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I was skimming through some Silver Age Legion stories and had an overwhelming urge to do some classic character renders.
I've decided to do a retro Legion in a more youth-oriented cartoon style (more like the animated Teen Titans than the animated Legion, both of which I enjoyed). I've cobbled the first batch together using mostly models and pieces I already had, trying to do the absolute minimum amount of modeling or texturing. As a result, most of the costumes are at least a little "off" from the originals, with one exception: Karate Kid (he's waaay off, as I preferred his more recent look over the old orange gi).
As it stands, I've done 17 of the first 25 or so Legionnaires I intend to do. Once they're all complete, I'll go back and either finish the characters more accurately or "update" them all to make them easier to animate (the coolest thing about them being 3D models is that they are easy to animate).
Here's a sampling of the first 100-or-so renders I've done so far, mainly character shots and scenes from the first story, "Mystery of the Robot Raiders", wherein a very, very old Legion Villain and a very, very new Villain are revealed to be one and the same.
Comments and criticisms welcome.
[ November 13, 2009, 10:21 AM: Message edited by: Space Cadet ]
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A quick Sun Boy test (picture is pure render, no postwork). I have to figure out a quick and easy "melting robot" effect. As always, click the thumbnail for a larger view.
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The nifty thing about setting up a 3D scene, of course, is shifting the camera to render another angle (many picts for the price of one). Click to enlarge.
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Jeckie and Nura (from the big group picture) look like they were born for this style. Cham looks pretty cool, too. I like that dark costume.
A whole story rendered up like this? Oh, so ambitious, and so cool!
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quote:Originally posted by Set: Jeckie and Nura (from the big group picture) look like they were born for this style. Cham looks pretty cool, too. I like that dark costume.
A whole story rendered up like this? Oh, so ambitious, and so cool!
Thanks; Cham's costume is one of those I still have to finish, the present one has two primitives on each shoulder and the texture is a sci-fi space navy texture (it should be pretty easy to model the shoulders, a proper collar and texture in the uniform scales and such). Once the characters, background and props are built, rendering out a story is a lot like playing with action figures; it's getting a decent story and thumbnailing it that actually becomes the harder part, at least for me. Well, that and not getting sidetracked.
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What software are you using? I've recently taken an interest in 3D art (made my first serious renders today), but I know next to nothing about it.
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quote:Originally posted by Space Cadet: [QUOTE]For modeling I'm still using Lightwave 8.5, but for these quick set-ups and rendering I'm basically playing with Poser and DAZ Studio.
I don't know much about Lightwave. I've got DAZ Studio 3, but I haven't really learned how to use it. The stuff I've done so far is with Bryce 5.5 (the freeware version).
ETA: I've been looking into Blender, but a lot of it's going over my head.
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I gather the Bionicle characters are stand-ins, and I wonder what sort of robots you'll be going for - some sort of 60s style, or more modern?
I'm definitely waiting for the final product.
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