presence.

That said however you have a MIGHTY strong start.I wouldn't want this guy to be coming after ME I'll tell you that much...as much as I would go 'Hey COOL!' first...and THEN run like hell.

[Lukavi]

Wow man you're really moving along, at the rate you're going you'll be done long before the end! The only thing I probably would have done is made his shoulders wider to make him look a little more imposing. Regardless though, I think it looks great, keep it up.

[hulahuga]

Sathe, I've loaded my EMP. Come bring it. HOAA! My lights will never be trashed by you. Maybe from the emp, but not from you. Mohaha.

[Sathe]

Lergs must be bent like this as this is how i see the demons looking however when i have optimised and done the high poly they will look much more efficient, thanks for bringing it up.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7717/mauro003.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauro003.jpg)

[stroggtank]

This has a lot of style man!, the curves, the shapes, silouethe, etc, but Oh c´mon! DW has just begun and this thread is 8 pages long? now I know why DD hates you...
I´ll keep my healthy eye attached to this one... keep it up :D

[Sathe]

DD hates me because I said his wife was hot...but he sent the photo so what can you do?
But yeh it is ridiculous its this long already ( "that's what she said" )
Wireframe

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9351/wireframeupdate002.jpg (http://img11.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wireframeupdate002.jpg)

[DaddyDoom]

hahaha!

[function]

Can't wait to see this thing posed.

Maybe it's just the armor and/or legs that are throwing me off, but it looks like you could lengthen the arms a tiny bit.

[Jensen]

Looking Great! My only crit is that there is noticeably more legs than upper body (speaking in relative terms). Keep it up!

[M_Cederstrom]

dude this is looking sick, keep it up. :D

[Perversonality]

The arms definitely look a little stumpy in the full body shot you posted above. Maybe try dragging the hands down to the same level as the mid joint of the legs to see if that balances things out a bit more?

[madm4tt]

What's the story of the name? Have you already told that? Mauro is an Italian name :-)

Great stuff here, keep to post!!

Bye

[Ghost-D]

Sathe, you think like you´re the only one here angry on the enemy? Jeez, give a chance to the rest of us to kick some ass too...
Seriously, great work so far! Keep it up! ;)

[L3XICON]

great updates man! you sure are fast lol. gotta agree with the other comments that the arms could use a little more length. but other than that, great work :D

[Sathe]

Arms lengthened :)
More refinement

Back to work for the rest of day. only small update this time
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7991/mauro015.jpg (http://img11.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauro015.jpg)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9169/bodyshott.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bodyshott.jpg)

[Puckducker]

Nice sathe. I think the proportions could maybe be skewed just a teensy bit, just to add some exaggeration. I also think the plating on the arms could open up a bit more, show some of the mechanical insides (like what you have on the neck).

But, man, still fantastic work regardless....at this rate, you could do two models, and then just pick the best of them to submit.

[Sathe]

the problem with exagerated proportions is functionality and as im trying to learn design i gotta stick within the rotational limits provided by a ball joint. If i just give him giant shoulders the arms will collide but at the moment the curves line up so he can swing his arm around....only just.
so maybe at the end i can play with this but right now its barely functional as is.

[Puckducker]

That is a good point, I ran into the same issue with my guy last year (all that armor)

[Sathe]

Slowly shaping up the chest piece to match the 3Dtotal Logo. Still needs the 3 Side Pieces

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9866/logocomp002.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=logocomp002.jpg)

[Ash-09]

that is insanely awesome looking

[hulahuga]

Looks even better. You should take those hnads into a sculpting app and work on them a bit.
I like the necktube :)

[Sathe]

Hands are placeholders for the inorganic. this piece will be 100% 3ds max hard surface the old school way.
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9992/maurofronton.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maurofronton.jpg)

[Cracadoo]

^^This one actually finished on my desktop wallpaper. It's looking awesome. Love the shader, btw.

[Pickman]

Hell YEAH! OLD SCHOOL!!

Where's the railgun?

[DaddyDoom]

Anyone got lub?
Those perky demons are gonna need it.
Nice updates dude.

[TekNeek]

Wow, nice work!

You're insanely fast! Doesn't seem you're going to run out of time :P

[iamnick]

Someone put a leash on this guy! Absolutely insane modeling speed Sathe. Top quality too, you'll be finished before most people even finish their concepts haha!

[AzoiC]

Gd thing theres no prize for finishing first.. or is there??!! ;P

great work as always :lame:

[DaddyDoom]

Sometimes just pants dude... just pants.

[miycko]

:D:D sathe,Absolutely amazing. That's some crazy stuff you're on!

[chris_solo]

you advance as a machine, you have a machine gun in the head?! GREAT WORK man!

[Sathe]

Just cruising between work at the moment. When rage mode kicks in and the hardstlye music starts banging that's when the other forums will know it.....
Thats also when DD will trash this threads lights. :dance:

[DaddyDoom]

Always expect the unexpected!

[buzz001]

Mauro, love the look of the model, sharp edges, agressive look just what a machine should look like for war. The last uploads are continuing this pattern which is great, but don't let your love for the railgun de-rail you ( no-pun intented). Picture how this powerful weapon can be one with the model if passion takes over then the weapon becomes the focus and it's carrier just becomes a stand for the weapon. I would like to see some sketches, myself I'm still debating how to build the rest of the body for my model, hopefully I could get some helpfull guidance. Above all great job so far.

[Freekybevis]

/subscribe. /quit dw.

great work man, its look killer. i feel that his arms are too short though, in comparison to the legs. could i suggest adding another joint in the arms , for sake of continuety. (even though its a robot human proportions still come into play to help with believablity, but you know what u doing so keep it up :D)
never the less its looking sick and i can wait to see where u take the textures.
keep it up bro!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

its pretty.

[Sathe]

the hard surface renders will be nice and shiny like my other works but the low poly normal map will be banged up :)

[hulahuga]

Try to make sure that those small curves come well into the normal map :)

[gfxengine]

really awesome dude it has got that rare feel where u get in a liquid feel as though a living exoskeleton ;D cool keep on pushing got o get a thread running soon :hmm:

[NeXt 0ne]

Nice model so far. It'l be interesting too se how you'll get all these details on low poly model. Can't wait .

[ASTUS]

Morning Sathe. just a quick reminder your going to die.

Game on

[redonix76]

Wow, better and better everyday!! Great work!!!

[Kageko]

....dude, u kinda scare me... this is top row stuff, as usual (i lurk alot...) truly inspiring work! :) *off to watch your tutorial* :P

[spartan118]

Dead right he scares us, you must on some kind of steroids or somthing!!. well either that or you sold your soul to the art devil. Legendary stuff here.

[SR_6274]

Geez, thanks for setting the bar so high, how are us noobs supposed to compete with this? Seriously, this is looking absolutely amazing.

[Agent-X]

Sickness Sathe. Thats hot! Reminds me of something from Transformers. Thats cool **** dude. Keep up the ****ing good work. I am glad we have Sathe this year. 3D total is going to kick all the other forums asses with this entry! Ill do my best to try to get something too. If you got any critiques for me let me know.

[xelubest]

duuudeeee sick work XD awesome flow... i soo hate you =)

what do you eat to come up with this stuff? =)

[Milan]

awesome!

[Sathe]

Ive started Organizing what I'm gonna do for the video tutorial Tomorrow night.
Will hand off to the 3Dtotal lads this weekend so should be ready shortly :)

This won't be a fundamental video, just me modeling the weapon/start to finish, I will try to commentate but once I start modeling seriously it will be hard for me to focus on both things.

I will not have a concept or reference, but instead do it how i do it always, start with proxy piece and model from that.

Cya.

[hulahuga]

Updates Sathe?

[mr_carl]

Ive started Organizing what I'm gonna do for the video tutorial Tomorrow night.
Will hand off to the 3Dtotal lads this weekend so should be ready shortly :)

This won't be a fundamental video, just me modeling the weapon/start to finish, I will try to commentate but once I start modeling seriously it will be hard for me to focus on both things.

I will not have a concept or reference, but instead do it how i do it always, start with proxy piece and model from that.

Cya.

Looking foreword to it.

[Agent-X]

Hehe, I think Sathe needs to sleep. Give the poor man a break. Hes human after all. Lol. Even though we all know he is a machine. Sathes the man. Keep up the good work bro.

[Sathe]

actually today i had less sleep than i have had the entire month. 40 minutes woo!
I got freelance to deal with at the same time so i can only work on this guy when rendering,.
here is some new proportion changes to the legs.upper body and back.

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3325/proportionchange.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=proportionchange.jpg)

[vongn]

great model man! neon lights are crazy, and your awards take up too much room, my monitor isn't wide enough.

[DaddyDoom]

I just took a bath and I feel dirty again just by looking at the update.
I still think that the arms should be longer though. How is it supposed to catch mushrooms or feed bunnies with such short arms? How is it supposed to caress the head of cute demon children while they run around him in circles screaming "you killed my father, murderer!!!" just a split second before their little horned heads are pulverized by Mauro's railgun.
Think about it man. Give it a serious thought ok?

All the best.
DD

[Sathe]

I can't stress it enough guys study your ****en Silhouettes...Seriously, all those dudes on the Alechmy Aps thats great and all but find one you like, build it low poly as and study it....and refine the outlines.

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5195/silhouettestudy.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=silhouettestudy.jpg)

[MonteCristo]

I think this is s**t. Give up.

[MonteCristo]

Prove me wrong... Fight your critics. You can do it Sathe. Go!

[DaddyDoom]

He's gonna trash your lights Monty...

[hulahuga]

Ey Sathe. The legs are to large. The other proportions are fine though.

[the_bromox]

Hey there! Let me first say that your doing an awesome job! I really love this design. Not sure what it is but that bleeding of blue on your model looks amazing! I see it used on alot of designs but yours uses that design to a perfection.
That being said... I am no design artist by any means but something about his lower body really, REALLY takes away from your model. The top is so sophisticated and orginal looking and then at the bottom we got the basic AT-ST walker, or minotaur legs. I feel since you haven't down that fair perhaps take a few mins, sketch out another few styles. If they don't work for you then go ahead but I think theres something more you can do with the legs.
If ya can't find something I would highly suggest just fixing the area where the florescent tube connects the upper leg to the lower as this is a major weak spot on the character and takes him from looking mennacing to very vulnerable.
You don't have to take the advice, again i'm no design artist, but I feel it will defiantly take your design to a whole new level. Great job again man and I tip my hat to ya.

[buzz001]

Good job Sathe. It has come together nicely.

[VersionThirst]

Looking awesome so far. The knee joint in the silhouette seems a little weak though, like it could snap pretty easy.

Are you going to stick with the monochromatic color approach of just greys and blues?

[Sathe]

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9127/maurodebrief.jpg (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maurodebrief.jpg)

[amentet]

Great and fast work Sathe.
I have two suggestions: I believe the legs re overcomplex and the hands look too organic...
cya!

[Tank[NL]]

hehe, sweet backstory. nice and brutal. i can totally picture this guy sneaking up on some demons, jump in theur midst and just tearing and slashing away. slipping back into shadow when the dead are all that remain... :)

[Linc]

Funky story, I'm not the best at grammar but I think there are a few changes that could be made.

...the brink of defeat --> the brink of extinction would probably be better instead of defeat being repeated.

...power where slowly --> were

... to communication lost --> loss instead of lost I think, or change it to severed communications.

Looking forward to the tut, sounds good beans.

[DaddyDoom]

You forgot to mention the story of the fall of Eduardo, The Hair Stylist Demon, who enslaved little robots and used them as massage tools for other demons, who was slayed by Helizondo King Of Robots, in the Great Battle of Wounded Screw. This particular story was the catalyst for the whole war between robots and demons...
You idiot...

[Sathe]

Thanks for the grammar touch ups, at 4am things can get sloppy :D

Thanks to buzzy for the viewport shaders, man they kickass !
http://g.imagehost.org/t/0144/Mauro_Lighting.jpg (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maurolighting.jpg)

[hulahuga]

you forgot to mention the story of the fall of eduardo, the hair stylist demon, who enslaved little robots and used them as massage tools for other demons, who was slayed by helizondo king of robots, in the great battle of wounded screw. This particular story was the catalyst for the whole war between robots and demons...
You idiot...

hahahahahaha!!!!!

[Freekybevis]

amazing work.

[Jensen]

That silhouette is great looking!

[Sathe]

Progress

the_bromox (http://forums.3dtotal.com/member.php?u=14837),

Remember this is all placeholders.once the high poly starts flowing you will change your mind. the upper body was just your standard "two arms, 1 head" character during the block also :)
Similar thing happened with Hadron, got a few coments about it, but it changes up very quickly.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8308/mauro0021.jpg (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauro0021.jpg)

[Buzzy]

Really great so far! Top notch hi-res modelling...zBrush is for sissies! (I am one of those sissies:( )
My only critique is how 'busy' the design is. There's alot going on in there and the eye doesn't really know where to look. Of course, that might very well clear up once you get further along and get colors more worked out, etc.

[redonix76]

Coming along really well! Great job! Can't wait to see him finished!

[VinsanityV20]

Whoa! You're movin' FAST man. Looks amazing so far too -- when you say, "No Mercy for the other forums", you mean it! Can't wait to see this guys finalized, and I'm glad we're on the same team!

[Sathe]

His Giant Gunnnn is being created TONIGHT :dance:

Lets hope camtasia doesn't suck out on me!

[hulahuga]

these new hands are much better :). Easier to rig too :)

[DaddyDoom]

Great updates Shato!

[Sathe]

well ive changed the legs further and am starting to like these proportions better. Keep the feedback coming, I am listening.
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9718/refinement003.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=refinement003.jpg)

Metal shader test applied to whole model, but am thinking of just using this in small places. Obviously textures will change dramatically, just a raw shader test

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1924/maurologo.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maurologo.jpg)

[Sathe]

these new hands are much better :). Easier to rig too :)

Dude all this low poly stuff ISN'T part of the high poly you know that yeh?
(legs, hands, back etc)
This is just blocking out proportions...i have to properly model everything.

[MonteCristo]

I much prefer looking at this with a single tone material on it, Sathe. I can see now, for example, that the head of your robot will need more mapping space to get those details to come through ok.

135283

I will trash your f***ing lights if you put glows on there before you've actually shown me the model in grey again.

[DaddyDoom]

I kinda like the grey model...

[hulahuga]

Dude all this low poly stuff ISN'T part of the high poly you know that yeh?
(legs, hands, back etc)
This is just blocking out proportions...i have to properly model everything.

I know that dude ;P. But I thought that you'd head in a more robotic direction with the hands now.

[Sathe]

I know that dude ;P. But I thought that you'd head in a more robotic direction with the hands now.

Goodo little chaplington

[chris_solo]

it's really better, good choice for change of direction for the legs, this project is really large, the proof ;):
http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7935

[Ichiban]

Great job sathe. Its looking great and really fast too. congratz

[Perversonality]

The new proportions are an improvement. Perhaps a little more "meat" on the front of the thighs though as they look a little too small right now

[discmage]

yeah, the new legs look much better in my opinion. Nice work!

[Freekybevis]

dude i cant tell u how much i prefer the new legs. great choice.

[Sathe]

Will ad more meat to the tighs cheers.
And here is the very WIP design progress on the railgun. Looking a little to thin and doesn't match up proportional to his silhouette yet but its getting there...feel free to suggest mass changes to the gun.

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1012/railgunwip.jpg (http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=railgunwip.jpg)

[Sathe]

A or B please?

if A i will ad a tri barrel on the flat front.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1516/sawnoff.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sawnoff.jpg)

[DaddyDoom]

I like the B option better. More organic and menacing :D
You could incorporate a big blade there, for melee combat and general decapitation purposes. It can be used for demon circumcisions too.
Great work dude.

[hulahuga]

I'd say this guy should have two large knives !

[buzz001]

the legs look better. Now you can believe the size and weight in-comparison to a human standing next to it.

[Koeri Kun(ST)]

b is great, handle could be longer to allow two-handed helding and using of the gun as a solid metal club.. y'know.. bone crushing, head smashing.. :D

[Tank[NL]]

B, but i'd make it longer and put in some kind of cooling system. railguns irl tend to get really really hot. as in, the barrel is useless after about 1 or 2 shots.

2 cents for ya, now go make us some 3d candy for our eyes.

[Sathe]

B it is and il ad some cooling detail. basically there is a vent underneath just can't see it in the screenies.
Im happy for anyone to do a drawover how they see the blade fitting into place? it can be anywhere. i can change the model up to fit the drawover.

[SR_6274]

I like B as well, seems to fit the overall feel of the robot better.

[Sathe]

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1649/mauroholding.jpg (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mauroholding.jpg)
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4996/guntop.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guntop.jpg)

[Tank[NL]]

i think i just pooped me pants.... :hmm:

damn, he looks scary. really, you could chuck him a horror adaptation of transformers :D

the gun looks cool. the lower hole is for cooling?

[Sathe]

Yeh lower is for cooling. and the sides. every time you see one of those circle discs with the holes indented around them they are pumps to push air in/out of places.

Here is some viewport lighting. Im starting to dig his stance also.
Like...hey whats this? some polycount hooligans? time to **** ***#$ ***@ 3*****

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2338/viewportgrabs.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?image=viewportgrabs.jpg)

[Sathe]

Mockup pose. Middle is looking pretty frigthening....gotta really study the pose and nail it.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2204/powerswing.jpg (http://img17.imageshack.us/my.php?image=powerswing.jpg)

[Warbringerd]

Not sure if I'm all about the weapon in the air, just seems a bit ungainly for some reason, but I also kow its in the rough right now.

[Holo]

I Love his weapon, it realy suits him.
plus, i think the legs look much better than they did at first.
It looked a bit messy at first and i wasnt completely sure where you were going with this, but its slowly (or quickly ?) coming together now.
great job.

[stroggtank]

Holy c***! i know it´s been told already but those legs look even better... next thing i guess is make this thread sticky :P (tough it isn´t hard to find really... just search for the 5*)

great work dude..

[Lukavi]

Thats comin together really nicely man, wasn't sure where you were going with it at first but now its all good.

[Sathe]

Warbringerd (http://forums.3dtotal.com/member.php?u=40266), not that huge a fan either, but need to know how extreme the joints can move.
Its still very messy as far as im concerned but it will all be polished and prepared for normal mapping goodness.
stroggtank (http://forums.3dtotal.com/member.php?u=34031), hey dude, its pretty ridiculous the amount of views the thread has, more in 5 days than my cgtalk folio has gotten in the last 2 months lol.

Little weight test.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7799/heavysword.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?image=heavysword.jpg)

[Buzzy]

Mockup pose looks kinda weak. My first thoughts are this : One, his legs are bent...no one stands with bent legs....it looks weird and off-balance. Two (and this one is probably too late to fix at this point), he has no shoulder articulation...meaning he has no clavicle and cannot shrug his shoulders. That makes the raised arm look akward. You could fake it by tilting the whole torso upward toward that arm. The ability to raise (or shrug) the shoulder is really important to good posing and is far too often overlooked....especially in articulated/robot characters... not to mention its usually really hard engineer the articulation

[Sathe]

You have made a great point about the clavicle...I'll see what i can do man, never to late to push some verts.

[Linc]

haha, even demonic machines have to do the hoovering sometime : D

[Ghost-D]

You´re freaking machine... Wait - are you doing an autoportrait?

[Sathe]

about an hour slamming through the feet. Still messy but i like where im goin with it.

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2193/feetprogress001.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=feetprogress001.jpg)
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1245/feetside.jpg (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=feetside.jpg)

[xelubest]

love the feet... and the weapon is awesome too :D

keep going...


bwhahahhaa polycount is going downnnnnn >:)

[chris_solo]

hey machine man, feet are terrible!!

[miycko]

The weapon is awsome, i like the feet too.

[mr_carl]

The feet's look great, I don't know about the front "toes" pointing inwards though, but I cant say what would look better so It´s alright :)

Anyway he is starting to look awesomely fearsome and looks like he can kick allot off butt :)

[Tank[NL]]

damned sathe, making the rest of look like sh%t. *grmbl grmbl*

ok ok, the feet rock. :)

but, uh, he's a HECK of a lot bigger than i would have thought. i had him figured to be human-sized, and more or a stalker/hunter. now that he's so big, i kinda feel like he would be the kind of robot to play with his prey. like a cat.

so, for his pose, you could stand there a bit more relaxed. you know, as if he were saying: "do whatever you want, im still gonna pull your arms off, later."

now, its more like a big, scary assualt unit. not that it's bad thing. just not what i had expected.

[Sathe]

he is a war machine after all, but this is sort of the feel i want.

Pose at the moment is so i can set up mockup rigs, all joints slightly bent etc.
He is just meant meant to be a giant Revenge unit. not really to "cripple" the enemy more so just torture them and cause as much pain as possible. He is a fear unit.

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/7195/closeupjlx.jpg (http://img17.imageshack.us/my.php?image=closeupjlx.jpg)
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8461/proggy0023.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=proggy0023.jpg)

[DaddyDoom]

What a cute little charmer.
Looks like an adorable pinky monkey ready to grab an elephant and just torn it apart with his cute little monkey hands.
Don't forget to put a little blue ribbon on his cute little head ok?
Charming... Just charming.

[Freespace-3DT]

This is nothing less then what I expected of you. Otherwise I would've trashed your lights. Jeez you would've been an amateur.

[The1Walker]

this is coming along great

[Sathe]

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/948/murdertimef.jpg (http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=murdertimef.jpg)

[Cracadoo]

Mean machine. No crits, Sathe, only admiration.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

you do know the other forums re watching you right. Infact, all the forums with "spy/competition" threads, have to at the top.

[DaddyDoom]

Unstoppable!

[jjvdb15]

great stuff, i really like the organic feel to this robot. I don't know why for sure but it reminds me a little of the section 8 robot. It kick ass btw.

[Sathe]

I am starting to feel the machines have a sense of ....Irony to them.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4282/havingfunm.jpg (http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=havingfunm.jpg)

[buzz001]

Love this you're beast of prey has its eye on the price.

[Sathe]

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9404/feetproggy003.jpg (http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=havingfunm.jpg)

[JuST]

I agree with buzz001. This mashine really rocks.

[L3XICON]

coming along real nice sathe, I wasnt too sure about the feet design when seen alone, but in combination with the lower leg armour, its looking very nice indeed :) looking forward to seeing the completed high poly :D and to see how you plan to texture this big guy to really make those details jump.

[mr_carl]

yea man the legs looks awesome.
You work a bit slow though cant you speed it up dude :)

[damageINC]

Hey Sathe, digging the feet a lot. I'd widen the stance of the legs....right now his relaxed pose looks pigeon toed and bow legged. I'd set the feet wider apart. The only thing I don't feel right about stylistically, is the head. It looks too flat in the face for the rest of the concept. I dunno why it's bothering me but if you find the time and have a couple other concepts in mind, I'd explore them. Keep it up....wish I could model as fast as you.

[Warbringerd]

Hey I don't want this to sound noob or anything, what are you using to get the glow? Is it set up in your shaders? I know you can do it like that in maya but I havn't played around with shaders in a long time and a quick refresh may be in order.

[spartan118]

HAHAHAHA YEs!!!!!

thats the kinda comments i wanna see against DD :)

Sorry DaddyDoom, but i just could'nt resist.:haha::haha::haha:

[Sathe]

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[DELTATHUND3R]

Excellent work Sathe matey..

[Peter_Kasim]

LULZ!!!!!

Spartan118 has just said it all! Man, Sathe, have some mercy upon us weak fleshy mortals before we all collapse with exhaustion trying to keep up!

I'd normally say "keep going" at this point, but I think I'll go with "SLOW THE HECK DOWN!!!" instead

Phew!


Absolutely beautiful flowing forms, BTW - unrivalled in this contest so far

[DaddyDoom]

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA A HAHA AHA AH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Very good Spartan :D
Nice way to start the day ahah!

[Agent-X]

Nice!!!! Let the other forrums watch and drool. Keep up the good work bro. Its ****ing amazing.

[Sathe]

Knee pad progress. Its hard to model now as I keep re reading that comic over and over. so hilarious

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/585/kneepadprogress.jpg (http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kneepadprogress.jpg)