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Here is a WIP of a transformable mech I am working on along with a little guy for scale.

I am slowly filling up my library of futuristic buildings to use in a large city set I am working on.  I plan to finish up the textures on this model and tweak the mental ray materials.  I also want to push the retrofit aspect a little further.

DOWNLOAD: Name Editor

Description: I needed more functionality than max’s built in batch rename tool offered, so I wrote my own renaming tool.  This tool offers search and replace, appending and trimming and numerical incrementing.

The renaming works on the objects you currently have selected.

Version: 2009-03-17

Compatability: Tested on 3ds Max 2008, 2009, 2010.

Installation: Download the script.  Drag the downloaded file from where you saved it into the 3ds Max viewport.  Go to Customize /  Customize UI and select the toolbars tab.  Change the category to  NameEditor.  Drag and drop the NameEditor tool to somewhere on your UI and a new button should appear.

Tool UI:

DOWNLOAD: Name Editor

I have a Nintendo DS homebrew program called colors that lets you paint on the DS using pressure sensitivity.  The interface is like a simplified version of Painter, and below is a result of a few hours work.  It is really convenient to take my tiny DS with me and doodle on the run.

Every so often I spend 30 minutes sketching random stuff.  Here’s a robot hunting party standing over their prey.

Haven’t worked on this in a while, but back in November of ’07 I added a mental ray skin to the head.

Starting this blog thing.  Hopefully add links to new art and scripts…