Aegis: Surfacing / Rigging 1

Had to rerig this as I flubbed the parenting and the transformation looked really off. Also working on some missing geometry as I hadn't taken some of this into account when building it. Most of the transform is a surprise in terms of how the engineers created this.

Aegis: Rifle 2

Seems to fit on the right binder ok. A few more detailed bits and it should be good to go.

Aegis: Beam Rifle 1

Started on the rifle. I recall these being easier than this one appears. Hopefully there aren't any real surprises in this one.

Aegis: Shield 3

I suppose mounting the shield on the binder is the anime normal? Probably good when transformed.

Aegis: Shield 2

It's getting close, but a lot of the detail just doesn't flow with the mesh for the shield itself. I'll go back and add more of the shield bits in, but some I suppose I'll map in as well.

Aegis: Shield 1

Finally getting to work on the shield stuffs. It's a nice departure from the X100 series sheild design in some ways.

Aegis: Binders

Finally got the side binders --for the most part. I think the rest of the the detail can be just mapped instead of modelled. So I'll go with what exists here now.

Aegis: Side Binder 1

These binders are huge! Looks like a little space ship next to the mobile suit. Would be neat to have a cockpit in them - but I'm not going to do that. Strangely complicated though.

Aegis: Legs 2

Making progress on legs and some of the arms again. More than a few areas need more detailing and better geometry setup, especially I think in the shoulder areas.

Aegis: Legs 1

Moving bits here and there for the legs based on the arms. They aren't exactly the same, however, so some changes to the geometry are being done. They are similar enough to avoid a lot of work. I feel like this rig is getting complicated.

Aegis: Arms 1

The holidays have been over for a while but I'm only now getting to this. I find it interesting how similarly the arms and legs are built, but I guess it's because of how symmetric the mobile armor is in the end. Still, I have lots of detail left to cover and some placeholders to get rid of.

Aegis: Waist Section 1

After the holidays I've finally been able to sit down on this again. But instead I'm looking at getting a better rig for burning through image processing and such. Anyway, it's kinda going.

Aegis: Body 3

It's not terribly difficult in terms of geometry, but to be honest, finding time nowadays to build this is actually rougher than I thought -- compared to what it used to be!! It's coming along but holidays and what-not are wearing away the time :D

Aegis: Body 1

Haven't stopped on this one. But does make me realize that there just isn't much time in daily life to do this, even if it's for a few minutes at a time. Still, I'm fascinated with the transform ability so I'm motivated by that.

Aegis: Head 2

Ok, I've actually done better sticking with this than I thought I would. The head so far is a wee bubbly and has some smoothing errors. Also missing some bits. Feels great to have made one again!

Aegis: Head 1

I recall being able to pump one of these things out seemingly almost every other month. I highly doubt I can do that now, but it would be fun to try. Here's to the start. I had forgotten most of the tools and shortcuts I used for making these so I don't think this will be a quick job. I wanted to make this one basically because the old Zeta-esque transformation is kind of boring, and many of the other mobile suit transformations are either obvious or not really tranformations. Aegis does a damn good job of making me scratch my head and ask "what went where??" It'll be fun to figure this one out. Here's to the start!