A huge robot!
Update 15/11/03 Completed to 98%
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  Thanks  
I want to thanks two friends of mine. They gave me all the pictures to model Daikengo in 3d. Without them this robot couldn't be realized!
Daigo, webmaster of Encirobopedia
DeFa, webmaster of Accp

 
The robot
 
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Name: Daikengo (Uchu majin Daikengo) Tori prod. for Toei Agency
Year: 1978
Authors: Unknown
Height: 120 meters!!! Finally we have a huge robot!!
Pilot: Prince Ryger (Liger Ouji)
Activation: The Spaceship turns into the robot.
Driving system: Traditional guide, levers, buttons, etc.
Material: Alien unknown material.
Weapons: Big Circle Sword Rotating and lots more.

Vehicles: The robot can turns into a spaceship. The Spaceship is composed of three different vehicles, a plane, a tank, a moon patrol.
Friends: Cleo , Anike ,Otoke, King Empel, Queen Elisa, Yuga, Sanson and Bryman.
Enemies: Lady Baracross, Roboleon, Minister Dulles, Magellan Gun, Skeleton Beast Robots.
Notes: Daikengo is an atypical robot, history and mecha design are strange. First of all Daikengo is an alien robot, all the plot take place in the space and on the Emperius planet. Daikengo is not a simple robot, on his planet he is considered a God.
Daikengo has two different personality, he is a god, but he is also a powerful evil machine. Actually the mask on his face is the main characteristic of the robot, when the mask is closed the robot is good. When the mask open, it shows a mouth with long vampire teeth, the evil counterpart of Daikengo.
Daikengo has two souls, the impassive face of the technology and the animal face of the fury. The complete name of Daikengo is in fact "Uchu Majin Daikengo", Majin means "God-Devil".


 
Technical notes
 
Techniques: Daikengo is the first robot I painted using a graphic pad!! Each detail, scratch, paneling has been painted directly on the 3d model using Deeppaint3d. The texture are about 200mb. I changed all the textures, I think the first version was too saturated, I also add more panels in the specular channel.
Daikengo is also the first robot "squared" of which I'm proud. The first attempt to create a "squared" robot was my model Daltanious, but I don't like it very much.

What lacks: I have to modify the robot to let him turns into a spaceship.
My biggest problems: Some of the joins of the robot are impossible to models correctly so I changed a few details. For example the shoulders are different from the original but this shoulders can rotate freely.

 
Trasformations
 
Daikengo can turns into a spaceship. My 3d model cannot turns into a spaceship. I have a lot of images of the metamorphose, so I want to modify the robots in the future to make it transformable. In this section you will find the pictures of the spaceship and of the three little vehicles in which the spaceship turns itself.


 
Gallery
 
Daikengo's mouth (15/11/03)
Finally the mouth of Daikengo is ready. Now I have all the parts I need to animate the transformation sequence of this robot. I used the endomorph of Lightwave to open and close the mouth smootly.
Dimensions (08/11/02)
Daikengo is 120 meters tall! 120 meters is about a building of 40 floors! In this pictures you can see Daikengo and MazingaZ side by side. Do you think that MazingaZ can win a match with Daikengo? I don't think!
NB: In this picture Daikengo has the old textures too much saturated.

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