First draft Guyver Unit

[Zin]

 

I've also made an animation but it's quite large as it's high def. The organism inside moves around as you would expect to see.

[Guyver0]

Not bad..  What program are you using?

[H222G981]

Looks great! I love it! 

[Zin]

Sorry it took me a while, work and rl stuff.  I appreciate the kind words.  I'm using blender to create the model.  I'm actually slowly ( 1 person doing the job of many ) coding something special in Unity.  Not sure on the legal standpoint at this point so I may have to scrap everyting Guyver related if I run into a road block.  If not, 3d Guyver game is in the works.  Slowly.  Very very slowly.

[Zin]

quarter resolution version of the anim so it can fit under the 1mb limit

losresolution.avi

[*Jess♥]

what technique are you using?

is it simple mesh edit for the outer casing and an extruded shape for the organic bits?
I had a number of tries at doing a g-unit, it's quite tricky to get it right isn't it? especially the organic bits.

Good work, I look forward to seeing your progress

[Zin]

As far as technique, i'm not sure that I'm using a specific one lol.  But the technicals are this.  Using multiple referrence pictures, I created the outer parts individually, then once I have a rough shape I like, I fine tune positioning and general look and feel.  After that, I parent the individual parts to eachother and then to the central sphere, using it as a rotation reference point.  Paste in a few copies, build your color schemes.  Then move on to the organism once the "shell" is built.  For the organism, I find that a torus shape is perfect, randomize the verticies, and smooth, rinse and repeat until you get a single ring of smooth, natural, bio-material.  For extra smoothing, after i have the general shape i want, I then subdivide the verticies once to allow for an even smoother look when I smooth it out. Repeat a few times, and you have approx 20-30 rings to make up the organism.  Flatten out and streatch a few torus rings to give some filler between the organism.  Then start on the animation.  Setting each ring slightly offset on the z axis and using thhe sphere as the pivot point, it's just time consuming to set a key, then move each ring to where you want it, and set another key.  Render the animation, and you're done.

[*Jess♥]

I see! so pretty much mesh editing.

using torus' for the organic bits is a pretty good way to go. especially using deformations. I think it might be quite cool to use a smoke texture for a displacement map if you want to improve it. it would give a smoother and more billious shape.

I'm not familiar with blender though so I'm not sure if the tools are there.