Haniwa monster Magmer 
The second enemy of Jeeg

Update 22/02/02 Completed to 99%

Pictures of the model

click this picture for the 1024*768 version

Name: Haniwa monster Magmer (from Koutetsu Jeeg)
Pilot: Living robot. There isn't a pilot
Material: Magmer is a robot of the Yamatai Empire and for this reason is external armour is made in stone. The interior is metallic and full of tubes and gears.
Weapons: Using the right arm he can throws flames or little balls of fire. If he loose his head can see using the little head on the waist
Notes: Magmer is the second enemy of Steel Jeeg. He has all the skill of the other Haniba monster, actually he can walk into stone and disappear.
I always love his big red horns and his skull face. I still remember when he appear from underground with Hiroshi's sister Mayumi in his hand.


Technical notes:
Techniques: The body is the same of MazingaZ except for the shoulders that are larger and the legs that are longer but without foot. The flame-thrower is a simple prism but with tiny rounded edge to improve specular effect.
The skull was modeled using metanurbs
What lacks: Uvmapping for the textures.
My biggest problems: My biggest problems was achieve a realistic stone texture for the body. I changed the bitmap so many times and I'm not sure that my job is finished. Another problem was use the correct mapping method (spherical, cylindrical, planar) for every part of the body.

Gallery:
Flame-thrower
The right arm of Magmer is a huge flame-thrower. In this scene Magmer turn on his arm to roast some innocent people around him. I used the hypervoxel of Lightwave3d to simulate fire. Hypervoxel and particlefx are very simple and funny to use! Lightwave is the best program for 3d, I'm sure about this!

Ready to attack!2 1024*768
Magmer appear from the underground and now is ready to fight Jeeg.
Note: This is the second version of an old image I created one year ago.
What lacks: Skytracer is very good with bright skies but I don't like his dark skies. I want to add smoke and dirt using hypervoxels.
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