After watching The Iron Giant for the umpteenth time, and thinking as I always do about how much room they left for a sequel, I decided to mess with a 3D model of him. I looked around for one, there's a sketchup model around, but it's a bit off. I found wireframes and renders of a REALLY good one, which I'm using to help my topology as I make one of my own.
Here's tonight's progress, I don't know how often I'll work on this, but it was something fun to work on while my phone flashed.
Right now, the rest of his parts are in the shop.
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The toon shader in Blender isn't quite as configurable as I'd like, so the edges aren't precisely where I'd want them, but it gives a better sense of the movie model than a clay render I think.