Yes Josho..the render is crap...BUT THE BLOODY robot...is a pearler...absolutley spot on. You too have the "toy" aspect looking well, some great models on here...and yes I realise the 'quality' of the dimensions are good on modern toys...but IMO I belive simple toys and shapes wins the day...unless its a train set., then who gives a shit....detail it is.

Mate, for a bloke thats been away for a while, this is a nice effort, keep it up man...dont stop...nail the damn thing to the wall.

cheers bullet

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bullet1968

"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes

Thank You Bullet :-) ! I appreciate it. I hope to have some updates posted today.

Thank You Dave! Yup, I'm still in! And I think your work is kicking butt :-) !

I was kidding about the render too josho...nothing wrong with it. hope you didnt take my Aussie humour the wrong way...I forget soemtimes people dont understand us southerners LOL...keep up the good work mate

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bullet1968

"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes

Nice Render joshpurple............. Good Luck Man......

I was kidding about the render too josho...nothing wrong with it. hope you didnt take my Aussie humour the wrong way...I forget soemtimes people dont understand us southerners LOL...keep up the good work mate

Originally Posted by bullet1968

Bullet, you're awesome, and no worries at all! Your humor is always appreciated, -and just for that I'm going to attach bottle rockets to your toy car <8^D !

Thank You Nukefr! Your modeling skills are AWESOME!! Your tank is unreal!

Latest render, -man trying to model under a tight deadline... ACK! 8^D !! But I'm luv'n it.

Link to larger (full) version

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/477599/RoboR...spective02.png

Well Josho...I have just returned from getting my boys from school, cos its raining and I had the arvo off...and opened this thread..my 7 year old LOki just said "whoa Dad, thats a cool looking robot! must be a remote control one eh Dad?" LOL so the fella's here think its damned good mate. If Loki says its good...dont bloody argue with him...simple LOL. Looks good mate...few days left.

cheers bullet

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bullet1968

"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes

I am now an official fan of Loki :-D ! Thank You and him, no arguments from me.
(does Maya have a 'Move the deadline back button' somewhere in it's UI 8-D )

Another test/draft render of my latest progress. I enabled iray, set-up an hdri enviroment, used one large mental ray photometric area light, and let it render for ~ 15 minutes;

Link to full-sized render.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/477599/RoboR...spective03.png

Thank You so much for extending the deadline :-D !!!

I've still got a lot to work on; mirroring over, fixing mistakes, adding details, creating a lighting set / attempting to make a nice composition, toning in photoshop, etc. <-- if I even get to any of that 8^D .

what materials are you using? that looks pretty damn good

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Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
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wow mate...thats bloody nice!!! and Im with chirone...what materials have you used?

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bullet1968

"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes

Bloody good man! Kinda glad I didn't end up being able to enter this comp, woulda been embarrassed

glad to see you've managed to get it done..great job josh

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illuzionizt.cgsociety

Thank You Illuzt, Acid, Bullet, Chirone , I appreciate it!
I've been using the "mia_x_material." (attempting to go with a linear/gamma correct rendering set-up).
And an hdri image for the environment (get some extra lighting from it, reflections, etc. ).