Ryoma45’s Weblog

In all honesty, i didn’t really like the look of the new omnitrix. For me what made the original ‘cool’ was the fact is was huge, chunky and looked alien. The first time i saw the promotional images for the new series, i wasn’t exactly amazed. After watching it more times, i’ve grown to like it. That’s not to say it brilliant, but i think the uniqueness of the original series was going to be hard to follow. That and i really can’t stand the whole Gwen and Kevin thing, he was the main rival other than Vilgax and now he doesn’t seem as tough or nuts. When i first modelled the original omnitrix, i was just learning to use 3ds Max, and it was the first thing i made by myself. To be honest with it, i’m very proud of it. It might not of been made the best way, but for me it does the job fine. After thinking about it for a while, i decided to try and model the new omnitrix. I was going to try and model it just through pictures, but after finding a ultimate omnitrix on eBay for just over £10, i figured it would be easier (that and i modelled the first one with the viewer omnitrix which helped greatly).

Last time i did this i posted my final version on a Ben 10 fan forum to see what comments i could get to make changes and better the model. This also led to the photo appearing on YouTube a year or so later with some muppet in the comment section claiming it was his photo. So to make sure this time there is no confusion as to who made this (because there isn’t another 3D version of either on the internet still ) i took images as i’ve gone along and made it. Obviously i do not own the rights to Ben 10 nor the omnitrix as they were created by Man of Action and Cartoon Network, this is merely made as a fan of the show with a bit too much free time at work. 

While i’m still not 100% finished with the model (i still need to add the detail on the body, dial and strap) i feel that it has come out well so far. I changed the inside dial to a transparent layer to allow for a light to shine out, but other than that i just need to add some bump maps to the whole thing. I have also done some test animation to see how everything works, which again needs a little attention. this was also before i changed the dial and added the strap. I just wanted to try out a few things.

The next thing to do is finally get my blue/green screen up to start mucking around a bit. Oh and to finish another model.