https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=3725
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P4luvr
Friday, 09 December 2011, 04:17 AM

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I actually used a Poser male character!  It is a first for me.  I built this entire suit of armor and turned the P4 male character into the Transformer Pretender Classics Grimlock!  I haven't quite finished it yet and it's still very rough.  Once I get it completely built, I can then go back and start tweaking it over a long period of time until it looks right.

 [img]http://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/6088/render_1.jpg[/img]


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ahjah
Friday, 09 December 2011, 01:03 PM

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:thumb:  :thumb:  :thumb:  :clap:


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tda42
Friday, 09 December 2011, 01:51 PM

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That is cool!  :D  :clap:  :clap:  :thumb:


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Tormie
Friday, 09 December 2011, 02:32 PM

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:shocked!: This is seriously cool !!!  :shocked!:  :shocked!: :thanks:  :yeah:  :yeah:  :yeah: !!! I really really like it :hurrah:


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Chromium
Friday, 09 December 2011, 05:40 PM

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Wow, great work, the proportions are good, and he looks the part.

The Poser male characters are pretty well done. I like P6 James best, but he does not have much, although the old P3 Dork,is growing on me (hey I only just moved up from P2 Default Guy), I never got into the P1 Zombie male/female.

Would like to see more of him (side, and back views please - but that's just me).


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P4luvr
Saturday, 10 December 2011, 03:41 AM

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Thanks for the comments, everyone.  I didn't post any side or back views because the back isn't done yet!  Hopefully, I will have enough of the back done in a few days to post some other views. :cool:


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GrouchoCaesar
Monday, 12 December 2011, 01:38 AM

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...but what if he has to pee?


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P4luvr
Monday, 12 December 2011, 03:58 AM

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He doesn't.  He's a Pretender.  Although I'm not sure if they are cyborgs or entirely artificial.  We need a Transformer expert on here. :lmao:


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A_C_C
Monday, 12 December 2011, 10:33 AM

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[quote user="P4luvr" post="43401"]He doesn't.  He's a Pretender.  Although I'm not sure if they are cyborgs or entirely artificial.  We need a Transformer expert on here. :lmao:[/quote]

You called? :p

And if I remember it well, Pretenders are like the Terminator, the organic part is skin-deep... what led to some embarrasing situations in the old Transformers comic :D


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tda42
Monday, 12 December 2011, 01:56 PM

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Yah, as in hydraulic leaks.  :D


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P4luvr
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 03:50 AM

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So, they're like Terminator.  That's interesting!  Thanks for the info A_C_C.  Here's another view rendered in Blender with ambient occlusion.  I didn't make as much progress as I wanted to this weekend--too many Christmas parties. :D 

 [img]http://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/6088/grimlock_rear_shell.jpg[/img]


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ahjah
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 11:44 AM

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:D Here you can see the solution. He's got a build in camping toilet  :lmao: 
Looks very good so far :thumb:


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Chromium
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 11:17 PM

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Thanks for the view.

That's some good work with the suit.


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Tormie
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 12:18 AM

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:clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :yeah:  :yeah:  :yeah:  :thumb:


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A_C_C
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 11:33 AM

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[quote user="P4luvr" post="43407"]So, they're like Terminator.  That's interesting!  Thanks for the info A_C_C.  Here's another view rendered in Blender with ambient occlusion.  I didn't make as much progress as I wanted to this weekend--too many Christmas parties. :D 

 [img]http://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/6088/grimlock_rear_shell.jpg[/img][/quote]

It looks well. Now, don't stretch the Terminator analogy too far. I mostly know the Pretenders from some old Marvel comics, and their apparitions in one of the Japanese Transformers cartoon series (Masterforce). In MArvel they were like I have said, like the organic covering in Terminator, and shrinking devices to fit inside, tehy removed the armors and looked like normal humans. In the JApanese cartoon, it was handled more like the Power Rangers (or Super Sentai, if you prefer the original version) transform, with the added thing taht the Pretenders in Japanese continuity are all Headmasters (meaning that once that they are in robot mode, they are still human size, and transform into the head of the Transformer).


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P4luvr
Monday, 19 December 2011, 04:18 AM

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Here is another view of the back.  Most of what I have done here can't really be seen from this view.  It mostly involved getting the front and back half of the shell to fit together.

 [img]http://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/6088/grimlock_back_view.jpg[/img]


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P4luvr
Monday, 19 December 2011, 04:41 AM

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I'm almost done with this, but I ran into a few problems.  My computer is too slow to handle sculpt mode at even two or three levels of multires so I can't finish the shoulder piece or the hands the way I want.  Also, his gun is black so I can't see it in the reference pictures good enough to model it.  But I'm pretty much finished with this and I'm working on some other projects.  Hope you like this view. :) 

 [img]http://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/6088/render_3.jpg[/img]


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Chromium
Monday, 19 December 2011, 02:36 PM

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Thanks for all the views.

He looks great in this last shot.

(Old slow computer - tell me about it, I am still trying to optimise ,my little laptop).


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GrouchoCaesar
Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 07:40 PM

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Ok... but what happens when he flushes?


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P4luvr
Tuesday, 27 December 2011, 04:44 AM

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I just realized I've done nothing at all on materials!  I have the Blender default material on it with just the colors changed.  I've been experimenting with a weathered metal material but I am not satisfied with the result.  If anyone has any ideas for a weathered metal material let me know.  I'm looking for a shiny, but battle-damaged look.  I've made some changes and I found a better reference picture of one of the weapons and should be ready to update soon.


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Tormie
Tuesday, 27 December 2011, 11:02 AM

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I would prefere a color scheme with plastic and latex, just as a toy. Anyway if you release it, there will be people that will make some custom colors for you :D


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tda42
Tuesday, 27 December 2011, 11:55 AM

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Need to come up with a map concept for his face so it won't look like dork and make it more robot like. The Borg! :ninja:


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P4luvr
Wednesday, 28 December 2011, 04:16 AM

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I might try a plastic material from the Poser library to see how it looks.  @tda42, he doesn't look like Dork anymore, but I don't want to give too much away.  You'll just have to wait and see. :D


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P4luvr
Thursday, 29 December 2011, 04:39 AM

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I finished the weapons thanks to excellent reference pictures found on unicron.us.  I am done with the pre-tweaking stage.  Now I'll have to spend time going through Blender tutorials to get better at modelling and then maybe I'll come back and finish this off.  I replaced P4 man with Mr. wrinkly forehead James.  I just love the fearsome facial expression on him!  Hope you like this one.

 [img]http://www.posetteforever.com/files/posted_images/6088/grimlock_with_weapons.jpg[/img]


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Chromium
Thursday, 29 December 2011, 07:36 PM

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Scary dude...


