Here’s a few thing’s I’ve been working on the last 2 weeks.

Gun FX! We had to figure out how to make the armgun shoot. We tried a few ideas. Here’s a concept I made for the FX stuff.

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In physics simulations it’s very handy to make objects have a mass value based on their size. So for instance if you have one big and several small objects in a simulation(that are made of the same material) then the big object should be able to move and affect the smaller objects more then the other way around.

So we asked Sergey if he could write us a tool that works by checking the bounding box of the selected objects and gives them a mass value based on their size. And so he did! it didn’t take him long :)

Download the addon here:PhysicsTools.py

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Blended box mapping is a technique where you project images from 3 angles and blend them together based on the objects normals. Doing this in cycles was until recently only possible to do on static objects, but now we can use it on animated objects as well!

Download example file:  blended_box_map

This technique requires a very new build of blender after build revision 46076. That means newer then blender 2.63 stable. Or you can also use a recent tomato branch

Hope you guys find it useful

If you want to geek out and learn more about this technique then go here:

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/blended_box_mapping/blended_box_mapping.htm

Here’s the first shading pass on the QuadBot.

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Here’s the robot hand. Still not finished, but you can see where it’s going. The plan is to integrate this on a live hand.

Here’s a update on the robot for your viewing pleasure. It’s starting to take shape.