movie mashup - iron man and transformers -Tarik2d

[Tarik2d]

What can I say my favourite films, let's see how this ones goes

[xxxcubanxxx]

looking forward to seeing what you come up with buddy, welcome.

[Tarik2d]

looking forward to seeing what you come up with buddy, welcome.

Ill try not to disapoint. I'm going for a new design of a transformer with an iron man influence.

[thefmilyofblood]

Hmm, sounds interesting. I was originally going to go with Transformers, but I figured I'd try something easier. Good luck! :D

[Tarik2d]

Hmm, sounds interesting. I was originally going to go with Transformers, but I figured I'd try something easier. Good luck! :D

Lol, I'm looking forward to the challenge. Ive made a design that's going to challenge me with the modeling. I think ill just be doing the top half of his body though bc I want the detail in there I might not have enough time to design and model his legs

[gauravcg]

this is going to be crazy.....good luck..! :)

[Beindulin]

laughs* was just about to say if you find any good pics of the transformers feets please share lol then saw you was thinking of upper body only ;)

This one may be hard to pull of as I already see Iron Man as transforming out of the suit. So making that look different could be quite a challenge :D Two awesome movies, can't wait to see where you take them.

[hulahuga]

Share the design then man ;).

[Tarik2d]

laughs* was just about to say if you find any good pics of the transformers feets please share lol then saw you was thinking of upper body only ;)

This one may be hard to pull of as I already see Iron Man as transforming out of the suit. So making that look different could be quite a challenge :D Two awesome movies, can't wait to see where you take them.

lol, If i get round to the legs i'll share the reference :) I didnt realise we had until the 15th so I might get the legs done after all.

Very good films, Ive got a design that I'm happy with at the moment, it works in 2D at the moment so I'll try my hardest to make it work :)

[Cordero]

I'm happy that you joined Tarik!:D Interesting idea, i'm curious what you have in mind for the final image composition / elements. Can you share the concept or the idea?

Good luck ;)

[chunkymunky]

Iron Man Transformers, that could really be very cool, i'm looking forward to seeing your first steps in this :)

[Tarik2d]

Cheers Cordeo, Im planning on a upper body shot, clean lighting with a few areas of rust etc maybe. Its not going to be in a scene its more about the design for me on this one, iron man armour in the style of a transformer.

[DaddyDoom]

Well... IronMan could actually transform into an iron :D

[hulahuga]

Well... IronMan could actually transform into an iron :D

Hohoho ;)

[paulius-st]

sounds interesting. will keep an eye on this one. :)
good luck :)

[Tarik2d]

Lol an iron, if he did turn into an iron he would burn a hole in your shirt

[chris_solo]

good choice, yep, sounds interesting!

[Tarik2d]

Here is a quick concept, Im on with the modeling which fills in a few gaps so far.

[hulahuga]

Hmm, seems interesting. Will it just be an Iron man of extreme proportions? (looking like a transformers...) Or what are your thoughts??

[chichiri]

Nice sketch, make us a really detailed model :dance:

[Tarik2d]

Hmm, seems interesting. Will it just be an Iron man of extreme proportions? (looking like a transformers...) Or what are your thoughts??

I am modeling it so it would fit into a transformers film but with iron man characteristics. There isnt a person inside it is just the robot like prime for example.

Thanks chichiri, I will, super detailed just for you.

[hulahuga]

Something like that was a bit how I thought with what I said ;).

Let's see how it turns out :D

[Tarik2d]

lol, I like the way I put it lol :P

[xxxcubanxxx]

sketch looks promising, really looking forward to this baby to start taking shape.

[hulahuga]

lol, I like the way I put it lol :P

Forum chat in our hearts forever :haha:

[Tarik2d]

sketch looks promising, really looking forward to this baby to start taking shape.

Thanks Cuban, need some inspiration for the arms lol. But im working from the waist up

[Tarik2d]

This is what I have so far with the waist. Hopefully will get the rest of the waist blocked in tomorrow.

[paulius-st]

nice consept. and a nice start. ceep up and good luck. this should come out a one tuff iron man :)

[Tarik2d]

nice consept. and a nice start. ceep up and good luck. this should come out a one tuff iron man :)

Thank you :) exactly what im after :) big and bad

[chunkymunky]

Cool modelling so far :)

[gauravcg]

sweet start....
keep it coming!

[Tarik2d]

oh dear. All my 3ds max files have errors and wont load up :s

[xxxcubanxxx]

no bueno...did you try installing and uninstalling 3ds?

[Tarik2d]

No not yet, ive got loads up plugins and stuff that I dont fancy reinstalling so going to try a few things first to try and get it working

[gauravcg]

well good luck with that...
no incremental saves???

[Tarik2d]

Yeah about 30 of them but its the same with all if them

[gauravcg]

Tragic.....did you try to import those in an empty scene...that worked for me a long ago!

[Tarik2d]

thanks, yeah I tried that one it crashes as soon as I merge them in. Ill have a think about it

[gauravcg]

i just found something about it.... look for a .bak file in the default max folder or where you saved your file....rename .bak to .max it might work .....hope this helps!
or you might try unloading some plugins......
i can feel your pain! :|

[Tarik2d]

Thanks for the help, I cant see a .bak file I'll have a play around with it tonight and see if I can get the parts in one by one that might work. Thanks again for the help :)

[Tarik2d]

Fantastico :D im back in the game

[Cordero]

Happy to hear that :D

I would recommend you to use autobak files. Customize / Preferences and there Files. It saves your file from time to time. It saved me from total annihilation a couple of times :D

[Tarik2d]

Yeah cheers. I had it back up but did the sane with them. Hopefully ill get some updates by the end of the week

[Tarik2d]

Here is an update, this is waist area, planning on fleshing this out a bit then moving onto the part just above this which I already have blocked in. Crits welcome as always

Cheers

[chunkymunky]

This is one sweet looking piece of modelling so far, really like the direction you're going with this! :)

[gauravcg]

gr8 ..u got it back....nice stuff there!! :)

[Tarik2d]

Cheers guys, not to sure what to model for his back hmmm, its hard to find any reference for a transformers back, here is iron man which is a good starting point

[gauravcg]

did you check these http://www.joshnizzi.com/TF2.htm ?
josh nizzi is the main artist in transformers i guess.... he is such an inspiration for me...
good luck!

[Tarik2d]

Thanks gauravcg I havent tried that no. Thats brill that will do the job :) thank you very much

[Cordero]

I'm not an expert in hard surface modeling, but it looks good, and that is what really counts at the end of the day :D
Keep them coming ! :drool:

[Tarik2d]

Cool, a marvel book I ordered has come, inspiration for iron man :)

[hulahuga]

Back looks great :). Keep on rocking!

[Tarik2d]

Oh this is a render, this is a toy reference I found of iron man :)

[gauravcg]

LOL...i also thought that you modeled it at first look....! :D

[Tarik2d]

No sorry guys lol :) I promise mine will look cool though :)

[hulahuga]

Oh this is a render, this is a toy reference I found of iron man :)

Yeah but the back or torso thingy you modeled before... ;)

[Tarik2d]

Update

[LemonW]

looks great...keep it up

[hulahuga]

Is that closeup thingy a joint of some kind?? Don't really get it, seeing some similar shapes on the sides there but still...

Looks great though, real neat!

[Tarik2d]

no, its just the same part rotated round, ive done some more on him, ive filled in most of the internetals

[hulahuga]

Cool. What is it actually??

[Tarik2d]

Its his waist twisted round to show the side and back. It will prob make more sense when Ive filled in the gaps :)

[hulahuga]

Kk :)

[gauravcg]

nice and clean stuff.....would love to see wires :)

[Tarik2d]

Update guys, let me know what you think so far

[Cordero]

cool looking so far, but i don't really see any resemblance with ironman. You might need to add more thing in common with ironman on top of the painting. maybe the core from his chest, or the cool looking leg piece.

[Tarik2d]

Cheers, yeah the chest peice would be a good idea :)

I have the white glow, the circle and the white line, the peices round his waist, resemble the suitcase armour, plus there is the head to come ;)

[hulahuga]

Would be cool to see some cool lines around that white circle :).
Neat modeling, not sure about the hardness on the horizontal lines in the middle there...

[chunkymunky]

Wow you're a strong modeller, superb progress :)

[Cordero]

is it possible for a shot, where you include all your existing elements, with a little explanation next to them?
I'm a bit confused which of your images shows what, and where are they on the final model.

other then that, all of the pieces looks awesome (as i said earlier :D )

[washka]

Where is the real mashup? Those two are robots, no?
:evil: :evil: :evil:

Good luck man, nice stuff so far!
I hope you'll get some serious final, your last comp' was quite good.
Keep it up!

[Tarik2d]

Sorry guys I feel I'm not do to well from ur comments. Ill try to improve for the next update, ive got a lot to do on it next week

[chichiri]

I like the model, you really worked on it, but it is hard to see the mashup between ironman and transformers. But nevermind, good luck for the next.

[Tarik2d]

Well what I was going for was iron man features with the openness of a transformer design and still make it original

[LemonW]

maybe its color could be to express the iron man features

[Tarik2d]

maybe its color could be to express the iron man features

:)

[Tarik2d]

Right, I thought something along these lines at the start of the weekend but having some time away from it Ive changed it but I thought I would show you guys anyway.

Cheers

[chunkymunky]

Damn that's cool! Your rocking with this! :)

[Tarik2d]

Thanks :) I am trying to make the head look like a transformer style but represent iron man. Im findind it quite challenging so crits would be fantastic, Cheers for checking it out

Tarik

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Yowzers! Looking fantastic! Such good modelling

[Edwiersma]

Yowzers! Looking fantastic! Such good modelling

/agree

[Tarik2d]

Cheers guys :) please if you dont like any bits say :) If this works out well I will be doing an animation of this guy thats why im trying to model the internetals that are going to be realisitic to animate

[thefmilyofblood]

Looking friggin' sweet at the moment, but I think that you should maybe put the arc reactor lens on the chest, to make it look more like Iron Man.

[Cordero]

freakin' awesome :D i knew you had something cool in your mind, you just didn't show us what it was... :D
do you plan on making the textures, or you will just apply some sort of ironman style material to the parts? like a car paint or something..

either way, an animation would be nice :D

[Tarik2d]

freakin' awesome :D i knew you had something cool in your mind, you just didn't show us what it was... :D
do you plan on making the textures, or you will just apply some sort of ironman style material to the parts? like a car paint or something..

either way, an animation would be nice :D

Thank you very much :) Im looking forward to the texturing, I dont really like clean textures even if its just something that brakes it up. So yeah textures :)

[Tarik2d]

Here is screen grab rather than the AO. The image on the left is what I have of the head so far

[chichiri]

Really nice model, I love the details and finally I see how you're going to mashup the two movies. Good luck for the next.

[Tarik2d]

Thanks :) bc im not going to model the legs I can spend more time detailing up the top half and getting it looking nice.

[gauravcg]

this is awesome and now it gives a sense of iron man and transformer.......
im loving it!

[Tarik2d]

this is awesome and now it gives a sense of iron man and transformer.......
im loving it!

Wow, thank u very much :) so glad it's liked

[Tarik2d]

booooo, my max files have gone all funny again like last time, Im well confused whats causing it,

its actually getting worse :s i just tried to remodel a bit then all of a sudden all the cuts and verts changed place and It wont undo it

[yaRa]

Iron Shiva!
He should have blue cover )))

[Tarik2d]

Who lol, Im doing the head right now, wwhhhooooppp, its look good, well I like it :)

[Tarik2d]

Here is an update so far, done some more on the head area. I still need to work it up a lot but thougth I would show you all.

Crits welcome, especially round the head area,

Cheers

[xxxcubanxxx]

very clean modeling like always, keep on going with the madness. :)

[Tarik2d]

very clean modeling like always, keep on going with the madness. :)

Cheers :) the madness has only just began :)

[hulahuga]

Head design looks interesting :).

[chunkymunky]

This is seriously looking cool. The details and more details that you'll put in here are excellent :)

[thefmilyofblood]

Nice! I can't wait to see it with arms 'n' legs!

[Tarik2d]

hulahuga - thanks its on hold at the moment till I get some good ideas going. chunkymunky - thanks, I do like my detail :)
themilyofblod - hmmm, you'll see arms not so sure about the legs lol

[Tarik2d]

guys, whats the best way to rig a robot? Is there a way for examples if the arm moves and there is a soft pipe in the way, when I move the rigged arm the pipe reacts and moves when the arms touches it?

Cheers

[gauravcg]

why dont you try simple rig with a spline IK and skin it with the pipe...
try connecting it with the related bones(or parts)...this might work!!! :D

[Tarik2d]

Cool cheers :) i'll look into it

[Tarik2d]

Ive been missing out not learning this rigging,great stuff. I feel super rough today so going to just read up some tutorials in sun

[Tarik2d]

Here is another update, Crits welcome

[CLP]

I know ur not planning on doing the legs, what kinda pose or shot are u planning on showing it from? Some kind of portrait?

I think u shoulda made him transformable....but i know how tough that woulda been lol.

anyways keep it up, i wanna see the rest of his head! :dance: lol

[Tarik2d]

lol, I want to see the head too, I might work on it this week, currently doing the back and working out how to rig him. I want to animate him, I am thinking about transforming a bit actually, I dont have a problem modeling it all, but the rigging isnt part of my play ground yet.

[wargrafix]

Oh yeah! Thats the stuff! Mad good!
________
BODY SCIENCE (http://bodyscience.ws/)

[Tarik2d]

cheers wargrafix, update on the head coming soon!

[Maxter1]

This is coming along nicely. Great modeling. Keep it up!

[Tarik2d]

thanks :)

Here is another update, I have done a quick draw over for the design of the top of his head, let me know what you think, cheers

Tarik

[hulahuga]

Looks good, just make sure all the shapes are clear so the viewer doesn't get confused with all the parts.

[Tarik2d]

cheers, will do :) at the mo ive just blocked general shapes in so i'll make it nice and neat :)

[chunkymunky]

You're modelling skills are really high, I'm loving the progress :)

[Tarik2d]

Thanks :) here is a quick screen grab, Ive redesign his head soooo many times lol, going to work this one up :) just finishing up his back starting his arms in the next few days.

Crits welcome

[hulahuga]

Go for simple, you might want to make something similar to Prime's head...

[Tarik2d]

Ive been trying to capture a sence of iron man but yeah primes head is good for reference, I think I have the head design now :) I have added a very cool feature on the side of his head. Just need to model it now lol. Sort of like prime had in the cartoon, you know the mini vehicle he kept in the truck.

[hulahuga]

Mhm :)

[Tarik2d]

here is what i meant :) crits welcome, time for the football!! :)

[thefmilyofblood]

C'mon man, give some of the rest of us a chance of winning! Yours is looking great so far.

[Tarik2d]

:) sorry, thanks for ur comment :) I'm learning how to rig so its taking me a bit longer with model bc I'm trying to model it in a way it could be rigged and animated

[Tarik2d]

not sure what colour to go for, even the normal hot rod colours or the suitcase model colours.....hhhmmm

[Cordero]

I vote for the hot rod colors! :dance:

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Gotta be hotrod hasn't it :) This is superior modelling, seriously kicking the ass out of my thread that's for sure lol

Kind Regards

CG.

[gauravcg]

LOL CG ;P
@tarik: did you check out transformer's newest game (war for cybertron)?...you could find some animations in that also!!!......nice stuff so far!

[Tarik2d]

Cordeo - Hot rod it is

CG - thanks mate :) your is looking nice, the compistion and the car is great :)

gauravcg - Just watched it again, i forgot about it :) i wish my robot could be in there lol, ironman transformer would kick butt lol

[CLP]

Im liking the chestpiece and the glowy thingy.:haha: it looks cool, I'm waitin to see the full head! lol. :evil:

[Tarik2d]

cheers CLP, I'll get that head done for you, hope u like it when its done :) bit nervous but exctied about doing the textures actually :)

[gauravcg]

:)
are you going to present it in a plain background or is it gonna be somewhere in cybertron?

[Tarik2d]

oohhh, thats a nice idea :D i dont yet not thought about it much, had tunnel vision for the design. If I have time that would be very cool

[Cordero]

cmon, show us something!
is it allowed to use a picture from google for background?
or you have to draw one for yourself?:D

[Tarik2d]

lol, im recently been modeling the head but also spending quite a bit of time trying to rig which im not getting very far with :(

ermm.. not sure really, I would prob make one to be honest then it will all be mine, but time is a factor

oh, if anyone does know about riggin stuff Ive posted a question on the animation help :)

[Tarik2d]

I have come up with this idea, his head opens up and reveals yet another weapon. What do you guys think, it wont be exactly like this bc I need to rework it so it fits into his head nicely. But crits and opinions please :)

Best regards

T

[Tarik2d]

Talking about backgrounds, I just did a quick colour test for the background, something like this could work (this isnt a compistion just a colour test for the background)

Cheers

[Cordero]

I like the weapons on the head! Cool idea. It will be even cooler, if you will animate it:D

The background colors is pretty cool too, works just right for a Transformers feeling.
Will you have "enough" ironman style at the end?

[Tarik2d]

Thanks :) I will animate it yes :) hopefully the colour and the design of iron man will shine through

[Tarik2d]

Right, what does everything to the arm on the image I posted with the four arms? I'm bit worried about running out of time

edit: this one here

[gauravcg]

i think you should only focus on 2 arms right now..as it will give a more feel of a transformer......its just a suggestion....
and you should look at some references of war-machine too...it might help..
good luck :)

[Tarik2d]

Ok, thats cool :) thanks. Thanks I'll check out war machine in a bit :)

[Tarik2d]

Hi,
Here is an update, the head is nearly done for now, I mgiht comeback and add a few more details. The body shot, ive decided to try and get two types of arms modeled. There are the small ones here then there will be larger arms in his back that fold out and that the smaller ones fit into and control. I want him to look intelligent as well. The float thing on his shoulder is J.A.R.V.I.S rather than just a voice he is actaully part of the machine.

[chunkymunky]

Can't wait to see some nice colours on this soon, the modelling is flawless to me :)

[Tarik2d]

Thanks chunkymunky, glad you like the modeling so far. Im just finishing off the iron man chest piece. Im trying to hold back on the texturing till I get all the modeling done

[RHedendahl]

I have never like the design of 4 arms, might look good if they are completely different. But never when they are the same.. So I say skip that, but's thats me.

You also need to step it up. I would like to see this finished and in this rate I doubt that you will.

[Tarik2d]

Im modeling the small arm tonight. Yeah I decided against doing them all the same. I am doing a small set of arms at the front that fit into the larger ones at the back, well thats the plan. I'm not doing the legs, its just going to but a top shot. Hopefully I'll get it done in time :)

[CLP]

i like the head but i think theres not enough angles or rather not enough sharp angles and edges to be ironman/transformery lol. At the moment what it reminds me of, aside from the obvious transformers influence, is stuff like gundam or macross. might be just lack of colours and specular though which means edges arent accentuated. i should probably wait for a render like that first lol.

anyways, a couple of weeks to go. are u doin a vid? cos u sed you were animating?

[Tarik2d]

there are some sharp edges in there but I'll let you be the judge of that like you say when I get some renders off

[Tarik2d]

Here is a update, he has skinny arms that are used to do precise work then the big arm behind for combat

Cheers, hope u like it

[rap]

your work is one of my favorite in all the 3d entries here! great progress!

[Tarik2d]

yeah sorry CLP didnt answer you about the animtion, I'm trying to get things rigged up but I;ve never done it before so its proving very hard. Its slowing me down a bit as well.

Thanks rap, glad you like it

[Tarik2d]

Here is a colour scheme I am going to go with. The rigging thing isnt working out to great so that might not happen for this deadline

[Razeem]

whoa whoa whoa!
look whoes rocking the stage here!
my friend tariq!
sorry for poping in late man!
your doing absolutely awesome model.
m wondering how the heck you are churning out those awesome shapes!
good luck man!
definitely following this one!

[Tarik2d]

Thanks Razeem, no prob, glad you like it :) Just texturing at the moment not sure when the next update will be

[chichiri]

Th'at's an amazing model, he's really nice so far, good luck for the limbs.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Oh now that's better now we've got a little bit of colour going on the model, so just how big is he gonna be? He looks massive, will you add a human for scale comparisons at all? Is he bigger than Megatron for instance....and most importantly which side is he? Autobot or Decepticon? either will need the corresponding logo on the chest of upper shoulder/arm section. Looks like the arms would looks great if they were massive maybe made from trucks or something is you wanted to take this guy super huge :)

Keep going you're doing brilliant here.

Kind Regards

CG.

[Tarik2d]

@ chichiri - cheers :)

@CG he is autobots, got to be. Well, What I was planning for the long run was to have a small iron man inside, sort of like a headmaster but if i get time for that...well lol

Luving the idea about the logo :)

size wise he is bit bigger than iron hide but not much. Yeah sure i/ll put a person in for scale later on

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Cool :) I really like the idea of another Iron Man inside kinda like the one's in the Matrix & Alien :)

CG.

[Tarik2d]

yeah but the iron man inside is still a robot, not a human :) ive been spending loads of time trying this rigging but its well hard lol
ive got a few things to rotate when i move one object etc but its trying to make it all work together lol

[jlmayen]

Woww friend, high quality here! I like the clean way in which you model, and the big amount of detailing, that I think is the most important in this mecha modelling. I´m sorry I cannot help you, because your modelling skills are much higher than mine. Keep up the good work and you´ll be in the winning list for sure! Good luck! :dance:

[wil_himura]

Indeed, detailing makes the difference in such model. In this one has a great detail level. Pretty stunning, nice hard surface modelling ;)

Looking forward to see the textures and image context.

[CLP]

likin the colour scheme dude, also like the proportions you've given him too. much more roboty :dance:

[Tarik2d]

@ jlmayen - thank you :) i really enjoy trying to put the detail in and its really good you like it :)

@ wil_himura - Thanks, just doing the texturing now, getting things unwrapped and applying a quick bit of detailing

@ CLP - thanks, yeah the big arm helps a lot, thats what im after :) im glad u like it now lol :)

[rofiqalfata]

I think adding hot rod decals like those on Optimus Prime will work really cool on your model...

[Tarik2d]

damn this is turning out to be crap day lol, another two rejections from companies, one of them looked so good as well :/

[Tarik2d]

do you guys reckon he will look cool with damaged textures?

[Tarik2d]

Dont get me wrong Im not comparing the quality from the iron man film but what do you think for the level of scratches and stuff? I'll carry on once i get a few opinions from you lot. its only a small sample but its all i have textured so far.

Cheers

[wil_himura]

I think it works pretty well with the transformers part. Transformers are more rusty while Iron Man gets a brand new armor everytime he goes out to have a walk :P It also depends on the plan you got for him/it(both robots right? hehe)

Great work with the scratches tho, I think it would work anyways.

Regds

[Tarik2d]

cheers wil_himura, yeah I know what you mean, thats why I dont want to much rust and stuff but just to look like a worn and torn iron man, if that makes sense

[Tarik2d]

does anyone know how to take a screen grab from bodypaint 3d and export it into photoshop to paint onto then bring it back?

[LemonW]

i use ZBrush to do this....and you should use a screen project texture to do this..but i don't know how to do this in bodypaint...

[Tarik2d]

Cheers mate :)

[chris_solo]

nice progress, keep it up Tarik!

[Tarik2d]

Thanks Chris, Im currently modeling the big arm, its proving to be a bit of a challenge, hopefully I will get it done today as time is running thin

[Tarik2d]

damn, I dont think i;ll get this to how I want it in time!

[LemonW]

keep it up, there are still 10days left.fight fight!!

[Tarik2d]

keep it up, there are still 10days left.fight fight!!

Thanks :) i'll keep going, having some problems with my computer and the programs. Some of them are going totally black, its bc i updated my graphic drivers. But i need all of them to work lol.

[LemonW]

memory limited???a large amout of polygon?

[Tarik2d]

nope, I think its bc i updated my graphic driveres for another program to work that im using for this project. ive written off to the company to find out a bit more about it. ive just cleared some few gigs from my computer so i dont think it is that

[Tarik2d]

Right, here is what ive textured of the head so far, crits welcome. Its not finished, im just getting in the basic layout. also this is just a quick light set up to get an idea.


try to cover up the yellow bit with your hand when looking at this lol. I havent done much to it so it looks quick poo
Cheers

[chichiri]

Nice progresses, keep it up! It should be a nice entry.

[Tarik2d]

Here is a different view on it.

[thefmilyofblood]

Lookin' cool. The design is awesome.

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Looking very very cool indeed there, I think some of the scratches on the cylinder section on the right hand side nearest the camera look a tiny tiny tiny bit stretched but other than that i'm like the subtlety of the scratches and roughed up look mixed in with the slight reflectiveness of the obviously once new suit would have been :)

Kind Regards

CG.

[Destrega]

I really like the design my friend;) Textures coming along nicely, you only need to adjust the shader, needs to look more like metal or better said a polished car paint;)

[Tarik2d]

Thanks very u three Glad u like my design :)
ive nearly cracked the material settings so tomorrow I an tan it

[Cordero]

Cool work Tarik! Texturing is impressive, but i would like to see it on the whole model!:D
i hope you can finish!

[Tarik2d]

Cool work Tarik! Texturing is impressive, but i would like to see it on the whole model!:D
i hope you can finish!

Hey, so do I. Its going to ne really tough. Got so much to do still. But I really want to finish this in time

[Tarik2d]

damn this is hard working this fast, my arms are actually hurting lol

[Tarik2d]

Crits welcome, a nearly finished head.

[LemonW]

added reflection, it looks better now. keep it up

[eicronie]

cool!
piece looks realistic

[Tarik2d]

Cheers guys, the jpeg has cone out really blurred for some reason. I'm not sure about gold material. Think ill come back to it and tweak it, what do u think?

[akacg]

verysweet man love the detail

[rap]

its coming along very well!!!
with regards to the gold part, it seems a bit more battle damaged than the red paint from my point of view. maybe you could lessen it a bit? just an idea...

[Tarik2d]

@ akacg - thank you :)

@ rap - cheers :) yeah thats a good idea, when I come back round to it I'll try taking off some of the wear.

[Destrega]

yeah, with the reflections it looks a lot better:) For my taste, only the eyes are shining too much:) I guess it would look better on a darker background, than a white one;)

[Tarik2d]

@ Destrega - Cheers mate, yeah I am planning on modeling in more detail for the eye, I just dont like the way it is at the moment (just a ball). Yeah background is a good call :)

[Tarik2d]

Right I think I am going to go for a warehouse type scene, he is going to be fighting in there, what do you think? I am stepping away from cybertron. Iron man and transformerse are both based on earth. hand blasters at the ready

[LemonW]

it looks good now. But in my opinion, you should model all the elements, then tweak lighting, the shading and the texture, there are a few days left, keep it up.

[mryogesh123]

Wow, i would say a tough concept but you are definitely pulling it off. Very much like the helmet, can see aspects of transformers peeking through. :)

[Tarik2d]

@LemonW cheers, yeah I was planning on modeling everything first but I was strugling with designing the other parts so I went onto the texturing and light etc.

@mryogesh123 thank you :) glad you like the head, It took quite a few designs to get this one. Its also good you can see transformers coming through as well. Hopefully this will show even more when I get the rest of the body textured up etc

[Tarik2d]

Hey, what do you guys think to a scene like this? its just roughly put in but I wanted to know your opinions

Cheers

[Destrega]

Yeah that looks sweet man:) Looking really realistic and the viewer gets a nice impression of its scale:) I really really like that. You just need a higher resolution for the photo:D Or do you wanna model it?

[LemonW]

it is a good idea. you need not to think about the low parts

[chichiri]

Such a scene would be really cool, keep going.

[Tarik2d]

@ Destrega - Hey, glad you like it :) yeah high res lol

@ LemonW - yeah, The crop will be a bit lower than this one to show more of the waist off and maybe the very tops of his legs but i'll see

@ chichiri - Thanks :)

[Tarik2d]

Hey, progress is slow. But Im focused on what Im doing now, Ive been trying loads of ideas but its not realisitic for this time frame. Here are just a some new shots.

Cheers

[Jaxko]

Looking great so far, I love the realism of the textures.

[Cordero]

A+ !! You might wanna improve the BG a little bit. Maybe Filter/Sharpen/Unsharp mask will help in photoshop.

[Tarik2d]

Thanks Jaxko :)

Cordero thanks, whats BG mean?

[Jaxko]

Thanks Jaxko :)

Cordero thanks, whats BG mean?

No problem, also by BG I think he means BackGround ;)

[Ducu]

Good job tarik can't wait to see the final result :D

[Alekzsander]

looking nice my friend ;)

[paulius-st]

great progres. i realy like the textures. good work .
good luck :)

[Tarik2d]

Thanks guys glad you like where it is going. Here is a bit of an update on the arms, they are nearly done, I need to tweak and improve a few bits.

Crits welcome

dont ask me what he is doing with his arms right now, it was just a quick test :)

[Cordero]

I really like it man! I'll be awesome with textures

[Mithras]

This is simply amazing!
The secondary arms however are somehow creepy...

[Tarik2d]

@ Cordero & Mithras - thanks :) creepy robot hands good? lol

[xxxcubanxxx]

This sucks.......:D...I don't know about the hands though, could you give us different views of them?

[Tarik2d]

This sucks.......:D...I don't know about the hands though, could you give us different views of them?

Thanks...I think :p I'll show the final pose in the next couple of days, just working up the final textures, ive got him possed up and just sorting out some post stuff

[hulahuga]

You could try him landing...


Looks good btw... Head is turning out nicely...

[Tarik2d]

You could try him landing...


Looks good btw... Head is turning out nicely...

Thanks, glad you like the head design :) when you say try him landing, do you mean with his pose?

The pose that im going with just now is him searching through a decipticons hide out, you know like they did at the start of the second movie.

Iron man/transformer is has a few gadgets to help him find them. Hopefully everyone will like where ive taken it for the final image.

Cheers everyone for your interest on this one.

Kind regards

Tarik

[hulahuga]

Yeah... Gives you some room to show off some particles and debris as well :D

Picture him crashing through the warehouse roof :)!

But otherwise you could go for the search thingy, but I do think the landing will give you a stronger image...

[Tarik2d]

Yeah... Gives you some room to show off some particles and debris as well :D

Picture him crashing through the warehouse roof :)!

But otherwise you could go for the search thingy, but I do think the landing will give you a stronger image...

It might be an interesting shot like you say, but not in the time I have left lol :) I could save that for the future animation. Maybe I can convince you once you see the final image :)

[RenoAnimations]

your work looks great man!!!! i´m sure that your final image will rock!!! very nice and cool :)

[hulahuga]

Please do :)

[Tarik2d]

here is an update, still not finished but crits are welcome.

[Zlatovous]

There is way too much going on. Can't even say where his head is...

Give people something to catch on. Otherwise, very nice

[Tarik2d]

There is way too much going on. Can't even say where his head is...

Give people something to catch on. Otherwise, very nice

can you really not see the head? :s I'll see if I can make it more obvious

[LemonW]

i agree with Zlatovous. i also can not see the head...when i first eye on it...the structures are not very clear..i need to find them out..

[Zlatovous]

Well, I can but after long staring at it.

The problem with transformers is that while in action they are very hard to recognize which part is what. This is partially solved while seeing them in motion - you can easily understand that for say this part is hand because he punched the other autobot. But when stopped in motion, to still image and without defined strong pose, it's hard to see and understand what they do. And that's the problem with your image too. I am still not sure what he is doing - looking at something, avoiding shots, trying to tear that building down?

Try to make it more obvious. Unfortunately I can't tell you what to do exactly to make it better since I am not sure where you are heading at. But I am sure you will come up with something

[LemonW]

i come back to find the transformers` picture
i am not sure if it could give you something or the direction to improve it

[Tarik2d]

Thanks :) cheers for taking the time to find some pictures. I'll take a good look at them and try to improve my image from here

[Tarik2d]

Right I'm rendering a big image after changing a few things. Ill post up later, hopefully if u guys like it a bit more I can then finish off the rest tomorrow

[Steban]

its really nice, i like the textures and the render, well done :)

[Cordero]

Hey! I like the last image you posted! A really great model, and sick materials! I also dig the lightning, but somehow i think its not final just yet!
The smoke effect could be your signo man.. i kinda missed it from the previous pictures :D

Its a shame we don't have the voting system no more... :)

[CLP]

i agree with a lot thats been said already really so i wasnt guna comment til ur render is up but what the hey lol. :)

i think basically u need to distinguish the limbs from the torso in some way. it looks really actiony right now which is super cool and would look even better as a movieclip but thats not practical right now, i think?

so like those pics LemonW posted i think just some kind of ready pose would be cool

likin the textures btw ;p

[Tarik2d]

What does everyone think to this? ive moved his arm back and made a few tweaks, still not finished but crits again would be great

Cheers

[CLP]

i think his right arm is better, can see it easily now but i think his head still gets a bit lost. Perhaps you could try somethin that last transformer's reference pic has done [i dunno the transformers name lol] and texture the neck area a much darker colour or have a brighter and mroe saturated head?

dunno if thatll look good though.

[Tarik2d]

OK, cheers CLP I try to look into changing the head. I was thinking maybe having a couple of neck armour plates in a different colour to brake up the body from the head. also the eye will come into play soon.

more crits the better, thanks

[thefmilyofblood]

FINISH HIM!!!!

You're making my entry look poor in comparison...

[paulius-st]

first, i would like to say that it comes along nicely. i realy like the design and where it goes.
great job.
about these neck armor plates - to think rationaly it would be essential and necessary but to think from the artistic point of view i would not tuch the neck. the whole desing is heavy enough and with these plates it would be hard to recognise the head in this whole pile of metal. i would suggest to scale up a little bit the head and to pose the neck and head more forward and down. i doodled a little bit in ps about what i meen.
well thats my opinion about it and hope it helps or give more ideas :)
good luck :)

[Tarik2d]

O right ok, cheers I'll have a look at posing his head differently and scaling it up and seeing what it looks like
thanks :)

[Tarik2d]

I have quickly just darken the lower jaw in photoshop and put a little glow on the eye, rough as it is. Does this help with the head?

Cheers

[Destrega]

I think it helps maybe a little bit, but all in all (as I told you yesterday) I think people who see this the first time will have diffculties understanding this whole body. When a viewer has no idea what is what the first idea is to think the the highest part (in this case his left arm) is the head part. So because you have a very confusing metal structure (dont get me wrong, it looks cool:) ) you should refer to a more simple pose, or change the camera angle, that his head is the highest position. Just as you did on the first post you showed him in the environment, he stood there only without a pose. And nobody had problems understanding the body structure. This problem is also common to the real transformers, its also sometimes hard to see what is what:)

[Tarik2d]

Ok, I'll have to have a think, Im not sure how much I can rework it at this stage

[Tarik2d]

OK, how about this? Ive sketched in a chest piece at the front.

[Destrega]

Better. But what do you think of turning his left hand a bit towards the viewer that we can easisly recognize fingers - then the viewer know at once that this is no head right now we mainly see the thumb and one finger, which also could be a screaming mouth.

[Tarik2d]

His left arm is going to be blured a bit as its in the background and it is pressed up against the wall above him

[Cordero]

Hey! The new updates rocks, they really pops out the head even more!
I'm looking forward to your final entry! And you should post some close ups here on this thread if you have the time. I would be curious what you have there.

I was thinking, and maybe a huge text should say "This is the HEAD" with an arrow from it, so if anytime a goat or a dog looks at it, even he will now where the head is!:D

[Tarik2d]

Cheers Cordero,

Does anyone know if this is the actually NEST logo from transformers I cant find out