Doktor Gonzo Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 (edited) Got taken by the Macross bug, broke out my old model and started tweaking. The attached shows off my new bits -- a radar, ladder, and up-detailed verniers. More to come, perhaps, if the wife and kids let me do more playing with my computer tonight! Edited May 26, 2011 by Doktor Gonzo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodavan Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Good to see you @ it again - looking great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Good to see you @ it again - looking great nice! more pics please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommar Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 That model looks pretty sweet. Did you base it off of any kits or is it your own design? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted May 27, 2011 Author Share Posted May 27, 2011 That model looks pretty sweet. Did you base it off of any kits or is it your own design? It started off based on the Hasegawa 1/72 fighter kit, but I've tweaked everything endlessly since then, so it's really mostly my own design at this point. This model was one of my first, and I've never stopped occasionally working with it -- I guess it's like that first car that some people keep in their garage and endlessly tinker with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted May 27, 2011 Author Share Posted May 27, 2011 nice! more pics please! Sure! Here's detail on the leg innards (copied from the Hase 1/48 kit): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 More detail.... looping gif of the way the shoulders fill in during transformation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodavan Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Very cool Dok ... wish I had time for modeling More detail.... looping gif of the way the shoulders fill in during transformation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Very cool Dok ... wish I had time for modeling Yeah, not sure how long my latest bout of obsessive playing will last before real life tears me away Also of interest here: I recovered low-rez versions of my textures off of an old CD. 720x720 is a long way from the 4k images I originally created, but it's still the best I've had since my portable drive was stolen last year, and a BIG improvement on only being able to do clay renders! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul.assassin Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Amazing! Given that your project takes a big deal of effort to make and tweak, it's always good judgment to backup that stuff periodically to CD or DVD rewritables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 Amazing! Given that your project takes a big deal of effort to make and tweak, it's always good judgment to backup that stuff periodically to CD or DVD rewritables. Totally agree. I told everybody this sob story before, but basically the portable drive WAS my backup. In spring 2010, a big electrical transformer blew in my neighborhood... totally fried my PC, and caused an HD failure of some sort (the model I recovered was one of the things I was able to reobtain through disc recovery on the sick drive.) Power was out for several days, so we were camping out at my parents' house and I was toting the portable drive (which ordinarily I kept locked up at home) back and forth to work, since I lacked my usual workstation/network connectivity. And, of course, one day I fell asleep on the commuter railroad and it got stolen from me. Totally my fault, but a ridiculous chain of coincidence nonetheless. Meanwhile, as I continue digging through old archive CDs, I just found my Max/Millia textures. Interesting thing is that they're still at the original rez of the lost source PSDs, rather than the 1/4 size cutdowns I have for the Roy scheme... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aztek Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Ain't been by in years DG ... forgot how to model Your work looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aztek Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 DG do you have ref pics for the leg detail? I've been thinking of doing the same thing in my model ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 Ain't been by in years DG ... forgot how to model Your work looks great! Judging by your new Elintseeker armor pieces, you have most definitely NOT forgotten how to model! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 DG do you have ref pics for the leg detail? I've been thinking of doing the same thing in my model ... Yeah, I used pics of the Hasegawa 1/48 fighter model as a basis: Hase leg detail Note that there's other lineart out there that shows a completely different set of detail: lineart but I liked the Hase version better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aztek Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Thanks for the ref pics ... I forgot about that old lineart. I am still uncovering years old line drawings I've had stashed. The modeling is coming back way quicker than I thought and somehow I am more efficient now? Not sure what happened there ... Thanks for posting your updates .... it got me kickstarted to get back in the game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 23, 2011 Author Share Posted June 23, 2011 Some additional work, though I'm not sure how well it comes across in this render: reshaped the nose somewhat so as to make it less cylindrical/more trapezoidal, with a more pronounced flat area on top. This brings it more into line with the DYRL lineart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akt_m Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Awesome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DatterBoy Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Sure! Here's detail on the leg innards (copied from the Hase 1/48 kit): I want mine to look like that too!!! The detail is astounding. Can't wait to see what it looks like once you texture it. I'm thinking you should and likely will embellish that with more detail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 26, 2011 Author Share Posted June 26, 2011 Random rendered image, playing with lighting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott8539 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Doktor Gonzo that detail is outstanding cant wait to see more renders upclose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Wallpapers please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 Believe it or not, I have trouble rendering anything much larger than this -- my machine is old and creaky and, if I try for too large a render, Maya crashes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 That said, a little Photoshop goes a long way! Here's an action render at wallpaper rez! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Awesome! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 Awesome! Thank you! Sure thing. Any other poses or modes you'd like to see renders of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Sure thing. Any other poses or modes you'd like to see renders of? All that you can are welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Random comp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frothymug Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Haha... is that the spillway near the 405-101 intersection in Encino, CA? I used to drive by that thing all of the time when I lived in the LA area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 Haha... is that the spillway near the 405-101 intersection in Encino, CA? I used to drive by that thing all of the time when I lived in the LA area. It's the Sepulveda Dam in LA. I honestly know nothing about the place, beyond that it's been used as a filming location for stuff like TERMINATOR 2, GREASE and BUCKAROO BANZAI... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frothymug Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Yeah, that's the same one. You can see it on the west side of the 405 as you're approaching the 101 from the north. I didn't see it in T2. I did see where they did scenes in the drainage channels in Northridge. In one scene, you can even see a street sign in the background with the name "Plummer" on it. I lived right off of that street in Northridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doktor Gonzo Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 Yeah, that's the same one. You can see it on the west side of the 405 as you're approaching the 101 from the north. I didn't see it in T2. I did see where they did scenes in the drainage channels in Northridge. In one scene, you can even see a street sign in the background with the name "Plummer" on it. I lived right off of that street in Northridge. Hahahah, that's awesome. I think it was just used for some of the nighttime "future war" stuff in T2. The use in Buckaroo Banzai is a lot more prominent: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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