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Cheers,

Kevin O'Neill designs some great characters.

There should be an animation of him rolling about later today. (Ro-Jaws, that is - not Kevin)

- Steve

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I sense a TV Burp moment coming up... :)

- Steve

OK, here's a coloured up version, once I've finalised the model I'll spend a bit more time on that side, with rust/oil stains etc.

I changed the back of the head to match an O'Neill pic from a Ro-Busters story, but it does tend to vary, and I'm not sure if I prefer it if it just curves down at the back.

Cheers,

Steve

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Cheers PVS,

I'm rendering up a colour one tonight with a bit of texture, I'll post it tomorrow.

- Steve

That'll be HDRI/Skylight type stuff, it's along the lines of what they do on films where they shoot a reflective sphere and grab the real lighting from the scene.

It's a quick way of looking something more real.

Cheers,

Steve

Hi,

yeah it was all done in 3DS Max - I'm just figuring out what might need to change when he's animated.

Like whether to make the area around the mouth a bit chunkier to give the teeth somewhere to go, whether he can look up, or just spin his head horizontally - how the arms work etc.

Cheers,

Steve

Cheers - of course it means, I'll have to do Old Red Eyes at some point as well...

Yep, the thing that wraps around his waist but stops before the door in his torso. (The red bits on this pic)

I haven't really got a clear picture of that from the side, but from what I can make out it should stop around where his arms hang down.

I vaguely remember them being used as jets in one story, but I'm not sure.

Going by this maybe the head should be a little more squat, and the gap around the 'lips' be a bit chunkier.

The arms seem to vary a bit, but I'm sure in one story they telescoped, which makes sense for getting round the pipes etc, so I'll probably stick with something along the lines of what I've done already (rigid upper arm, and then a telescopic/flexible lower arm)

Cheers,

Stevehttp://www.2000adonline.com/covers/scans/hires/106.jpg">

Yeah, I think you're right - maybe it could be a bit shorter as well.

Cheers,

Steve

To save hijacking Mike's 3D models thread, he spurred me on to do more work on a model I'd started after Christmas.

Anyway here it is so far (untextured) - I'm not sure about the back, particularly the neck, on some drawings it bends down into the body, and on others it's more like a boxy vent at the back of the head.

Also looking at ref material again, it looks like the side bits on his body should be a lot shorter - I can't remeber if they're jets or something?

Anyway, suggestions/crits welcome.

Cheers,

Steve

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Those Dean Ormston b/w pieces are great - it would be great to see him doing a strip in Tooth in that style.

- Steve

So many great bits to that, from Dredd keeping Fear at bay with his daystick, to Death hanging back, and Mortis catching a bullet.

- Steve

I can't think of many tips offhand, apart from calibrating it to match how hard you typically press.

Painter has a scratchpad thing for doing this, not sure about Photoshop, but I'm sure you can adjust the sensitivity in the Wacom control panel itself as well.

Cheers,

- Steve

I used to have an A3 and found that a bit of a stretch - A4 is OK, but I have an A5 and find that fine.

Didn't Frazer have a Cintiq? I seem to remember him asking me if I wanted to buy it off him once.

- Steve

To be honest, I think the only way that would be successful is anthology title that is already tied in to existing TV Shows, (realising I'm describing Look-In here)

If you were going to do that, I would guess the problem is finding enough shows to fit the bill as a  strip.

It was probably easier in the 80s where you had Universal churning out kid-friendly series, like the A-Team, BSG, Knight Rider etc.

- Steve