I like a lot of the machinery that members make out of Bryce primitives, but I haven't tried to model anything like that myself. I started out to make a simple insectoid robot and it turned into this. The legs are made of Bryce spheres, cones and lattice objects. The brain is from 3D Cafe. Hope you like it. Tjohn

Looks great to me! A great start for sure! And for the next one, why not use this as a base, and add more and more stuff! Thats usually how i work on my creatures.

Great insectoid, how does it feed?

On the thoughts of the innocent.

Lol, I like it! Definetly has a heebie-jeebie aspect to it.

Way cool, TJohn! :)

Hmmm, might make a good entry for the corelbot on the brycetalk chat room. We've been joking about making the corelbot some day.

One thing though, and its just cuz I happen to occasionally favor function over form... the pointy feet will sink into the sand a long ways due to the weight per square inch of surface area there. But if you take form over function, it looks like I would not want to be making that point in a dark alley.

A.S., Good... then I'm safe.

I'm always very fond of the 'brain in a jar' concept 8) Great robot.

I came up with a concept to explain this pic. It seemed to want one. THE PRICE OF IMMORTALITY, WAS THE LOSS OF OUR HUMANITY. After the Final War, only a few thousand humans were left alive in safe quarters deep underground, where the nuclear devastation had not been able to reach them; however, the Great Plague did find them, bringing their numbers even lower, and leaving them sterile. They happened to count among their numbers some of the greatest scientists and medical experts from before the War, and after attempts to clone themselves failed (the Plague had damaged their DNA so badly, the clones were monstrous, and lived only a short time), they began working toward ways to prolong their own lives. They were able to develop a process by which the human brain, with all its memories intact could be kept alive indefinately by being bathed in a recyclable solution, and by being interfaced with a small but powerful computer, could be placed in a robot unit capable of locomotion, the whole process leaving a new type of human existence possible...one that was in theory, a form of virtual immortality. One by one, the humans grew old and their brains were tranferred into the units. Radio communcation was possible between the robot units, and as the units were designed to protect the brains from extremes of temperature and radiation, and capable of self-repair and absorption of all radiation types to fuel their processes, one by one of what was left of humanity began to go to the Earth's surface to explore. What they found was a world so damaged, that the entire surface of the Earth was a hard-pan consistency. All life on the surface was gone. The atmosphere was dense with poisonous gasses, the oceans had evaporated and the moisture stayed in the lower atmosphere, conditions such that rain clouds couldn't even form. The average temperature at the surface was 300 degress Fahrenheit. While thousands of years passed, the robot-human hybrids began to hate their hellish existence, and by shutting down their life systems, were able to commit suicide of a sort, until at last there were only a few stubborn individuals who preferred any kind of life to none at all. But they lacked the one thing that makes human life worth living: Hope. I posted the pic in 1024 size in my gallery, and gave it the title of the short story treatment above, but without the story. Thanks for the kind comments. Tjohn

Great robot, great story, horrible existance. Catlin

What, not even the cockroaches survived? Excellent model and story. You might someday consider showing a brain-robot finding some scrap of its former human existence - newspaper, stuffed animal, photo etc. Lin

Oh Lin that would be just tooooo cruel.