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dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:45 am

looking pretty good.

could you not mount the camera in the head of the black one, so that we see his legs and his attcker, sort of shoot it from his perspective?

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:11 pm

That's pretty much what I was aiming at in the first shot. Not quite worked though.

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:30 pm

oh yeah, I see now - but he wasn't black in that render. You might have to go slightly wider angle and cheat his legs in a bit to make them fit.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:08 am

great! I like both

mamoret · Post by **mamoret** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:23 am

Great Model, amazing render

( the black and white have an incredible atmosphere)

I think the bot's pose can be a little more explicit for a battle scene, or maybe the point of view....

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:27 am

mamoret
Kram1032
Thanks guys. I ran into trouble posing these guys. I can't make sense out of Blender's armature system. Need to work more on it. Right now it blows big holes in my meshes. So I posed everything by hand working from one basic symmetric pose which I saved in a different layer.

0charly0 · Post by **0charly0** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:24 am

impressive too!

there isn't any noise on your renders... If not indiscreet, how long do you need for a render like this one?

(I mean computering)

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:29 am

0charly0
Thanks. It really depends on the scene. This one took 21 hours on four cores at 2.4ghz each. It may sound crazy but I try to render the slower scenes at higher resolution. Generally 2400x1800. Downsampling then gets rid of most hard-to-get-rid-of noise. That's for print-quality final renders, however, which have to be over 4m pixels. If I'm doing something that won't be printed, I go for 1600x1200, and all test renders at 800x600, which clear extremely fast on the quad.

kadajawi · Post by **kadajawi** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:37 am

Not bad. Wouldn't expect that it clears out so fast.

Have you seen the new Nissan billboard ad in Germany? I believe it's for the X-Trail. The car is surrounded by robots that somewhat reminded me of yours. Cool too.

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:24 pm

Yes I saw that and looked at how they'd done their articulations. In fact, I wanted to try and model their robots, but couldn't find a proper reference image to take with me (they seem to have only the billboards, no print ads) so I approximated it from memory. Well spotted!

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:24 am

The 4WD add?
O.o Didn't notice that lol
Yeah, now that you say, it's obvious

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