"Clash of Juggernauts" (robots MMC)

[Crusader]

Hi everybody, this is my entry for the MMC monthly community challenge at the trueSpace user site, united3dartists...

The theme was "Robots" and we were allowed to use old models, so I dug up my old vehicles and robots with a background story for the "clash"...

Background story: a century ago, robots were mass produced to serve humans and took over all hazardous work, now they are in need of dwindling resources and robots fight for it on new frontiers...

Setting: what I have in mind is a massive scene with mammoth mining robots harvesting resources and a host of support and protection bots protecting them and slugging it out while the behemoths labour away and repair bots fix them as they get damaged...

Used some old bots I made that I want to modify and use in the scene, the big one on the left is new, made of different parts from old robots I made... Didn't use any of my MAV series vehicles in this one though...

In the end, to fit better with the title, I positioned the mammoth robots where they rammed each other, while smaller attack robots shoot at each other around them... learned about using alpha mask for special effects like smoke, gun flashes and explosions in this one but need to learn more... Note the little blockman in the foreground to give some perspective to the size of the machines...

WIP thread with some close ups on the smaller bots can be seen here : http://united3dartists.com/forum/viewto ... 299#p10299

[Tenement]

Cool!

[Crusader]

tnx T, could have used more time but only had a couple of days to slap this together, even though it was a 3 week challenge I couldn't find the time to start it... glad u like it...

[gmd3d]

looks cool .. great work on it

[Crusader]

Thans Taranis... still learning to do special effects, those are just basic alpha map plains so everything is perfectly positioned for the camera angle, can't add another camera for another view and definitely can't animate the scene

[gmd3d]

Originally Posted by Crusader

Thans Taranis... still learning to do special effects, those are just basic alpha map plains so everything is perfectly positioned for the camera angle, can't add another camera for another view and definitely can't animate the scene

Animating is a area I want to get into some time

[Crusader]

me too, haven't done any animations yet, but signed up for an animation challenge to get me going

[gmd3d]

good look