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Post by malfunkshun on Dec 28, 2004 1:54:48 GMT
Modeled in 3DS Max, Roger Deans original design  and a drawing of my original Martian design  |
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Post by Bayne on Dec 28, 2004 2:01:34 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Nce work!
I bet that took a lot of time and effort!
I like your own design even better I think.
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Post by Rust on Dec 28, 2004 11:35:10 GMT
Yes. INDEED nice work here!  How about giving it a little texture?  I like them Dean-paintings, but I never quite liked those designs though. I think they remind a bit too much of a turkey, and they've got a weird ackward positure. I dunno... but kudos on your work here, my friend. Did you come up with the feet yourself? Can't see them in the pictures I've seen. |
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Post by Tripod on Dec 28, 2004 15:19:44 GMT
Nice!
I like your own version very much!
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Post by malfunkshun on Dec 28, 2004 16:50:57 GMT
here's a textured version set in an environment. i used Roger Deans book Magnetic Storm as a reference, there are detailed sketches of his martians there, including the feet.  |
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Post by malfunkshun on Dec 28, 2004 19:24:47 GMT
here is a rendering of my original Martian design. The feet are too big though, and I never designed the contrivance which connects the legs to the body. someday I'll finish it  |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Dec 28, 2004 19:35:38 GMT
Nice very nice....
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Post by krys666 on Dec 29, 2004 0:26:18 GMT
Brilliant! I like this "chunky" tripod look! It's different from the other, slimmer ones....
I wish I had a program like that!! (And that I knew how to use it!....)
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Post by Bayne on Dec 31, 2004 0:19:08 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]the colouration seems odd to me but a cool tripod nonetheless!
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Post by the Donal on Dec 31, 2004 2:07:11 GMT
Great work Malfunkshun - much respect for the patience and work involved in translating Roger Dean's designs. In your own work, you seem to have taken this design and evolved it for the better.
Using Occam's Razor, I don't think that the martians would have come up with something as complex as those tripods that Dean came up with, and I'm not sure that Herbert George would have thought of something so stylised.
However, I'm not knocking Messrs Dean- their work has made a lasting impression both in science fiction and in music artwork and videogames (Yes etc and Shadow of the Beast... a visionary indeed...
( I still often wonder...from EVERY fighting machine design I've seen, given their clumsiness and general inability in Earth's stronger gravitational force, HOW did they climb aboard?!)
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Post by malfunkshun on Dec 31, 2004 2:40:05 GMT
( I still often wonder...from EVERY fighting machine design I've seen, given their clumsiness and general inability in Earth's stronger gravitational force, HOW did they climb aboard?!) i WISH i still had those scans from magnetic storm. in deans version, the hood was able to lower itself to the ground by an intricate unfolding of the neck structure (notice the way it seems to be folded up when in full stance, with a series of joints connecting the several folded parts) and the martians supposedly entered the hood with the neck unfolded and the hood at ground level |
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Post by Phil on Dec 31, 2004 2:49:33 GMT
What can I say? Brilliant work.
In awe here!
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Post by Bayne on Dec 31, 2004 2:57:00 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I always found it odd that the Deans WotW pics were spread over two books. The folding neck feature I thought was always the best aspect of the design.
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Post by malfunkshun on Dec 31, 2004 3:04:50 GMT
i've never seen his 'views' book but i didn't realize the martian designs were published there too. i e-mailed Tim White, the artist who did several of the paintings, a couple of years ago and he refered me to magnetic storm
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Post by Tabou on Jan 13, 2005 2:37:33 GMT
Very nice pics..........i dabble in 3d art myself.
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Post by twistedrabbit on Jan 14, 2005 18:19:19 GMT
Very nice work.
I always wondered how the martians got up in their machines too...I figured maybe the metal tentacles from the tripods lifted them up and into the hood...something to that effect.
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Post by ArmoredTrackLayer on Jan 14, 2005 19:22:27 GMT
aye indeed I like your design better. I think the other one looks like bigbird with his flesh torn off.
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Post by malfunkshun on Jan 15, 2005 1:27:26 GMT
funny... i always prefered Deans design to any other that i've seen, including the Jeff Wayne martians. the Dean martians look a lot more menacing to me, and I like the beak-ish hood. also, the legs are definitely designed to be more mobile than the Wayne martians, even though i think they're really cool, I always thought that they would be kind of clumsy walking around with those long legs with no articulated joints. the Dean martians look like they could walk pretty well, with that 'knee' structure. i also like how the martian tentacles are hanging on the outside of the hood, and the overall technical complexity of the design i think is awesome.
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Post by maniacs on Jan 21, 2005 9:58:55 GMT
Its got a design which still looks good but alien in design. Its like moving towards an organic look without destroying the impression it is still a machine.
But I do like your own design even more.
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Post by paco417 on Jan 26, 2005 16:15:34 GMT
From what i remember at school there was a book that specialised in SCI FI artwork and this design (roger dean?) was shown, aparently from what i recall the design was offered to Jeff Wayne for the album and was turned down?
seen later on around late 1980's in the game Terrorpods. design is good but the game was a bit ropey!
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