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# 31 07-02-2006 , 01:54 PM

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Hey Mat,

It took me a while to find it again, but check out this video of this man dancing. Some of his moves are amazing - especially his sideways moonwalk near the end. The quality of the clip is pretty bad, but I just thought that it might provide a couple of cool moves for your frobot.

https://www.guzer.com/videos/asian_robot_dance.php

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# 32 07-02-2006 , 01:58 PM

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I don't know how you are going to do that?

You could try rotoscoping it I guess.

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# 33 07-02-2006 , 03:05 PM

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He's not human!!!!!!

Thanks for the link arran, I'd quite like him to do a few robotic moves in the middle of the sequence but nothing quite so advanced. I chose to do this project as a learning exercise, hopefully I will have learnt enough to have him pull off a few simple moves before the end of it.

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# 34 07-02-2006 , 03:36 PM

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glad you liked it Mat! Your Frobot is looking cool by the way. And I really like the dance floor. I have only done a bit of modelling so far so I'm looking forward to seeing your animation.

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# 35 07-02-2006 , 09:14 PM

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Hello,

The main lights are done. Next on the to do list, I think, is to add details to the bar, pumps, bottles, till etc.

Take it easy,

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# 36 07-02-2006 , 10:48 PM

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Yer and some bottles on the central support and maybe some butts on the floor.

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# 37 08-02-2006 , 01:58 PM

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Yeah, I'll get round to making it into a bit of a dive when i'm happy with it when it's clean.

Until then here's an update, I've made a start on stuff behind the bar, covers for the lamps above the bar and a neon sign that says DISCO (unfortunately the render I've posted isn't at a very good angle to show that off!!).

Take it easy,

Mat.

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# 38 08-02-2006 , 02:07 PM

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Yer it's coming along nice there, my head is just brimming with all the things that it should have but know that will all come in time.

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# 39 10-02-2006 , 06:16 PM

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Sorry for the delay in updates, I had a bit of a mishap. I somehow screwed up the geometry on the walls and didn't even realise until I loaded it up the next day (duh!). It's all sorted now and I have made a little progress on the bar area.

Tim I know what you mean about brimming with ideas, each time I work on this I think of something else that it could have! I'd be glad to hear any other ideas, I can't promise they will make it into the final model but it would be fun to know.

Heres my progress.

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# 40 10-02-2006 , 06:18 PM

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A closer look...

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# 41 10-02-2006 , 09:19 PM

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Pinball machine

Maybe some other cool cats at the bar

Celling fans?

Neon adverts behind the bar

Jukebox has to be the must user added image

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# 42 11-02-2006 , 05:08 PM

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Great work mat! Your night club is beginning to really take shape. Yeah, I think a juke box and pinball machine would definately add to your scene and would probably be fun to model as well. This is looking really good so far.

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# 43 11-02-2006 , 05:33 PM

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Cheers for your thoughts,

I like all of your ideas Tim, I hadn't thought of having a pin ball machine, genius! The whole thing has sort of snowballed in my head from the simple model focusing on animation into a full blown bar scene with multiple characters. I may be a little out of my depth at the moment, but hey it's all a learning experience! I'm not giving myself a time limit on this as I am learning along the way, but I will see this one through to the end, however long it takes!!

arran, thanks for being so positive about my model.

Here's a small update, the tills are textured!

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# 44 11-02-2006 , 05:37 PM

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That's pure old school man, im liking how this is coming on.

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# 45 15-02-2006 , 01:16 PM

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Keeping my eye on this thread, some sweet progress being made, keep up the good work dude.

P.S. do you have a fro? i truly hope you do! party on dude, gotta go disco dancing, i'll check back later.

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