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.

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.

Panzercrew update 2

Small update. Worked on the face and hair this weekend. Still messing around with the subsurface shader for the skin.

Left: With cap
Middle: Close-up
Right: without cap

The Machine: Bride of Pinbot

At the moment I’m working on a new model: The Bride of Pinbot. This model will be used for various Dot Matrix Display animations by Dutch Pinball. Dutch Pinball is reprogramming a real pinball machine using a new pinball controller board (P-ROC) to incorporate their own new rule sheet, graphics & sound. More information about this very prestigious project can be found at: www.dutchpinball.com. Check it out!

Panzercrew update

Here is an update on the Panzer crewmember I was working on. Basic clothing, decals and sculpting finished. The more advanced folds with actual displacement will be done each time I pose this model on. Now I am going to focus on the minor details and after that the skin and eyes.

Short animation project

At the moment I am working on a short animation project spanning about a month and hopefully finish this around Christmas time. It's for a set of commercials on a Dutch TV channel. I've learned quite a lot already about animating bipeds and facial expressions and I must say I really like doing this kind of work.

It's also the first actual human character I've animated and I was actually planning on experimenting with it anyway when this project came along. Plus side is that now I get paid to do it instead of doing it in my spare time! :)

Once I have permission and they are released, I will put some of the animation work on here and on my website. In the meantime It's going to be a little bit quiet here since I am focussing on animating, lipsync, rendering and such.

Panzer crewmember 1939 WIP

Started working on some crew for my Panzer I. This is the start of a German 1939 Panzer crew member. He will eventually be converted to a number of faces, but it is just one for now. It's still fairly early in the production so nothing more than raw model and basic shaders. Enjoy!