Hey guys,
I haven't posted much here, but I thought this would be a great place to post updates of two transformers that my friend and I are working on.
We are aiming to have these as portfolio models and get them in some sort of short film (Kind of like a reel to show off the models).
I am personally working on Wheelie from Transformers 2/3(?) and my friend Bryan is working on Iron Hide.

He will be posting some work tomorrow, but until then, here is what I started a few hours ago:
*screen grabs, no renders atm*



-Before Miki burnt his left eye. =D

CnC's are welcome!

Nice! Look forward to seeing more :-)

Heres a WIP on Ironhide, I started a bit later then Josh because I was working on another model when he started, but you can expect a lot more progress soon.

Bryan is awaiting approval from a mod to post.

I have the upper hand atm, as Bryan barely just started blocking out his model.

This is where I am at atm. Hope you guys like it.




Lots to do on the head still.

Small update. Deleted about 3 hours of work because I started to look to close to the small details and I lost sense of scale.

Small update. Deleted about 3 hours of work because I started to look to close to the small details and I lost sense of scale.

Been paying for that the last 12 hours of my work ;/
Looking good!

looking good so far

Oh that sucks Reborn!

Thanks Lonewolf! I'm glad you like it.



Update.

So I can't seem to get a render setup down so I'm going to use Zbrush to get fake "renders".





Next update will be when I have part of the body done.

I can't stand the 'Michael Bay' look of the newer transformers, but nobody can argue against the amount of technical effort and skill it takes to do what you are doing. In the end I can put aside my opinion on the style and say 'DAMN, that's a lot of work, skill and detail.' keep it up!

I know what you mean man. But on the other hand, after starting to model this little guy, I have a whole new appreciation for Transformers. It's amazing what the artists have created for these movies.
I plan to send the guy who created Wheelie an email and ask him for his input on the model/textures and what not when I finish this.


Update (Sorry for updating everyday :p)

Yea so I am not making close to as much progress as josh has been but heres a bit of an ironhide update

So I was out buying parts for my server which I will be rendering the CGI on. Reason its going to be my server is because it will have 24 gigs of ram... Blah I'll just show you guys a shot of the components (not including the 24 gigs of ram and 1k power source) and let you guys understand why:


Update (barely got to work today again):




Hope you guys enjoy the update.

that looks nothing like wheelie!


Haha Jk, coming along nicely. you should make Megan's leg so it has something to hump.

im lovin ur progress. cant wait to see more!

Haha, thanks guys!

Alright, major update.
P.S. I have been studying the model and noticed the arms are a bit small. The detail is all there, (apart of the symbols), but the arms need to be a bit longer. Will fix.
Enjoy:

looking good
and yea i know what u mean about the pc upgrade, been through that too cause of the transformer but now i need more memory cause i only got 12gb

=\

So after a longish break, I got back to work on this. I just had so much to do in my life that I couldn't get to work on this.
Here are a few update screen shots: (Some details aren't coming up in the screenys)



Follow me on twitter for every day updates on my modeling (I'm new to the whole Twitter thing):
http://twitter.com/#!/Josh_Dina

Enjoy!

Nice work so far.
Yeah you DEFINITELY need a decent render setup.

If you're going to take any more pics from zbrush, PLEASE press p. This orthopersp shots are killin me :P

Glad to see you're still working on this

Moar!!

@Electro; Thanks man! Yea, I do need to find a good one asap, but I'm also try to not spend to much time fiddling with new render setup's until I'm fully done the model.
(I stopped using Zbrush because of this, great to know how to fix it! Thanks! )
@Lonewolf: Thank you!!
p.s. Love ur new portfolio man!

Update (If you have twitter, please follow! http://twitter.com/#!/Josh_Dina)

close up:


Finding it hard to find references of his middle section even though I have Transformers 2 and 3 in 1080p pure bluray formats... So its going a little slow.
Anyways, Enjoy!

Working away here, maybe not as fast as summer time, but still. Enjoy guys/girls:

nice to see more of that

btw, go with some dark and abit shiny shader to make all the details visible

Yea man, I like seeing work done too.. :P

Hehe, I'm a slow poke atm.




Its getting there though!

Update:







Did some quick shots in zbrush, NO modelling was done in zbrush however. I did all my modelling 3ds max.