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[Kilroy]

I'm a huge fan of the Battletech universe and I have been using it to practice my computer animation skills.






I've primarily been using Lightwave to create these but Blender and 3ds Max have also had minor roles in making them. Keep in mind that I use these videos as practice so they're not the best but they do allow me to improve over time.

Edited by Kilroy, 31 October 2011 - 07:40 PM.

[Lasershark]

I'd swear I'd seen an animation like this for Star Trek vs Star Wars vs Babylon 5 vs someone else.

There's a little sliding of the feet in Aquiline, but otherwise that one rocked. Love to see what happens after the dropship lands.

[TheDutchGuy]

Nice job! But i think certain mechs look a little "thin". But animation wise all looking good execpt for the falling down of the mechs.

[CoffiNail]

for fan made, and on spare time **** awesome! Never seen these youtube clips. Thanks for the share!

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

This Gargoyle on the second Video looks very good. Good Job!
Never seen it before...

[Kilroy]

Thanks guys. I'm currently working on another one at the moment. I'm doing my best to make sure the animation quality is better than the previous ones. In the meantime here is another battletech animation I did before the other two. It's longer and there are more mechs. I intentionally made it somewhat silly and unrealistic.

[Agent Cooper]

Make sure not to over-extend the stride of the "chicken-walkers", remember there is center of gravity and balance to maintain.

[Tempered]

Lol, I really love that last video you posted. Best of the lot.

[Kilroy]

I made a short one over the weekend. I am still working on two others at the moment. The first of the other two should be done in less than two weeks.

Edited by Kilroy, 21 November 2011 - 06:01 PM.

[Armored Yokai]

Amazing frogjedi4/killroy i have seen many of your animations before by any chance could you include a dragon from battletech but not from mechwarrior 2

Edited by Cementblade, 21 November 2011 - 06:14 PM.

[Kilroy]

Cementblade, on 21 November 2011 - 06:14 PM, said:

Amazing frogjedi4/killroy i have seen many of your animations before by any chance could you include a dragon from battletech but not from mechwarrior 2

Sure, I don't know if I'll end up including it in the next two but I will make the model for future videos!

[Armored Yokai]

Thanks and keep up the good work and hey if battletech animated came out again you could probably help make the enhanced imaging for battletech animated series 2 or helping complete the original
and also i heard they stopped doing battletech animated because of its high expensiveness

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

am i correct in assumeing the enviroment buildings are MW2 inspired? looking good so far

[Alistair Steiner]

Good stuff. I like the third one, cheesy though it may be (and in the best way possible). What was the big guy with the hammer? I was thinking some Atlas variant, but then he jump-jetted.

[Ra-ul]

Looks like Mechwarrior 2 on steroids I´m sure you put a lot of work into those animations and they bring back good old memories. Keep working on animations and environment, there´s still lots of room for improvement. But I admire your efforts and persistence.
In the last video I´ve seen improvements on animation and camera movement. You could use zoom and camera shake a bit more for action scenes. You might also close up a bit more on Mechs in some scenes where it´s not necessary to show them entirely. This also helps you save some time animating stuff which is not seen in certain shots.

Edited by GraySho, 23 November 2011 - 05:03 AM.

[phelanjkell]

Ian, how's classes going?

[Kilroy]

phelanjkell, on 23 November 2011 - 08:59 AM, said:

Ian, how's classes going?

Good but somewhat intense. I'm excelling at hard surfaces and doing just average at organics compared to the other students. We're currently learning Zbrush and have already covered Lightwave. However, we will not directly cover other modeling programs. I start animation in a month.

Any other projects going on with you?

Alistair Steiner, on 23 November 2011 - 12:35 AM, said:

Good stuff. I like the third one, cheesy though it may be (and in the best way possible). What was the big guy with the hammer? I was thinking some Atlas variant, but then he jump-jetted.

It was an Atlas variant that I made up. I wanted the whole video to be out right ridiculous and it looks like I some what succeeded.

[Epitaph]

I actually made this in my CAD class back in highschool. I have some more stuff buried around someplace.

[warpig07]

dude awesome work.

[Jredbaron96]

Very nice man. Very nice!