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Glass Spider Comparison

Sorry for getting all the ancient Galahad fans hopes up by calling the Glass Spider a Galahad haha. I tend to gravitate towards a mechs shorter/easier/cooler name when possible, I don't stick to one convention or another. (eg: Behemoth is cooler and easier said than Stone Rhino).

With my own described visual comparisons to the Rifleman in mind, and yours, now that we have the model of the mech readied for lineart generation, I thought it'd be fun to put it side by side with our Rifleman...

Galahad Concept Sketch

Time for another redesign. The Galahad / Glass Spider.

I think between the Rifleman we've got, the *cough* Rifleman IIC, and this, doing the Galahad seems a little silly when we can slap double gauss on the IIC. But here we are. Hopefully someone wanted this :)

I ran a mix of Rifleman, VMI Galahad, and a bit of the phoenix redesign into it. The result I think looks really sleek, for its lineage.

The King

Heavily filtered renders are making a return, and I wanted to burn your eyes this time :D
Projects are a little more slow burn right now so I'll try to do more special renders like this rather than just pumping out a quick 4 shot bundle and being done with it.

For those concerned, this hopefully shows the extra bit of neck the design has now.

Sculpt by Alan Blackwell.

Annihilator Concept Sketch

Phew. Sorry for last month having a big drought of content. Things can get away from me and "I'll post something tomorrow" quickly turns into "oh no that was 3 weeks ago".

I've also been holding back content per a bit of internal caution. Now it's a little more open that the ongoing Recognition Guide series will feature not just kickstarter mechs and il Clan era mechs, but additional oldschool redesigns too.
As much as 100 miniature redesigns covers a lot of intro and clan invasion t...

Mongoose 3D Renders

A few weirdos wanted to see the Mongoose, so I will oblige :P

There are still a decent number of mechs I haven't done these full render sets for, though I feel like it's starting to get a little stale for content. Has anyone's favorite mech been left out that you're waiting to see from the kickstarter?

I'll start focusing on more interesting/unique posts after these are wrapped up.

Like the Zeus I'm making this set public right away too, so feel free to share it around.

Zeus 3D Renders

Sorry for the low rate of content last month. I very much vegetated that one away after the rush of last year haha. Background work continues on some very cool things. I'm slowly rebuilding my work habits, though also looking into alternate hobbies/interests that I can monetize beside just art. Crypto mining and stock investing :)

Anyway, here's the Zeus renders several of you asked for!
This one is fully public from the get go so feel free to share the images around.

Atlast Lineart

Here's a piece of lineart I've been pretty excited to show off since it was finished a few days ago. The Atlas.

I picked something similar in pose and angle to the original Atlas lineart for a nice throwback. Alan Blackwell then rendered out the lines and did the first half or so of the line cleanup. I jumped back in for the final run to add all the extra detailing that we couldn't get into the 3D model.

I'm also showing the version without shading this time because I think that m...

Kingfisher Lineart

Here's another lineart piece done by Chris Lowrey that he wanted me to show off.

The Kingfisher. Ugly, fat, and that's about it :P

Centurion 3D Renders

Sorry for the long gap between content posts. Had a bigger holiday break than I usually would in the last several years, which was nice. But then my normal routine was broken and I've been taking a while to gas back up haha.

Here's the requested Centurion renders. Definitely another mech that looks a bit unflattering from above due to it's wide hips. I narrowed them a bit right before they went off to production, but they probably could have been pushed a little further.
Still, a nic...

Happy New Year

Thanks to everyone here for helping give me a relatively good year through 2020, despite how crazy things were and continue to be. Looking forward to pushing through another. Lets hope by the peak on con season our governments have stopped tripping over how to distribute vaccines and we can get out and meet at game stores and cons again. I want my GenCon.

For those I haven't delivered Elemental Tier sketches to yet from last month, a long Christmas trip got me away from my computer for ...

Banshee 3D Renders

Ok next most requested on the list, the Banshee.
This one should be a staple in IS assault forces when wave two hits.
Bristling with weapons, nothing too extravagant, and the second tallest mini of the kickstarter sitting between the Atlas and Executioner.

How many are looking forward to having IS assaults that bring the same imposing scale that the Clans got in wave one? It'll be a fair step up from the Battlemaster.

All Forces Assembled

No assembly required.

After seeing today's KS update use 4 month old renders to show "all of the mechs" I had to get these final renders made haha.

Feel free to share the IS group and Clan group renders, same as what the KS update had. Keep the all inclusive cramped shot and force packs shot for patron eyes :)

Attachments are in 4K resolution. Enjoy!

Atlas II Concept Sketch

Here's something interesting I can show off :)
CGL asked for a quick Atlas II redesign for book art needs, Battletech: Legends I believe now that it's been revealed. With all the recent use of 3D models for colorized book art they wanted to keep things consistent. So don't get any wrong ideas, this isn't for a miniature (though who knows in the future).

Not many have love for this design, but with our new Atlas design and the freedom to change this one up, there was plenty of room to...

Turkina 3D Renders

Turkina time.

More a matter of always forgetting in the moment rather than it being a hard task, I've finally slightly improved my render setup. Of course I really should move to a full beauty rig like what Chris has been doing for the turntables haha.
The ground plane grey now matches the skybox grey so there's no odd transition line, and I darkened the base hex to look more like the packaged mini.

Does it look better this way?

Lancelot 3D Renders

Here are the multi-angles on the Lancelot as requested.

Mongoose, Exterminator, Banshee, Zeus, Centurion, Trebuchet, and Enforcer are currently on the list for more renders. Which do you want to see the most of them?

Vapor Eagle Lineart

Here's a piece of lineart from Chris Lowrey, his first for the franchise. He wanted me to show it off to you guys to see. Loooot of lineart being done right now to finished off my teams part of kickstarter production.

I've got some other cool stuff I'm working on that I want to show, but not sure yet when I can post it here.

Enjoy the Vapor Eagle.

Clan Heavy Star

Throwing this up here because I'd forgotten to at the time of its completion. Thanks to those who pointed it out.

Panther 3D Sculpt

A few requested Panther renders so here these are. Dale Eadeh did the design and sculpting on this one. Just a few final 3D tweaks applied by me at the finish line.

Looks great in physical form too. Curious to see in the final production plastic how well the eye recessions are retained.

Feel free to share the close up shot if you want, though at least at this point all the group renders are on the crowdox page for people to see.

Spider 3D Renders +Prototype

Ok first up on the requested renders list, the Spider!

I think this is a good one to show off because more than usual critique landed, questioning if this really looked/felt "spider enough".
Of course I'm biased. I redesigned most of this one many years ago, and refreshed it again for the kickstarter. What I consider cuttable details, and how I interpret others, wont line up with everyone's preferences.
That said, I think this is one of those minis (much like the blackjack and cen...

Elemental Tier Sketches

The quick sketch reward at the Elemental Tier is back with 4 slots available for me to test the waters on how I'll be offering commissions again.
I'm considering if/how to expand to more elaborate commission offerings again, as at the end of my peak before full timing for Catalyst I was doing 90% paintings. But, I want to be sure I can handle those in my schedule first. So it's just simple sketches for now.

For now, I also wont allow Battletech mech redesigns to be requested this way...

Ostroc Process GIF

Here's a good gif to show my struggle with properly showing off the design process to you all. When I'm working on an area of a design I get really dialed in and most often work all the minute evolutions back to back in one spot rather than making passes on the entire design. This means if I'm not spamming the save button you jsut see whole areas pop in :D
The Ostroc design went pretty smothly too so it's even more boring haha.
To guarantee making a good progress gif I'd have to video r...

Ostroc Concept Sketch

You've been asking for it, a lot, so I worked this one out :)
The Ostscout redesigned 5 years ago. Ostol was 10 months ago. Now the Ostroc is here to complete the oddball trio of egg mechs.

Because at this point I had the other redesigns, I leaned far more on referencing those two for details rather than sticking as close to the old art as possible. Going for a cohesive final set. You'll find stuff like the Ostol lasers reused, and Ostscout detail references on the upper legs. I also...

Content Requests

Time for another round of polling the vocal of yee for content requests.
I've already got a few items I can assemble progress gifs for that I just need to get around to finalizing. But the common subject I want to know again is what mechs some of you want to see additional render angles from, as that's simple enough content to output.

I'm working fresh Battletech content, it never ends, but I'm not sure yet when I can post these new things, so it'll be a little dry on new stuff for a...

Ebon Jaguar 3D Turntable

This one looks so nice in turntable.

All ye who asked for rear shots rejoice.

Kingfisher 3D Turntable

Double Chonk.

Kodiak 3D Turntable

Unbearable.

Thug 3D Turntable

Straight thuggn.

Crockett 3D Turntable

Max Chonk.

Lancelot 3D Turntable

Time for a bunch of turntables.

Comstar Battle Level II

"Hello, your phone bill is overdue, prepare to die."