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poor thom first getting kidnapped by a tripod and now eaten by a bug such bad luck lately

for those of you how have not read the book there was a poisonous gass called "black smoke" so i'm trying recreate how it was described in the book heres my first attempt [attachmentid=17166] i didn't quite get it the way i wanted its suppose to stay low to the ground and it moves fast so people cant outrun it it is also suppose to come out of a missile from a cannon on the tripod and then come out of the missile but i cant quite seem to get the effect i want black_smoke.zip

cool so your the guy that made that pic can you tell me how you the blood on the needle and claws? oh and the three claws on the sucker are not suppose to move they stab into the person to keep them from moving and then it sucks up the blood and it goes into one of the containers on the back of it

anyone els have an opinion?

ok i think its done but i want to know if theres anything els i should do [attachmentid=17100]

ok now that i have completed my tripod i'm moving on the the other machinery in this case the blood sucker [attachmentid=17092] i'm working on the arm now but i cant seem to come up with a good one and Suggestions?

i mite be able to rig it email is in my profile

ok i made a post for my movie [attachmentid=17090] i know it doesn't say war of the worlds cause i'm making this for a fan film competition and some one els managed to have war of the world before i could

ok heres a short animation of the tripod picking up thom here it is [attachmentid=17067] i know i didn't animate thom but i didn't think ti was nesasary to since the focus was mainly on the tripod comments pleas any one have any good stomping sounds that would go good when the tripod walks? tripodtest1.zip

i finally got around to completing my tripod and now here it is [attachmentid=17064] it has some new limbs and claws and heres a quick pic i made with Galoe [attachmentid=17065] what do you think?

ok it worked thanks

PWS?

is there a way i can copy a group of bones and past them on another area? i have made new arms on my tripod and i rigged one arm but i want to know if theres a way i can copy and past them to the left two times heres a screen cap [attachmentid=17049]

OMG.... thats awesome do it i want it looks like the modals in the new modal CD are alot better then one already out

well i'm still working on a design but its suppose to look alittle like squid with a big brain at the top of the head and it goes kinda into the back of the head too and it has two arms with three fingers but with no suction cups and a kind of a fleshy beak for a mouth and six tentacles that it uses to walk on

wow that was awesome think you can help me out on my martion?

yea you know already but it dosn't hert to remind but dont worry i can wait i have the paitence on a buta exept when it comes to rendering

man i would hate it if that was the thing that went bump in the night

its not vary good but atleast i got it working

ok i got it rigged with a rig similar the John's rig and i should have an animation out some time soon [attachmentid=16665] i'm also thinking about replacing the tentacles with arms similar to the legs and have claws on the end of them to make it look more menacing and more easier to animate and replace the heatray arm with one similar cause i just noticed that the geometry warps abit on the heatray arm

ok after the discussion on the "rig my tripod thread" i have decided to remodel the legs to make it taller and to make it easier to animate i also made it so the geometry wont warp when the rig moves to far here are some pics of what i have so far [attachmentid=16658] and heres a wire frame [attachmentid=16659] what do ya think? its not rigged yet i'll do that latter

yea give us one i could use better mechanical modeling knowledge to help make my tripod look more menacing i have seen a lot of mech modeling tutorials that do ok results but none have come close to you

that was brilliant

sweet thanks i'll be sure to get that when i get home

ok cool i can aford 100 bucks but now how do i upgrade it to the yeti?