See! I’ve plopped the colours onto the render rig and it’s not too shabby! Need to tweak it some more, slap it in a background maybe? and sort out the really off specular and reflection mix going on over the top. Look at thoose eyes for example - WAY to shiny right now. Why! It looks almost like T2 when hes transforming. Chrome dancer. I’m beginning to wish I hadn’t made these blog pages bright pink. Kinda clashes with everything!

Oh shit colours! Coming at ya like Cleopatra! The man Coaster, and maGrin have bin lookin this right over for the past hour or two like a map, tweaking like a maths genius tweaks the numbers, popping then all in the right place. This image is a Photoshop play around, messing with the orignial image. It’s probably well overcooked, but thats the way I like it, at least at the moment - probably going to make me sick up a bit tommorow in my mouth.

Now I need to connect these colours back into the shading tree so I can render out angles until my heart is content. Sadly, I expect about a yonk load of posts of this in different angles while I try to get the spec right. Still not convinced by the eyes yet, but they are on the right motorway.

Check out this rubs image!I’m building a lovely sponge cake filled with lovely layers ready to bake in the photoshop oven. Theres the colour layer, the final gather layer, a pinch of ambient occlusion and every magpies favourite jam filling the specular layer!! I wish it was tastier. Really i’ve made a lovely unbalanced heap of dough, not pleasing my little peepers at all, and generaly just making me sad as I realize how long it’s probably going to take me to balance all these ingedients out. At least this means it spits the right renders out! A tiny step!

Amazing! Both eyes are modeled out and rigged for basic movement! You can see the way i’ve rigged a three pronged base for the eye, mounted on the big plastic mount board behind the head! It all works, you can barely see it when all the other geoms turned on, but I don’t care! I know it’s there and i’m anal enough to care! You don’t have to though.

Oh lordy! Now I can finaly go back to trying to sort out some decent colours for this nightmare! Heres pretty much the same shot as before, rendered better. Getting there??? Please be finished soon!

I’m one day going to get some animations up! Need to show this thing in action!