Hi PaQ. Here is the solid form. I don't think there's a solution for this right now in MoI. So I used Rhino's Patch tool to make the surfaces. I hope you don't mind :)

jonah

Hello Danny and Pilou !
Thanks to taking of you time :)

Well so far I had nothing better than Danny.
I think a have tried every combo of sweep and network, with many in between curves test ... but I didn't think about your version Pilou. The result was good enough for me.

That's said I give up and I've burned one of my save credit in rhino (only 3 left :P).
Looks like the patch command give a nice result for this kind of surface ... (something to add in my wish list :o))



I was thinking that patch and network were somehow the same, but I was wrong :P

Voila.

Thanks for you help again !



(Having a lot of fun with Moi as usuall ...)

>> Hi PaQ. Here is the solid form. I don't think there's a solution for this right now in MoI. So I used Rhino's Patch tool to make the surfaces. I hope you don't mind :)

Noooo I've burned a credit for nothing :P

Thanks a lot Jonah anyway !!!!!

maybe there is a little trick, waiting the Michael answer ;)

Hi PaQ, if you have something like that all joined together before filleting, you can use the edge filleter to do it, it will create a kind of star fill in that area, like this:



But if you are modeling at a kind of lower level than that surface by surface, it will be a lot harder to get it done. Really it needs a Patch tool to do it well.

Patch is a lot different than Network, what Patch does is start by fitting a plane (that has many interior points in it, not just 4 corner points) through the curves, then starts pulling those points up and down from the plane to morph the plane into passing through the curves.

I would definitely like to add this into MoI in the future, but it is just a pretty finicky thing to make work well.

For now if you had to stay totally inside of MoI the way that Pilou shows of dividing things into 4-sided regions is pretty much the way that you would have to do it now.

- Michael

By the way your model is looking fantastic already!

- Michael

Thanks Michael for the my daily lesson :)

and a little update :)

Complex thing :)
Maybe it's not enough metallic in the render?
http://www.tyreking.co.nz/CRAZY_Chrome.jpg

Hi PaQ - wow that is looking great! Lots of interesting details in there.

Is this whole thing just one articulated finger of the final robot? Or is that more like a whole arm of it?

- Michael

it's just a finger, and the final image will be just 3 fingers (claws) in fact =)

Thanks for you comments.

Here's an update ...


I really like the dynamic this motion blur is giving, however I get some friends negative feedback. Indeed I'm losing
a lot of the model details ... I will probably give an other try later.


And a dark version (still in rendering) ... looks cool like that, I think I'll keep this version for now ...
Still have some typo work to do on it, and I have to work on the background a little bit.

Cheers.

i like the motion blur! Looks vicious!!!

I want one as hedge trimmer! :)

Wow, I really like that last render - nyce!

-Will

Thanks a lot guys :)

Mostly finished ... (still want to compose a motion blured layer over it, not sure how to do it to have a nice effect without washing the details to much).

The next fashion gadget :)

I really like that last render.

Is this the new Ginsu Drive I've been hearing about? "But wait, there's more! Stays razor sharp after shredding Gigabytes of data."

Ed

Nice Work PaQ!
jonah

Wow, that is fantastic, nice atmosphere and presentation too!

I get it now - it's not just a nasty bladed robot, it's a Raptor robot!

Is this going into a magazine?

- Michael

Thanks everyone !

>> Is this going into a magazine?

I don't know exactly, maybe wallpapers ... there are no infos about that on the contest page.