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[Kodiak Jorgensson]

Greetings, welcome, hope you enjoy viewing my model/s i will only be posting the one model tonight its late iam sleepy and i only have the 3 renders .

so here is The Mad Dog, i had this model laying arround since about 2007/8 and i decided to improve on it since my modeling skills had improved since then.

programs i used
3D Studio Max
Mudbox
Lightwave
Photshop

constructive critisism is welcome


Ok so this is the orignal Mad Dog from an old Lightwave render.


started the textureing process using mudbox i think the textures come out really well hope you guys like it


sorry for the low Resolution, i like to keep it low for a WIP render.


i'm a Ghost Bear fan my self but i felt like makeing this for Smoke Jaguars 7the Jagur dragoons, i couldnt find a colour scheme for them so i used what i felt portrayed the jagaurs best.

i have some plans for this mech maybe a battle scene

the scene is a basic Render set up with 2 lights 1 Sky light to give the high quality mental ray render and an Omni light to simply add a little more interesting light.

again constructive critisim welcome, enjoy

[FACEman Peck]

Pretty cool, just a little more square. Making the arm guns looking like MW4 Mercs would be best, in my opinion. Rougher looking, and armored up, that's cool.

[CG Anastasius Focht]

Looks great, i love the cammo scheme

[James McCraney]

FACEman Peck, on 27 January 2012 - 10:07 PM, said:

Pretty cool, just a little more square. Making the arm guns looking like MW4 Mercs would be best, in my opinion. Rougher looking, and armored up, that's cool.

MW4? Don't say that! I really didn't like that model, I prefer the older style, but you do have a good point about the arms. They could use some reinforcement around the base of the barrels. Great work though Kodiak, I can't wait to see more of the Masakari!

[VoxeL]

Here is one of the best Kodiak's 3D-model of those that I saw:


Author: ~Punakettu (aka Vam).

[CoffiNail]

That always is a damn *** sexy Kodiak.

I am LOVING that Mad Dog!! looking near perfect, well done!

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

What can i say about this Jaguar stuff (Warhawk / Mad Dog)? Its brilliant!

The Kodiak look to much like the ugly MW4-imple, but the pure rendering is very good. Well done Mr.!

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

just a quick update been wroking on the LRM Racks all day mainly problem solveing but i'm really enjoying this textureing process for the Mad Dog.

FACEman Peck, on 27 January 2012 - 10:07 PM, said:

Pretty cool, just a little more square. Making the arm guns looking like MW4 Mercs would be best, in my opinion. Rougher looking, and armored up, that's cool.

thanks i see what your saying but i'm trying to stick to the classic battletech style, the lower arms where originaly bigger but i had reduced them to relate more to the Resculpted Mad Dog miniture.

[CG]Anastasius Focht, on 28 January 2012 - 12:38 AM, said:

Looks great, i love the cammo scheme

thanks took me a while to get the colours but i think the portray the smoke jags well

James McCraney, on 28 January 2012 - 12:58 AM, said:

MW4? Don't say that! I really didn't like that model, I prefer the older style, but you do have a good point about the arms. They could use some reinforcement around the base of the barrels. Great work though Kodiak, I can't wait to see more of the Masakari!

thanks i really want to do something with the Warhawk but for now ive put it to one side i have plans for this Mad Dog fairly big plans, iam hopeing to get an animation out of it, or a battle scene.

VoxeL, on 28 January 2012 - 02:05 AM, said:

Here is one of the best Kodiak's 3D-model of those that I saw:

its a nice model and render but please try not to post other peoples work. i created this thread becasue i want feedback from the community on the work i'm creating, i want to hear there suggestions and critisims so that i can build on the skills i have. but thanks for viewing.

CoffiNail, on 28 January 2012 - 06:58 AM, said:

That always is a damn *** sexy Kodiak.

I am LOVING that Mad Dog!! looking near perfect, well done!

thanks very much i thinking of getting some higher resolution renders done over the remainder of the weekend, you cant really see the fine detail on the texture at this low resolution.

The_Birdeater, on 28 January 2012 - 07:24 AM, said:

What can i say about this Jaguar stuff (Warhawk / Mad Dog)? Its brilliant!

The Kodiak look to much like the ugly MW4-imple, but the pure rendering is very good. Well done Mr.!

thanks alot the Warhawk was created purely becasue i love that machine ever since i fired those 4 ERPPC in mechwarrior 2 mercs annihilating a catapult and Summoner. again i have big plans for the Mad Dog i'm currently working out a battlescene or two.

i willl be picking up another 3D model as soon as the Mad Dogs texture is complete.

thanks for for the comments and viewing guys hope you all stay intrested in watching it develope i will update as often as possible

[Renegade581]

VoxeL, on 28 January 2012 - 02:05 AM, said:

Here is one of the best Kodiak's 3D-model of those that I saw:
Author: ~Punakettu (aka Vam).

Punakettu is Teslacoil on Mektek, not Vam.

[Waylandx]

Great Work!

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

thanks. quick update finished the arms a while ago. and started to block out the legs texture, hope you all enjoy it






the other images don't really allow you to see the smaller detail since they are scaled down when uploaded to imageshack, so i hope you guys enjoy this HD render (1920x1080)

(Click image to enlarge)



thanks for viewing and enjoy

[Alaric Wolf Kerensky]

These are pretty fantastic. The detail on that Kodiak is incredible. Someone had a lot of love and time.

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

finaly finished the primary texture for the mad dog, just got to add some minor details here and there, heres a quick image dump.






thanks for viewing and enjoy.

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

Wow! Simply amazing. A Jag Mech in Jag camo... Beautiful!
I really like the mist camo. That could be a Mad Dog of "The Mistweavers" (Beta Galaxy) of Clan Smoke Jaguar.
Nice. Well done, Sir!

Edit: Similar paintings to this Gargoyle of Clan Smoke Jaguar's Beta Galaxy.

Edited by The_Birdeater, 01 February 2012 - 12:14 PM.

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

The_Birdeater, on 01 February 2012 - 12:08 PM, said:

Wow! Simply amazing. A Jag Mech in Jag camo... Beautiful!
I really like the mist camo. That could be a Mad Dog of "The Mistweavers" (Beta Galaxy) of Clan Smoke Jaguar.
Nice. Well done, Sir!

Edit: Similar paintings to this Gargoyle of Clan Smoke Jaguar's Beta Galaxy.

thanks. looked extenssibly at the camo specs smoke jaguar section for some ideas on colour schemes. just adding in some minor details tonight which i'm hopeing will really make then whole mech and texture stand out

thanks for viewing ill try to keep this thread updated as often as possible

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

new update, not much done, been takeing a brake from the mech since i have worked on it all week pritty much none stop.

anyway started to add some minor details and started to render out some normal maps for the minor details, also gave the cockpit a better gradiant texture with a reflection map.

these normals are just a rough draft at the moment also sorry about the bad lighting on the second image.





constructive crtisism is welcome. hope you guys enjoy it.

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

turns out this version of 3ds max i'm using has sevral bugs, which appanretly are effecting my normal maps, so i decided to leave most of them out until i get a patch for 3ds max.




as always thanks for viewing, ill try to keep the thread updated as much as i can

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

so i have been soending the last couple of days rigging, poseing and test rendering a turn table, here are the results, a final render is on the way but will take some time



looking into aqquireing a better video editor, useing the windows live movie maker which imports the video slighltly darker then the original version.

as always thanks for viewing.

P.S video is in HD (1920x1080)

Edited by Kodiak Jorgensson, 10 February 2012 - 04:06 PM.

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

started something new while iam rendering the Mad Dog. this is just basic blocking out, so its likely to change alot before i get to unwwraping and textureing.



takeing alot of my reference form the orignal Executioner miniture and the resculpted version as well as the TRO images form Sarna

enjoy and thanks for viewing

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

just some porgess shots of the Executioner Prime.