3DArtNogales: Making of Dreadnought from Space Crusade game table.

Hello everyone.

When I was a child I played table game Space Crusade many times with my best friend Sergio and my cousin Paulino. I love this game and I like very much the biggest figure of the game, the Dreadnought.

It is a biped android with many weapons, very huge and very difficult to eliminate.

So, I decided to model and texture like an exercise to improve my modelling and texturing skills.

At the beggining I didn´t think anything about rigging it but when I have finished the foot and leg model I try to rig it and it worked well so I did a complete rig.

Finally, the last step will be an animation to test the rig.

Software that I´ve used:

- 3D Max 2010 to modelling and rigging

- UVLayout to unwrapping

- Mudbox 2010, Bodypaint and Photoshop CS5 to texturing.

Here there are some references that I´ve looked for.

I started doing a very simple concept of a left view by hand where we can see the central chassis, the leg with an inverse knee and the foot.

Then in photoshop I did a front view, a new left view and one of perspective with more detail. I introduced a biped of 180 cms in height to blockout the maximum size of the dreadnought.
I wanted the dreadnought was huge compared a man, then it is almost 4 meters.

I started modelling the foot. Here are some renders of the first version.

And the final version with a lot of detail. I changed the joint because in the first version it was a fixed joint with a very little movement, only in one axis. I did a change a more deformable joint that it allows me move or rotate it in any direction (we´ll see this in the rigging step) and I added four hinges for more detail, I will rig it with IK´s.

After the feet, I modeled the leg. Here there are some first version renders of foot and leg together.

I did many changes in the legs in the final version and with the new joint foot-leg I got more movement. I´ve divide the leg in three parts with an inverse knee to rig it with an IK.

I´ve used a sphere joint at the third part of the leg to joint the leg with the chassis.