Splash WIP - Desk Fan Meets ...

[g60]

if you mean this one serious you must add a power cord to a fan
anyway if I close my eyes about robot nonfunctionality (which would definitely occurs in real life) it's a fine image, really like the fan

That's why the robot is so mystified! Obviously it is not too much of a serious piece. I wrote automation software for semiconductor inspection tools for years and those robotics look really boring --- too functional. I wanted something shiny and silly with an abdominal spring.

Here is the progress so far on the new pose. (Does it make his butt look too big?)

MLT + BiDir 8/8 320S/P and counting

Thanks for taking the time to look.

[Poncho]

I find that looking a lot better. I has more story and emotion in it.

Keep up the great work.

[loramel]

I wrote automation software for semiconductor inspection tools for years and those robotics look really boring --- too functional. I wanted something shiny and silly with an abdominal spring.

Having done the same type of job for over 9 years I know exactly what you mean. Robots get so demystified once you program them yourselves

I like the kneeling pose much better. I also find it good, that you dropped the motion blur on the finger, it was kind of distracting for me.

[psychotron]

ok no power cord.. so robot is surprised...
new pose is 100% better (and now I can see his arms and legs are functional too in terms of free motion )
maybe you can try turn his head to face camera... and maybe if you model some kind of robotic eyebrows you can make a surprised emotion with it

edit: or you could make him a whole new display in visor from tiny one color leds - which can show something like: !@#?%$
and you get surprised and 'pissed up' emotion in one simple step even without eyebrows...

[Carbonflux]

This version is good imo, I now get the story at a glance

[g60]

Well, I'm afraid this is final. I say "afraid" because I have yet to see how the visor works out; it is lagging behind everything else and has me worried. I'm going to let this continue to cook until the visor clears but I will post it however it looks in the morning.

24-hours and still rendering ....

It is probably obvious that I spent most of my time on the body material and the fan motion relative to the lights. The LED eyes are actually very small cubes with very low power (and yes, I did look up the wiki on red LEDs!) The visor is clear, not smoked, with amber thin film coating and I think it is taking a beating from the strong area emitter panel I have pointing right at it. The strong specular of the body material doesn't help. Even with the Mohawk and that lovely blur of the lower fan blade, I am still drawn to those eyes.

[Radiance]

Hey,

I quite liked the previous version, the head looked better...
Since there's only 4 or 5 entries i will probably photoshop up versions of the entries as 'actual' splashscreens for the voting,
so if you're short on time, you can render directly at 500 pixels wide, that should be pretty fast, and submit that, then submit a propperly rendered higher resolution afterwards...

Let me know in the morning what's happening

Radiance

[Radiance]

forgot,

i think the visor is touching the plastic head, or VERY closely, thereby creating a lot of bounces in between.
I'd either stick it slightly 'in' our more 'out' of the head.

Radiance

[Carbonflux]

I can see why you are worried about the Visor, interesting idea too really I think either one is fine in a way because you got the gesture.

Since there's only 4 or 5 entries i will probably photoshop up versions of the entries as 'actual' splashscreens for the voting,

I submit its better to let the person who rendered it put the text on, they will best know how to do it, I think we should vote on the images without the text overlay. or extend the deadline after posting the text to be overlayed.

[Radiance]

I submit its better to let the person who rendered it put the text on, they will best know how to do it, I think we should vote on the images without the text overlay. or extend the deadline after posting the text to be overlayed.

I've already got a ready made overlay, and still need to update all the member names...
Just leave that to me

Radiance