Spider - update 2-6-06

Hey all.

This is a project I made today. You could call it a personal-speed-modelling-contest, but becouse I don’t have much time recently, I don’t have much of a choice… The creation of the complete project took about three hours. The render took about 13 minutes in high-res with Blender Internal.

UPDATE 2-6-'06
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4/spider51fv.th.jpg
UPDATE 2-6-'06

– update 2-6-'06 –
I’ve added lots of things plus I thought the VW van should be beamed… the update is the tn above.

C&C Most welcome…

Wow, thats really good for just 3 hours work. All models from scratch and everything?

Good job!!! :slight_smile:

Matt

Blend on, and blend well!!!

That’s really great.
Are those legs done with the mesh along the curve modifier or is it hand modelled?
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Looks great, it’s even more impressive that that was only three hours.

Thanks all.
The legs were created with a 3d curve as a path of a simple dupli-framed mesh.

Yes it was done from scratch in 3 hours, but I have invested some more hours in it and pasted some of the models I have created earlier in it. I think it has improved a lot. I hope you like it too. C&C most welcome.
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/8041/spider32lw.th.jpg
Cheers.

Congrat are in order for you… You certainly know how to composite an image, I actually feel as if the scene is moving… Wow, just wow.

Sweet, reminds me of “The Incredibles” omni-droid…

http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/movies/incredibles/omnidroid_08_2.jpg
http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/movies/incredibles/omnidroid_m_1.jpg

Looks awesome! But…
Where is the light source? The shadow of the airplane on the building with the flags looks very… off. To me, it looks like there is a phantom plane about to crash, because I can’t find a plane that fits that shadow.
Interested in this! :stuck_out_tongue: - Love the little details!

The shadows are okay, they’re from the two planes in the left of the image. The lamp is on the right of the image. but tnx for the critic.

Little update:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7697/spin172xf.th.jpg

I’ve made some more modifications. Pic in the first post. C&C please.

The laser beam looks a bit off… Other than that it looks awesome. :slight_smile:

I know. I posted the version I didn’t post-pro-ed. In the first post now, is the good one… :slight_smile:

I really like the addition of the force field, and the laser beam looks much better now.

Hey, since The Crosswalk is an open movie you are more than welcome to download some of our buildings for youe scene. Go to our forum, there are tons of tall back ground buidings high and low poly. Give a little more randomness to the buildings. I am also going to be posting the cars here in a few days.

I like the robot, He looks like a mean mofo.

Only other thing I would recommend is adding more legs. Maybe one holding up a car and another holding a person. Like the robots did in War of the Worlds.

Looks good. You know, those planes are WW2 German Stukkas. I just wanted to tell you

Very good design, and a nice scene.
Now IMHO, it needs some motion blur and fire (specially under the VW)
light also needs some rework.

I agree al, and that’s where my attention will be. But first I want to add other things like, as said, some difference in the buildings, some more detail there too, some birds, a tram-line with a tram, traffic-lights and some other things. But I will also make motion-blurr, improve the lightning and perhaps make some explosions.

There is two Stuka’s there indeed, the white one in the middle is a Fokker D21.

Thanks for the idea Enriq766, I will make modifications in the city itselve, but I won’t use other’s models, but I will take a look at it.

By the way, it supposed to be an american city like New York in 1960 or so. Not very obvious perhaps, that’s why I just say it.

Thanks for the C&C all, and it’s still really appreciated. :slight_smile:

I don’t think so. Looks like your spot is too close to the scene, which makes the shadows appear too big.

Your should also change to a buffer spot or small area light to get nicer shadows.

I like the way you have captured a moment in time. It looks like things are moving.
I don’t notice the textures, which is good.
It might look better with stronger shadows, but you could just say that clouds are blocking the sun :slight_smile:

I think it looks like the one in The Incredibles, like someone already has stated :smiley:

Nice work, where’s Superman when we need him?