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Making Of 'Autobot'By Tams Tthfalussy

Web:Open Site Email:tottarie@freemail.hu

3ds Max, Photoshop, V-Ray

In this article I would like to show you what kind of methods I've used to create my picture 'Autobot'. I

always liked transformers, and the movie gave me a huge inspiration to build one. The car form of it is one of my

recent car models, a 1975 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. I used 3D Studio Max 9 and Vray for modeling and rendering,

the postworks were done with Photoshop.

Modeling

Because I wanted it to be able to

move and transform, I had to create bones forit too. Actually, I started with the bones - I

made a biped first and transformed it's parts

to have a robot shape skeleton.

The modeling process looked like this:

I modeled the robot's bodyparts after each

other from the head to to feet, and when one

part was finished, I looked for a section of the

car's body that would look good there, cut it

out and placed it on the robot like an armor,

and linked them to the biped bodypart.

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I always had to pay attention not to choose a section that is

too far from robot part on the car in order to be able to create the

transforming animation in the future. Not every armor parts are

from the car body, but I tried to use as much as I can

you can seethem darker on the pictures. For the whole robot (and the car too) I

used poly-modeling and turbosmooth.

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Modeling Wire 1

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Modeling Wire 2

Materials

The car paint is a 4 layer VrayBlend material. The base layer has a low glossiness reflection and the red

colour of the car with a fresnel type falloff texture, the second layer has black diffuse and a 1.0 glossiness fresnel

white reflection. The third layer is the little dirt and dust on the paint, which means it is a simple black diffuse

material with a dirt mask bitmap. The fourth layer is the damaged paint, so it has lightgrey diffuse and a lowglossiness reflection, and a bitmap mask. This mask was used also at the VrayDisplacement map, to bevel the

damaged part a bit. There aren't unique maps for every red painted part on the bot, I made 6-7 different versions

and some have been used multiple times.

For the robot body I made 5 metal materials. These are chrome, dirty chrome, a slightly blue steel, copper

and a shiny black metal. The chrome is really simple, black diffuse, white reflection, and about 0.85 glossiness value.

The dirty chrome is the same, but just like the car paint, I added an extra black diffuse layer with a dirt mask using

VrayBlend. The blue steel is the main material of the robot's body. I used a dark grey with just a little blue (RGB 60-

60-70) for the diffuse, and a noise map with black and a lighter version of the diffuse color for the reflections.

Glossiness is 0,8. The copper material has brown diffuse (80-50-35) and reflect (130-90-75) 0,75 glossiness and a dirt

map applied just like the car paint. The shiny black is black diffuse, dark grey reflection and 0,8 glossiness.

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Lighting

For the lighting I used a Vray Dome light using a VrayHDRI texture. I wanted a little lighter area behind the

robot, so I put there a Spotlight lighting the background.

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Rendering

I used Adaptive QMC Image Sampler and Catmull-Rom AA filter. GI was also used, Irradiance Map (Medium

preset) for primary and Quasi-Monte Carlo for secondary bounces.

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Postworks

After some brightness, contrast and color correction I used the Burn and Dodge tool to improve some

details. Finally came the title and author's name and the picture was finished.

Thanks for reading the article! If you have any questions you may email me here:

tottarie@freemail.hu