Did you see the concept art I made a while back for him?

You can find the link in my signature.

Look for the motaro WIP link.

cool! needs some hair too.
what's with the pointy stomache thing?

If he grabs you, he can do a bear hug and kill the opponent with the waist spike armor.

I'm going to make some changes to the armor though, so it looks kooler.

I made a quick test animation for the face.

Click here to see the clip

that is crazy awsome! you are doing great man.

Well, the mesh is holding up pretty good. You just need to work on the phoenems now. Then again that's only if you plan on speech. I'd work on giving him a more fearsome look. No offense, but he looks like he's trying to take a crap right now.

Wyatt

He's constipated. hahaha...

I need to add a few more loops to the face for easier deformations.

So I can do more wrinkles like around the mouth, nose bridge and the outer corners of the eyes.

I'll do that today and get started on the armor. The body is pretty much done. All I need to do is make small tweaks here and there when I see something is off.

I'm thinking of putting a lot of carvings on the armor like Roman armor.

Not sure if I should model the detail or just do it with bump mapping. I think I'll end up going with Bump though. That's much faster and easier.

I made a new sketch for the armor design.

I'm thinking some Bronze and chrome with lot's of little carved details.

I think the horns on his waist guard will be made of bone.

I also have a band around part of his horns, like wrist bands.

We'll see though, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want him to look like.

The body looks correctly proportioned. This is going to be great when it's finished.



Ka-Tra

The very first animation test.

I haven't started setting up the vertex weights yet. I just messed around a little with the envelopes.

I still have a ton of cleaning up to do on him.

Sorry, I can't put big files online, I don't have much room in my host.


Click here to see the first test animation


Also the model is not finished yet, I still have to make his armor and textures, but I need to have him moving today. I have to show it to someone....

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For those wondering why he's deforming like that with spikes and stuff.

That's because the vertex points that make up the mesh aren't moving correctly with the bones.

I have to set up every single point so it moves smoothly with the model which will take me a few hours to get right.

If you don't know what a vertex point is, It's the corners of every square on a wire frame. Like a box has 4 corners, so there are 4 vertex points.

The weight is how much the vertex points are pulled by a bone.

The bones are like real bones, when the bones move, the mesh will deform with it.

The purpose of a test animation with him stretching like that is so that I can see what points I need to fix.

looks great man, what you gonna do with this when you're done? I recomend making someone else and doing the first REAL 3d fake fataility ever =-D

This gets better every time!! I cant wait to see the finished product

I agree. That'd be awesome. Great job btw.

You're great Bleed, the guy looks so real and maybe you should be a moderator.

I'm remodeling the Arms and chest area. I had some trouble with the edge loops.

It was making animation a pain so I have to fix it.

I'm almost done with that though.


Here is a quick walk animation that I made for him.

It's only the bones moving but when I get the model rigged and ready for animation, he'll be walking.

Walk

it's good, but the tail swings a little too much. also, have it swing from side to side (but thats just being picky. good job, dude!)

The tail is swinging in a figure 8 it's kind of hard to tell from that angle though. And yeah I agree, it's moving way too much.

Looks great Bleed, but I agree that the tail is moving to much. Great job none-the-less though. Keep up the good work.

Lookin great man. Glad you are sharing your progress with us instead of waiting and showin us when you are 100% done. I bet it's nice getting helpful feedback too. =-)

It helps a lot.

Hey yow man
waddup Bleed
I saw your motaro tho... it really kicks ass
it's just beautiful man... u said you wanna put armors on him, well I'm makin a drawing of motaro
When it's done I'll scan it and send it to you...
I ain't bad tho... so I guess it's worth trying...
There's somethin else I wanted to tell ya, I got 3d max 5 for bout a year but I just don't know how to work with it, it's like to difficult for me, can you help me out on this,
I know it'll take time, but would you please teach me how to work with it?
I ain't no retard so... I'm gon' learn it fast
I saw you a guide on your side, it's good but can you please give me the buttons and all shit, I wanna learn some more, it would be really nice of you
So... start from the beginning if you wanna.
I mean... look... I can draw, some peeps say that I'm real good, so... who knows, maybe we can share ideas man.
Thanks
write me tho
ps
We all are hoping that you get that job that you want in Midway

OK, I finally got him rigged all smooth.

It took me like 5 hours to rig him from scratch.




Also, don't pay attention to the tail, this is just a test animation.


To learn how to use 3D max, go to this site, and download the video tutorials for the "goblin"

You have to get a free membership at the download site to get the videos.

It's all free.

Go here


I was showing a friend of mine how to model in Max and I noticed that even if you know how to use all the buttons, you need to understand how to model in 3D space.

Basically keep everything in smooth lines.

Try not to have any lines that look like lightning in the mesh. keep them all very smooth.

You can practice by modeling small things, like model an eye or something small like that to get used to it.

i really cant get over how cool this is.. thank you for keeping us updated with your progress!

now make him do a double backflip, turn into a fireball, then shoot out of a skulls mouth! .........well ok nevermind. Lookin great man!

it looks awesome!!