Mad Cat / Timber Wolf - Final Animation

MD365 - Midterm Project, New England Institute of Art. Mad Cat aka Timber Wolf mech from Battletech/Mechwarrior. Modeled in 3ds Max 8, rendered with Mental Ray. Music credits are to DarkspARCS from battletech-movie.com/forums. Song is called Age of Destruction.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• battletech
• mechwarrior
• walk
• cycle
• particle
• effects
• mad
• cat
• timberwold
• 3d
• animation
• modeling

[EnvyMy75]

lol, I animated a Warhammer for my first assignment in Basic 3d Concepts class, and it was about the same quality animation, except there were other robots shooting back at him... PS, I'm not putting down your animation. I found the camera in this kind of annoying. It seemed to keep swinging around un-nesessarily. Ouch, and if your going to have a close up of the feet, you should make darn sure that they're touching the ground! It's a 60 ton robot, it should be sinking into the ground!

[XHashmeerX]

@EnvyMy75 @EnvyMy75

You're totally right about the feet. When I did any kind of 3D stuff, I enjoyed modeling much more than texturing, animating, lighting, etc.

Haven't touched 3ds since a few months after this video was posted. I'm not planning on going back and revisiting this any time soon, I'm a web developer : )

You should post up your stuff. I definitely looked at other people's models and videos for inspiration when I was doing this project.

[Logicfray]

very nice animation btw

[XHashmeerX]

@Logicfray

Thanks!

[Logicfray]

song is incorrect on video info. It is called "Moribund Mifune" by Don Davis search for it on youtube here and listen to about :34 seconds in. If someone told you they made this for you they lied sorry.

[XHashmeerX]

@Logicfray

Oh wow, you're right. That's definitely the song. I got it from a Mechwarrior enthusiast forum that was up for Creative Commons use as I remember it. I may have the title wrong though. "Age of Destruction" might be the name of a fanfilm. Eitherway, I do remember the music being credited to Darksparcs. That's a shame. So long ago, hard to find where to dig it back up

[ingwersengrady]

doesn't move with enough weight, also the hips needed to oscillate up and down somewhat. otherwise it looks pretty good.

[CmdrFoxDavion]

Looks great but it's the small details that make people go "ooh" and "ahhh" when you do animation, things such as toe movement when they walk, hip oscillation, physically expressing weight, as in the impact reaction to the torso when it steps on the ground, the slight curve limp you get from standing on one foot as you walk. I personally believe when you do 3D art it is important to invest in attending a traditional animation class as well, in fact it is more important. Your art however, nice.

[TheParodyPirate]

i hate mad cats...they overheat to easy even thought they are a well rounded attack and defense mec

[Flyspoon1]

I don't care if it's called a madcat or a timberwolf, I just call it awesom

[harkeill]

Bit of a torso twist when it was firing the LRMs would have been nice, but top job at any rate!

[crrider12564]

cool. great job

[JBnotthescotch]

I think you nee to keep the cabin horizontal while it walks

[ShadeAKAhayate]

-1. Sucks.

[isocryd]

@Kharnage1974 Timberwolf is what the clanners call them. Madcat is what innersphere call them. It is a clan mech, and there are more than two variations... There's also a PPC variation and a SRM variation. Plus the gauss variation doesn't have LRM racks...

[5567ism]

why is it wearing socks?