Major Overhaul

I made some pretty dramatic changes to my SHIVU. I was very displeased with the limbs and their lack of interesting shapes. It just seemed far too normal. However, I did some concept drawing and redid the limbs as well as adding some decals. There still needs to be a lot of tweaking with everything but for now they are as they are. However, I am very satisfied with the results.
I also added some basic feet and am also pleased with those. I think that this project is really coming together even better than I thought that it would. I have not done any dramatic lighting work or done anything that will make it look realistic at the moment. Have a look! :)

Budapest and Skype and WAAIIITTTIIINNGGGG

I'm starting to lose my mind. I can't think of anything.... well, I can think of one think, Budapest. I've never felt so anxious for anything in my life. I look forward to hearing a new language, living in our apartment, calling home to family members. It all seems so exciting!
The thing about going to a different country, especially to live, is that EVERYTHING is exciting. Going to the store to buy food becomes a test in speaking, listening, reading, and general cultural experiences. I've read some blogs about how people hate struggling to communicate but to me that's the whole fun of it. It gets so boring day in and day out mindlessly speaking, driving everywhere, and generally carrying out a relatively predictable exhistance.
Well, on another, lighter note I have still been working on my robot. It's going well but very slow. I worked for a couple hours today and that's pretty much it.
*sigh* well, I can't wait for Budapest and that's that.

2 Weeks and a Robot

As of next Wednesday Val and I have 2 weeks until we leave for Budapest. There's still a couple of things left to do before we leave but it's hard to get yourself to do anything when you know that you're leaving so soon. I pretty much just want to sit around dreaming of Budapest. However, this wouldn't be the best of ideas so I push on... kind of. I slack of sometimes and other times do things that I shouldn't when I need to be cleaning and packing. One of those things is doing CGI. Not that it's unimportant but there are things which have a higher priority at this point in time. Oh well, this is what I've been working on. It's called the S.H.I.V.U. bot.

Simulated
Human
IntraVenous
Unit

"Judge Us Not Equally Abraham"

This weekend Val and I went up to Denver for her cousins wedding. That isn't the point of this post. That'll be soon enough.... Aaaaannyways, Val and I decided to rent an Audio book from this place called Aardvark Audio books. We had our hearts set on Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and so we rented it. What an amazing book! All I can say is that this book is ridiculously good but very, very dark. The book starts out slow but give it a chance. It takes about 4 chapters before there's any real vampires but after that it takes off!

We were a little apprehensive because Val's dad and step mom said that another of the author's works, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, was a little too heavy on the Pride and Prejudice and not enough on the zombies. I'm glad that that wasn't the case with this book. The details of his actual life and the vampire aspects are woven together to the point that you start wondering if this book might actually be real! It reveals dark aspects of Abraham Lincoln's life, both fictional and non, and does a great job at story telling. Great read if you're into zombies or even horror. :D

The Woman Robot Saga

I'm very slowly building my robot and I even have a scene planned. She's going to be pulling herself away from the wall that she is plugged into. I'm gonna edit in some steam for effect. I'll also build a scene based off of the Hungarian movie "Kontroll". It has these awesome gritty scenes and there was one particular one that I liked. It'll be pretty cool. The torso is going to be tricky and I'm going to have to look at a lot of reference photos for the different parts.

I like the green glow :D. If anyone wants to leave feedback I would love it!

Nice dynamic angle :D

Side view.

Seriously! If anyone has any ideas or critiques let me know. I'm always looking for input!

Woman's Head: The Robot

This is something I made based off of the robotic woman in Starcraft 2. I'm going to work on it a lot more but this is a good start. I also haven't made it so that the parts are interacting together with the light.

Woman's Head: Part 2

Here's the next part of the woman I'm making. I'm not sure what I'll do next and I never learned how to do hair so we'll see how that goes. I'll probably do skin textures and stuff like that. This will be my first time doing this. :D

3 quarters view.

Distant side view.

Front view.