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[Red Shrike]

Gib Flea.

Edited by Timberwolf581, 17 September 2015 - 08:15 AM.

[Tarn Devereux]

Yay the Flea... oh how long i have waited for it, it is beautiful and yet still there is no end to the waiting....

[Mark Nicholson]

I just wanted to come back here and say thank you to all of you who commented on my artwork here.
It meant a lot to me, and now I'm going to work hard to not let you down.

[Sereglach]

Mark Nicholson, on 20 October 2015 - 06:15 PM, said:

I just wanted to come back here and say thank you to all of you who commented on my artwork here.
It meant a lot to me, and now I'm going to work hard to not let you down.

Just stumbled into this because of your post, today. If that's your artwork in the OP I must say it's amazing. Maybe one day that Flea will finally be in MWO.

[Racersky]

hey Mark (confracto) on the J-O-B!

lol I meant to say CONGRATS! LOL!

[Koniving]

confracto, on 14 September 2015 - 11:10 PM, said:

You manage to keep the scale. Even the professionals can't do that.

[Bishop Steiner]

Koniving, on 20 October 2015 - 07:25 PM, said:

You manage to keep the scale. Even the professionals can't do that.

Yeah, I retweaked your retweek of the CN9 to get it closer to the art... gonna mess with width one more time, but curious of your thoughts when done.

Would love to see confracto model the CN9 to the proportions of Alex's artwork.

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 20 October 2015 - 07:40 PM.

[Koniving]

(edit: It double quoted you.)

Bishop Steiner, on 20 October 2015 - 07:38 PM, said:

Yeah, I retweaked your retweek of the CN9 to get it closer to the art... gonna mess with width one more time, but curious of your thoughts when done.

No problem. I spent a whopping 15 seconds in actual tweaking with my tweak (and about 3 minutes or so doing actual comparisons before adjusting again, each adjustment being about 1 or 2 seconds long).

Other images on that CN9 rescale that might be of interest to you. Hunchback is untouched.

Spoiler

Rescale is on viewer's right both times. The dark brown is the two overlapping.

On a side note I've been working on a number of 'Mechs from scratch to match various art by people (including yourself, shimmering sword, some others). I'll show 'em as they get finished and I would like your opinions on them as well when I get there.

I figure after that I'll have enough parts and pieces to Frankenstein them into interesting re-envisions for random animation projects. Can't make a profit on making Battletech stuff, but I can sure as heck have fun doing it and showing what I wish a Battletech simulator was like. Right now I'm limiting myself to mechs that I have specific statements to their heights so I can see and set a baseline scale, even though I have the height set with a bar, the actual models are imitating the scale of the images they're from and as such if there's a person in there I've put in a human character in the same pose and position to use to set scale. Sometimes the scale is so very close. Sometimes the art is pretty far off from the stated sizes of the machines. Battlemasters, Blackjacks and Urbanmechs are what I'm presently working on. Rifleman and Jagermech are likely to be soon after.

Edited by Koniving, 21 October 2015 - 06:21 AM.

[The Great Unwashed]

Excellent work Congrats on the job, a wonderful development !

[Sparkymarkyp]

Aww the Flea...real Mwo "lost tech "

[Tennex]

a little boxier than i'd imagined

[confracto]

Tennex, on 21 October 2015 - 11:14 AM, said:

a little boxier than i'd imagined

I thought that as well once I'd blocked out the shapes and saw what it was going to look like in 3d.
The front profile isn't particularly interesting or flattering.
And I've no idea what the back is supposed to look like, I just tried to make it less boxy.

[CorranHorn]

Congrats on the job, your crab and flea look pretty awesome. Keep up the good work.

[DevilCrayon]

Mark Nicholson, on 20 October 2015 - 06:15 PM, said:

I just wanted to come back here and say thank you to all of you who commented on my artwork here.
It meant a lot to me, and now I'm going to work hard to not let you down.

Congratulations, Mark!

[Trynn Allen]

Very, Very Nice!


So when do we get the Firefly... Please....

[White Bear 84]

Amazing work

[WANTED]

Wow! I watched this previously when you started and it's great to see your hardwork paid off! Hope to see you on one of Tina' Vlogs soon )

Edited by WANTED, 21 October 2015 - 04:49 PM.

[Koniving]

confracto, on 14 September 2015 - 11:10 PM, said:

3ds max 2012

OBJ

STL

please let me know if you have any questions or problems with the files.

Thank you for giving the file! I've already started to rig this to a skeleton for animation.

[Sagedabluemage]

OOOOOO i want to make this one too XD Posting pics later XD

[Sagedabluemage]

confracto, on 14 September 2015 - 11:10 PM, said:

after the positive response from everyone with the Crab I made, and how much fun it was, I made the Flea. here's a link to the work in progress thread I have for it on polycount.



I'm also posting links again to the files, so people can also print fleas, and probably do other cool stuff with them.

3ds max 2012

OBJ

STL

please let me know if you have any questions or problems with the files.
tomorrow I'll post the time lapse I recorded of the whole process.

O just a quick note on the stl version of the file, It seems to have a lot of incomplete or just corrupted pieces, might want to check that file just in case its just me. The obj file i had no issues with i just converted it to stl in blender . The STL doesnt register well in my 3d printing program though.