…but 3Dprint.com did a story about my robot 
That’s awesome!
All I can say Paulius is HOT DARN ! ! !
Thanks! I really need to find time to make the final photoshoot… I hope when the summer is over to have more time
DANG !
Even if Spielberg doesn’t call,
It might yet fit in with Skynet[;)]
I’m only just starting out learning Solid Works.
What 3D modeling software do you use?
3DsMax. It’s great for more flexible shapes. Not sure I would like to do this in SolidWorks. SolidWorks are great if you want to do more precise blueprints, because 3dsMax sucks anywhere where you want to enter dimentions or position things preciselly, but modelling such thing in SolidWorks might be too hard for me, because I’m still learning it.
Happy New Year everyone! I finally found time to get this project going again - there isn’t better time than a night of New Year celebration I hope to get a better camera soon and make a final photoshoot…
Here are some older picture about what happens when your 3D printer messes up your print and shifts half of a piece. Anyway, there is no thing that saw, glue and putty can’t fix :))
Painting the robot was a lot of fun. I’ve done these layers:
- Prime color
- Shadows / light surfaces
- Weathering details
- Chiping
- Rust
- Weathering sufraces
- Oil/dirt
I overdid the chipping, but that’s what happens when you’re doing it for the first time
I think your chipping is fine. Superb work there!
One of the goals of the project was to make the robot move in the nice, fluid way. A lot of work went into things that can not be shown by photos - coding and preparing the moves. To make it even more fun I had to redo some electronics - the robot stopped working after just sitting idle for half a year Anyway during the preparations I prepared a storyboards - my final animation was supposed to resemble the original movie:
I turned my flat into mini photo studio for a couple days
I’m not a photographer or filmaker - using a tripod is as far as that goes but I decided to try using a couple of spotlights and a smokemachine The smokemachine turned out to be harder than I thought. You basically have to know how to use it. Having a good camera dosn’t gurantee making good photos - the same for a smoke machine. Anyway, I needed it for making photos of the lasers, so it wasn’t completelly waster Oh, and I haven’t reallized that smoke from smokemachine raises straight up. You need cold smoke in order for it to sit on the ground, so I had to improvise that. 5 liter bottle filled with ice cubes served as cooler for smoke:
Paulius;
This makes me realize how much fun I would’ve had if I had been born forty years later than I was . Computer printing and knowledge . Holey Chit how dayum awesome ! ! T.B.
@T.B.: Fair enough. I agree that recent technologies simplify some processes, but in the end nothing can replace hard work, attention to detail and a lot of patience. In a way it’s easier, but at the same time it’s easier for everyone, so if you want to make something outstanding you still need to invest the same amount of time as in old times.
To celebrate the new Ghost In The Shell movie, I made a video about how awesome the tank in the old one was! I loved how it looks so much that I built a robot from scratch and I tried to match the motions as close as I could.
BTW, the robot in the new movie is not as cool, calm and menacing. Although the rest of the movie visually is amazing.
Hi.
Your work is fascinating. I have a simple 3D printer and have been trying to incorporate it into my modelbuilding in small areas, and its amazing to see how much you have been able to accomplish.
Pat