So I’ve been silent for a while, haven’t I? Well, for a good reason: I’ve been busy with #MOCtober, a little something I’ve come up with.
Many artists during October take on the Inktober challenge, drawing in ink every day of October. This year I decided to do something similar, but with MOCs. I’ve already done a few mechas based off Ksenolog’s sketches, but this time around I decided to dedicate a whole month to translating his amazing works into digital 3D lego.
This thread is a full collection of my MOCtober entries.
Probably… but for now I try not to think about it. As fun as MOCtober was, it was also exhausting.
Here’s a fun story: I actually don’t have the model for #28 anymore. If you’ll look really close, you’ll see misplaced lime green piece on his left pauldron. I’ve discovered this discrepancy only on the final stages of photoshop post-processing.
So what I did is I opened the file in LDD, recolored the pieces and deleted everything but those pieces. And hit CTRL+S without thinking.
My intent was to avoid the long process of full-res rendering (I’ve been 1 day behind so at that day I did both #27 and #28, so at the end of the day I was tired and overworked since both models took roughly 4 to 6 hours to make), just render those two pieces and lay them over the already existing render. Some photoshop magic would make it a seamless replacement.
So one automatic keystroke have completely nullified my efforts. I can probably reproduce the model by having only this render, but I just… maybe later. Sigh.
All of these look very much like the originals, the shaping is amazing. Some complaints:
The gun in picture number 11 is a bit too short and the barrel is a bit too thick.
The orange in picture 14 should be replaced with black to look more like the picture, but those very well could be shadows because there are little bits of orange in the pic.
The gun in 28 needs to be higher to look like the picture, but the mocs don’t need to look like the pictures at all. Other than those complaints awesome work my good man.
You can notice that most, if not all, of my MOCtober bots have distorted proportion. Setbacks of translating the designs into digital LEGO.
It was my decision to add more orange to the model itself.
You know, I spent a good chunk of my time with this MOC trying to figure out the posing for this goshdarn gun. In the end, I decided to just change the handling whatsoever.
Oh, my, god. These are fantastic! The art is a great addition! You should try to make a verotech fighter (if you know what that is.) Keep up the good work :)!
