Saber Tiger on the prowl

After a long and grueling couple of weeks at work fighting inventory I have now finally gotten to work on the models for more than just a half an hour a night. The results: the Saber Tiger now has four legs and only needs some minor tweaking on the legs and body to finish them. After that it's on to the tail and head and then we have completed the Saber Tiger.

Anywho, without further adieu here are a couple of renders.

BEHOLD THE HIGHLY DETAILED SABER HEAD!

You may kiss the royal paw.

Well now it's off to bed before another night of paid work. I should be posting the next update this weekend (hopefully with a completed Saber).

Saber Tiger now with Lego arms (for a limited time)

The Saber now has a spine and little gimpy Lego stubs for arms. After observing the reference pictures I have it looks like the setup for the rest of the front legs is going to be very similar to the Mammoth's trunk, so modeling and getting the rest of it set up for rigging should go pretty fast.

Anywho here are some renders:

Proof that Saber Tiger has a spine

All we need now is a Sphinx head

Behold.....The elbow!

Almost ready to walk.

The next update should have complete legs (maybe 2, maybe 4 you'll have to wait and see).

Not dead, it Just feels that way!

Hey all, I had to take a lot longer hiatus than I was expecting due to work and problems with the Tops model (namely I wasn't pleased with how the head was turning out so I had to scrap it and restart the head a few times). I decided that i would go ahead and model the Saber Tiger first and complete the Tops soon after, giving my mind a chance to figure out the best way to redesign/ model the head. In the meantime here are the latest renders of the Saber Tiger body and a test placement on the Megazord.

Anywho I hope you enjoy your first glimpse of the two legged Daizyujin. I also now have a completion date for Megs (and that includes animation). The date is August 28th 2013. Kudos to anyone who can figure out what time I plan on uploading based on that date.

A new update should be up by weeks end.

'tis but a flesh wound

Headless but not helpless

"I've got no feeling in my toes!"

Half a leg to stand on

The completed tail

Hey all, we have a tail. This one took a while since I had to figure a couple of things out about this, namely whither to use the Megazord version of the tail that is narrower but fits in the front crevice, or the Triceratops one that is wide and stumpy but where the cannons have to nestle on top of the body. For now I have chosen the later option, but I still wanted it to nestle, so I may end up remodeling the main body frame.

If the head can't maneuver as the foot then I will definitely have to either remodel or narrow the tail. But, for now the tail can be considered (for all-intensive purposes) completed and ready to go.

Next up is the neck and head (and the firing chain horns).

Tri-Rex rolling out

Creepy or cute, you decide

Just a quick update all tank treads are attached and functional. I also did a new playblast to replace the ones that youtube couldn't process. The new video is at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbI1EaYHzHo&feature=youtu.be

you can expect the tail to be next after I figure out a couple of details, which thankfully shouldn't take nearly as long as figuring out previous parts on this model.

Well my bed is calling.

The Triceratops Rex is born

New breed of Dinosaur or genetics gone horribly wrong? you decide.

Here's looking at you.

Just a Quick update before I start sawing logs with the Sandman.  After nearly two weeks of working and learning I have managed to get working tank treads on the Tops (this is a lot trickier than one would think). I am uploading a few test animations for the tread rotation onto youtube and since I know that some people would be wanting a render of the Tri-Rex I figured I'd put a couple out there.

you should be able to see the vids on my youtube channel  http://www.youtube.com/user/moviefreaq  within half an hour of this posting. Next update I should have all the last two tank sections completed.

The Tops is almost ready to roll out

Tops puts his treads down...

...and up.

from the 3/4

The back Tank sections are almost complete. The biggest problem I have had is finding a way to get them to rotate around a curve and stay oriented and spaced. I have looked up and tried all kinds of tutorials, but have not found one that works on the scaled up model yet. I'm not out of options just yet though. I should have it figured out soon. Well, off to work I go.