Mr. Boulderhead

[Krado]

I got laid off again so I've had 2 days to work on this.  I ended up having to do 1 triangle at a time until I got most of the left hemisphere.  Then mirrored it.  I drew an eye from lookin' in the mirror and slapped it on the model so I could figure out dimensions.  The eye in the corner is from an early version when he looked even more like a blob.  For reasons unknow I couldn't get a "Jade" color.  Plus the colors are most likely to be the color palette for the skin etc...  Now I need the mouth, chin and hammer out the some of the points before I tackle the textures/skin.

I don't have a lot of FTP space so I doubt there'll be anymore pictures until he's done I guess.

Dr. Kradostein

[Bad Sector]

nice nose. What program you use? :-)

Hint: have three viewports: top, left, front and draw a sketch of that what you want to model for each viewport. Then make the triangles to outline that sketch. This will make your job easier (i made a small fluffy guy once with that method).

[JohnRomeroWorshiper]

Hello Dr. Kradostein  

Mr. Boulderhead looks good so far Dana, obviosuly with mroe detail he'll look mroe realsiitc, looking forward to seeing the final version  

[Bad Sector]

there are many mesh smoothing algorythms. With one of those (and some post editing), yes it would look more realistic. 3D Studio MAX has "smooth", i think. But i'm not that sure how it performs that "smooth"...

[chiQ]

Good start - keep going  

[thezombieman]

Man, that head looks like a really good begining.
Soon you will surprise everybody here with an amazing design.    

PD.- May I supouse that the "Ghetto Blaster" project has been cancelled?

[Krado]

quote:Originally posted by Bad Sector:
nice nose. What program you use? :-)

Hint: have three viewports: top, left, front and draw a sketch of that what you want to model for each viewport. Then make the triangles to outline that sketch. This will make your job easier (i made a small fluffy guy once with that method).

I left the nose a little large because I want to smooth it some more.  I haven't registered the program yet.  Having a background image would help!  I'm using MilkShape 3D.  So far it's been the best one for me. I downloaded Blender but the Help file is Documentation is 37 megs and AOL is slow these days.

[Krado]

quote:Originally posted by JohnRomeroWorshiper:
Hello Dr. Kradostein    

Mr. Boulderhead looks good so far Dana, obviosuly with mroe detail he'll look mroe realsiitc, looking forward to seeing the final version  

Thanks Ben!  I think just takin' my time is helping.  People are a lot harder than Flyin' Ghetto Blasters!.  When I get this done I may try to make him a Half-Life Scientist? =0)

[Krado]

quote:Originally posted by chiQ:
Good start - keep going  

Thank You!  I swear I don't see how you do this. This is wearin' me out!  I'm determined to stick with this, but I got a long way to go yet.

[JohnRomeroWorshiper]

quote:Originally posted by Krado:

quote:Originally posted by JohnRomeroWorshiper:
Hello Dr. Kradostein      

Mr. Boulderhead looks good so far Dana, obviosuly with mroe detail he'll look mroe realsiitc, looking forward to seeing the final version      

Thanks Ben!  I think just takin' my time is helping.  People are a lot harder than Flyin' Ghetto Blasters!.  When I get this done I may try to make him a Half-Life Scientist? =0)

 I dont think the half scientists bodies should be too 'difficult' as they have white suits, so the colour aspect wont be hard, as for the heads? not sure, I know theres at least 3 type of scientists faces in Half life, including one who looks ver similiar to ALbert Einstein  

But Mr. Boulderhead should look what ever you want him too, you shouldnt restrict yourself in anyway, that way you got the 'designer's freedom'  

[Krado]

quote:Originally posted by JohnRomeroWorshiper:

quote:Originally posted by Krado:
 

quote:Originally posted by JohnRomeroWorshiper:
Hello Dr. Kradostein        

Mr. Boulderhead looks good so far Dana, obviosuly with mroe detail he'll look mroe realsiitc, looking forward to seeing the final version      

Thanks Ben!  I think just takin' my time is helping.  People are a lot harder than Flyin' Ghetto Blasters!.  When I get this done I may try to make him a Half-Life Scientist? =0)

  I dont think the half scientists bodies should be too 'difficult' as they have white suits, so the colour aspect wont be hard, as for the heads? not sure, I know theres at least 3 type of scientists faces in Half life, including one who looks ver similiar to ALbert Einstein    

But Mr. Boulderhead should look what ever you want him too, you shouldnt restrict yourself in anyway, that way you got the 'designer's freedom'  

Uh oh!  I forgot I got learn how to make clothes!  Oh well, I'll just keep crammin' all this in my head until it explodes I guess.

[JohnRomeroWorshiper]

But you should be proud that chiQ thinks its good, as shes an expert on these things  

as for the clothes, I wouldnt worry, its probably best if people concetrate on one area of the body at a time, so they can specialize, i.e: the head, as each body part has differnet characteristics,

ps: how come you got 2 days out of work?  

[Krado]

quote:Originally posted by Bad Sector:
there are many mesh smoothing algorythms. With one of those (and some post editing), yes it would look more realistic. 3D Studio MAX has "smooth", i think. But i'm not that sure how it performs that "smooth"...

MS3D has a smoothing tool, but you can't use it on a model that's got a "hole" in it.  I don't know the right term but I tried with no effect.  I assume it's because it's not closed it.  If that makes sense.  Lol, It made the Ghetto Blaster look like an E-Type Jaguar!

[Krado]

quote:Originally posted by The Zombieman:
Man, that head looks like a really good begining.
Soon you will surprise everybody here with an amazing design.    

PD.- May I supouse that the "Ghetto Blaster" project has been cancelled?

Thanks Zombieman!  If I can get good enough at this I want to try Frazetta type characters.  LOL! I still like machines though...
http://www.frankfrazetta.com/ff/

Even Frazetta has gone "Internet Store" happy!

[JohnRomeroWorshiper]

Hey Dana, only the first picture of the ground combat attack vehicle looked like a  ghetto balster    

the final picture that you put up looks really impressive, I know that Terminator Skynet is an old game (made in 1995 or 1996), bt if you look at their ground attack vehicles (same concept), they look much simpler, and much mopre pixelated, so you're well on your way to making good looking game machines