KeyShot Toon Challenge W.I.P.

[DriesV]

Here's a non-Toon version. Just for the fun of it.
Now starting to think about the track...

Dries

[Chad Holton]

Looking good! Really like the metallic paint on the last images too. 

[DriesV]

Another metallic paint shot.

Dries

[DriesV]

I did some testing to simulate the dynamics of my avatar ball.
I tried it on a curved wheel...

It does require careful application/timing of multiple animations. Quite time consuming...
The other purpose of this test was to see if the avatar would look better on a rotating wheel than a beach ball.

Dries

[KeyShot]

Nice!

[TpwUK]

+1 for the rotating wheel Dries

Martin

[guest84672]

Ha - very cool.

[Speedster]

Gotta be a wheel!  Like a hamster.  Or a CG artist on a deadline!  What's scary is that they have "character"-  man, you have a winner here for a feature film!
Bill G

[DriesV]

Okay, I finally found a flexible approach (easy to adapt and configurable dimensions) to modeling the track and boobytrap sections. I'm now using subassemblies for the track sections, as well as for the boobytrap 'zones'.
The gray cut-up wheel is the base part from which I have saved out split bodies that serve as a template for the track and boobytrap sections. Quick 'n dirty, but I prefer this approach over top-down modeling to get things done as quickly as possible while still having easy to manage models. (Maybe it's me, but often me and in-context modelling in assemblies in SolidWorks don't get along too well...)

Here are some reults of initial testing.

btw, this video works better in loop.

Dries

[Arian Shamil]

Amazing work!!!!! It's really a super work! It's really nice!

[TpwUK]

Doody stuff Dries

[DriesV]

What's a doody??

I sniffed around on urban dictionary and it didn't smell too nice.

Dries

[TpwUK]

Sorry Dries ... Dudey gives my spell checker the burps - Dudie does too so it must be doody ... hmmmm that does now too  .... It means it looks cool 

Martin

[DriesV]

Sorry Dries ... Dudey gives my spell checker the burps - Dudie does too so it must be doody ... hmmmm that does now too  .... It means it looks cool 

Martin

Ah OK, thanks then!

Btw, I decided on a name for my animation.

***LEVEL 666***
Wheel of the Misfortunates

Dries

[PhilippeV8]

Misfortunates ... hmmz ... that's not a good title to try to win a contest ! 

But you're on a roll .. don't let me stop ya