Saturday, October 26, 2013

Little update,... Just a few more mech related items to add:

Mechs in Snow,... Modo & Photoshop CS5

I'm loving my Large Wacom Tablet! It makes drawing in Photoshop a breeze.

For my general drawing and concept design I've been using SketchBook Pro. It's powerful and only cost $60 bucks. Check out the Free Trial.



I've also been working on some more realistic mech parts. My goal is to eventually rig and animate some mechs, but rigging this many moving parts is currently beyond my skills. In the meantime, I'm tweaking the models in order to make the physically work.

I kind of fell back on my knowledge of helicopter powertrain systems in order to add to the realism of the rigs. I'm going to have to adjust the lenth of the hydraulics and possibly the size and location of the mounts to allow for full range of motion,... 




More to follow,...