Hi !
I continue to study rigging.
I 've practiced some recipes from the Blender 2.5 Animation cookbook and added a few ones (driven twisted spin).
Here is the result for humanoid rig.
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/33479
I wanted to practice a bit more before going ahead with the cheetah rig.
Any feedback welcome 
All is explained in the blend file.
Donāt forget to reload trusted if asked.
Enjoy !
Hi !
iāve updated the rig for the female character.
A good way to prepare for the cheetah rig and learn new skills.
All updates explained in the file.
The ābonesā work is finished, next is to focus on shape keys and facial rig.
Enjoy !
Have good blends !
Humanoid armature :
Auch! The link goes āerrorā!
And so: How did the āHumanoid armatureā work out?
Well, iāve been delogged, so i lost my text explaining the project.
Shortly :
Blender + Cycles
150 samples - WIP
Hi,
some updates on the house :
Sculpts made with the multires modifiers. Each stone is about 1 800 000 polys.
This one has simplify, because it makes millions of poly.
The stairs
I did a retopo and baked the AO + normals maps, then loaded them in Cycles.
Each stone is now around 200 polys.
I Worked on lightning and compositing.
Here a first render
and another one, with changes in lightning and compositing.
Still some details before final image (grass, sky ā¦).
Would ask a lot of questions, I donāt know where to start.
For example, the normal maps in cycles are not like in internal. Theyāre like soften and donāt deliver all the details like in internal. I feel like i sculpted for nothingā¦
May be itās my node set up.
Well, any advices or comments are appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
Hi !
Here some renders.
Still some details to fix before calling this done
A bit of compositing
Any critics and comments are welcome
Thanks for reading, hope you like it !
Hi, i have some blends on the grill that iād like to achieve for the end of the year.
Here i have another house, which needs some more shader work, the modeling is completed 90 %
Want to render in Cycles and the car will be the McLaren M4B high poly.
Full size : https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollito/25589934741/in/album-72157647473784841/lightbox/
Turntable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQHLvm0gr4
Flickr album : https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollito/albums/72157647473784841
The McLaren, modeled from Photos and in progress too.
Well, wishing to finish these 2 projects before 2017, as i work on my spare time on them and have some other blends i work on.
Like this Leica i modeled last week from photos too.
Still experimenting with the procedural metal and fabric.
The image on the fabric is uv mapped but the fiber is procedural.
More here : https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollito/albums/72157675944364906
Thanks for reading !
Hi,
some updates on the metal shaders.
I added a pointiness branch in the node setup and dammages edges.
All procedural.
And i setup the compositing and render layers.
I added some effects for fun and they are a little blt exagerated here.
The shader is a variation on the same nodes.
Still a wip.
Thanks for watching !
Loving the camera! What happened to the lady and cheetah?
Thanks !
Archerella and her pet will be back for a total remake of the shaders, using Cycles and Quixel.
Hello, iām back with the Mac Laren M4B project.
Images are better than words. Iād just say all is still under construction and is made 100% inside blender.
Nurbs, edge, curve, modifiers modeling + procedural shaders (principle and āclassic nodesā) + Cycles + Filmic + compositing.
I opted for a night ambiance, using a night HDRI.
Iām currently finishing the detail modeling of wheels mechanic + engine for the final render.
May i will rig it also.
Iāve updated some modeling, and proportions.
Made some wireframes screenshots.
Not easy because a lack of precise references.
I think everything is in place, i can now finish the last detailing pass.
Then willc come the front wheels mechanic part.
It wonāt be 100 % accurate, but i want something consistent and coherent and riggable mechanics.
Thanks for watching !
Hello, here some updates.
Here you see the overall modeling (still in progress) and the blocking of the engine.
The engine is BRM.
It is really rough blocking for now, putting things in place
And i started detail modeling for some parts, after applying modifiers (exept subsurf 
) .
Iāve also worked the shaders, all procedural andincluding some Principle BSDF ones, lighting + rendering.
16 square samples, 1 HDRI, filmic, denoiser + a bit of compositing.
Thanks for watching !
Hello
Iām having a bit of fun with rigging.
For now itās just preparation and studying constraints.
It was a bit struggling to get the piston inclined at 45Ā°, as all tutorial are aligned vertically or horizontally.
I had to find the right rotation for empties and also put the right paramemter on local (head piston).
Well, it finally works.
Iām not sure iāll use thepiston rig on the car, because it is not visible and hidden inside the engine.
Just for the challenge 
Aside that iāve set up the wheels rig.
All seems to work fine, i can finalize detail modeling of wheel mechanic now.
Piston Rig
Wheel rig
I took a little afternoon break with the mechanic to make this little house.
House modeling
Thaāts not really low poly + bevel modifier, from reference image.
I will leave it as it for now and finish the car.
Thanks for watching !
Youāre doing a nice job of it.
If Iām not mistaken your original roughing out of the engine was for a Cosworth V8 (I recognise that head design from my teen years) but now youāre using a BRM. Did they make variants of this car with different engines?
By the way, about your wheel rig: it generally looks good, but I noticed that it doesnāt appear model the movement of the anti-roll bar. You seem to have that moving as part of the lower wishbone, whereas in reality itās a torsion bar that is locked to the chassis in the middle, and twists at each end.
Hello,
wow ! i didnāt mentioned it and thought nobody would notice about the engines.
Youāre right, I started a cosworth, then realized it was a brm insideā¦ lol !!
Thatās why you see a coswroth at first.
Youāre probably right about the anti-roll bar and the rest.
Iām a noob in mechanics and doing it only with photos from internet, and i donāt know personnaly names, etc, and how it works in details.
I try my best, but i dont find clear explanation of the mechanism, like blueprint designs or something like that.
Photos from internet always hide some part of the stuff.
And thatās also the reason why it takes so long to finish, i wait to be sure of what i do to make a coherent mechanism, even if not 100 % accurate.
Also, i donāt have chassis, for the same reason, i didnāt find reference of it, and taking other models always bring problems in cascad.
Itās true that to have a chassis would help me to place pieces more accurately and join the wheel to the ābodyā of the car.
Again, iām not used in car in real life, and donāt even have one, and this is my first car modeling.
Any comments or help is welcome.
Thanks.
thatās my reference for the engine
Not easy to find the same model.
The car is a 1967 model, and during the season they change things on the car.
Then you donāt have 2 references that are identical.
These are the only reference i have, so it will be a simplified model.
I donāt want to make the inside.
