my very own spider-ipod

Hi all!

This is my latest project made in blender. I first made a simple ipod and then I decided to attach som legs to make it able to walk for some reason…

Well I’ve uploaded the pictures below but there is two things i wanna know:

  1. How do you rigg robotlegs etc that has hydralics and wires attached to it? is there a way to make everything follow the object, retract etc.? do you know a good tutorial?

  2. How do you make a realistic defocus thing? I’ve tried to make it in the node editor but it ends up blurring the whole picture…

Anyway, here’s the pics, enjoy (if you can…)

![http://visionbin.com/modules/filesystem/uploads/6878763_min ipod.jpg](http://visionbin.com/modules/filesystem/uploads/6878763_min ipod.jpg)

I made this into:

http://visionbin.com/modules/filesystem/uploads/2054384_ipodspindel.jpg

http://visionbin.com/modules/filesystem/uploads/9707876_ipodspindel2.jpg

http://visionbin.com/modules/filesystem/uploads/7200242_ipodspindel3.jpg

Well, say what you think about it : )

Cool!
How is it powered, where are they motors?

Not bad. If you set the object you want to defocus on a new render layer, you can manipulate that render layer separatly in the node editor. Cheers!

Photoguy@: The motors is actually on the legs if you can say that, well there are hydralics on the legs that make them move but the computer-thing that “thinks” for the robot is inside the ipod itself. The data that tells the hydralics to retract etc travels along the wires you can see in the picture.

Sanguine@: Ok, i’ll try that, though I think I’ve tried that before. Anyway thanks for the tip, i’ll se if it works : )

Ok I looked up a tutorial to make defocus and came up with this but I’d still wanna know about the rigging thing if anyone can help.

![http://visionbin.com/modules/filesystem/uploads/9862662_ipodspindel blur.jpg](http://visionbin.com/modules/filesystem/uploads/9862662_ipodspindel blur.jpg)