More 3D comic work from PJC- POPBOT WIP

[patrick_j_clarke]

I must love robots. Well, yeah, I do, I do love robots.

 

and comics...

 

so, now I'm working on bringing Ashley Wood's Popbot to 3D life. Popbot is a character from the IDW comic by the same name.

 

Still working on the IK and materials (hmm, the OSX version doesn't do weathering right) but it's to a point I'd like to share:

 

my version:

 

 

Ashleys version:

 

Let me know what you think so far!

 

- patrick j. clarke

[starwarsguy]

Looks good so far! Keep going. What is the comic about? I've never seen it...

[entity]

pertty RoBoT! Very stylistic. That is definately comicbook style there. What do you plan on doing with this character?

[John Bigboote]

How cool! Are you going to try toon rendering him?

[Paul Forwood]

Really, really coool!

 

I'm watching.

[hypnomike]

Great looking robot.

[patrick_j_clarke]

My original plan was to render some pin-ups for the comic book, but there has been some interest in animating him, so....

 

As far as the final style, I render out a raytraced version, and then render out a black and white toon line version, add some hand inking and call it done.

 

Much like this:

 

 

- pjc

[hypnomike]

WOW! Great work!

 

Brilliant idea to merge raytraced, toon and hand inking, works really well.

[turbokitty77]

One word for you.

AWESOME!

[patrick_j_clarke]

Thank ya much!

 

I have had good response from this style, but for some reason, I still think 3D scares the comic companies, they seem hesitant...

 

Props to Steve Niles (author of FUSED, 30 Days of Night, etc.) for running my pin-ups in his books.

 

- pjc