Monday, February 28, 2011

Works in progress

At the moment I am working on two private projects of which I can not show any imagery yet. I will post the final results soon however. One is a still piece with my new Panzercrew and my Panzer I, and the other is a short film (~30 seconds) of my BF109 and Spitfire having a dogfight in a students room. I got asked by someone to help him realise the dogfight scenes in his live footage.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Bride of Pinbot model finished

The model I talked about earlier for Dutch Pinball is finished. Meet "the Bride of Pinbot" :



She has various facial expressions for animation purposes and is fully moveable but not rigged with bones or a biped. The model will be use on the custom pinball machines Dot Matrix display that is being re-programmed by Dutch Pinball in various animations.

As usual when working from (old) drawings there is a bit of a gap between what is depicted in the drawing, and what is possible in a 3D sense:) So for this project I used some artistic freedom in the general flow of the model and certain parts that were never properly depicted in the first place.

Here is an unsmoothed wireframe of the model for those interested. Expect more on this project soon!

As a bonus, here is the add that will be published in  PinGame Journal. Photo integration done by me, layout and background photo by Dutch Pinball.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

1939 Panzer crewmember

This is the finished basic Panzer crewmember model I’ve produced to go with my future pieces. The soldier is wearing the 1939 Panzer uniform with a headset and throat microphone.
He is rigged with a biped and he has some basic facial expressions, his headphones and microphone are rigged too as well as the cables.

I will further refine and update the rig while producing work with him.