Website update is live

Check out the revamped site, now with a Work in Progress (WIP) section, fresh graphics and simple UI!

http://jbmcbride.com/

Refurbishment of JBMcBride.com underway.

Here's an inital comparison between current and new, expect plenty of nicer graphics and design choices by Thursday!

Early iterations for my robot in 3dsmax

Heres a screenshot of my workspace, including the beginnings of a robot head+ref material.

And beginning to work on a torso, going to take a break from that and build some arms/legs

Inspirations, and getting the designs made.

Here's a mind-bending short from David Lance, looking at 'future forms of life' which blends mechanical with biological.
http://vimeo.com/46175751


Some awesome steampunk jewelery

A deviantart take on a chess robot 

This one reminds me of the japanese 'Gundam' style robots

A blog full of reference material

A bunch of robot inspired artworks 

Spookypop, steampunk inspired stuff 

^this

And some concepts for my robot- next task is to build it in 3DSmax, and get some storyboards nailed!

Here's some concept sketches for steampunk'y chess pieces

As you can see, I've had a few nice ideas for the lower ranked pieces, but found it hard to steampunkify the King/Queen, since their distinctive features are their height and top adornments- I don't want to push the concept too far incase it confuses viewers.

And here's how the look modelled and quickly rendered in 3DS Max.

There're 2 versions of the Bishop because I got to a point where I could've gone 2 ways with the design, I found the second design much more aesthetically pleasing, hence the unfinished look of the 'tubby' Bishop.

And here's a little animated flythrough.

STEAMPUNK CHESS ROBOTS!!!

Possibly the most exciting project proposition ever in the history of my education!

Check out a couple of my old steampunk'y sketches from last year, time to get inspired!

 Yes, one is upside down, blame blogger's buggy image uploader >.<