Monday, December 8, 2008

Figma Mirai Suenaga

Mirai Suenaga is the mascot character of dannychoo.com designed by Azami Yuko sensei. If you're directed to this blog from dannychoo.com, truth is Figma Mirai Suenaga is only a concept Figma figure - a 3D illustration. Gotcha!

But who knows, maybe we might get to see the real thing in the near future.

All linked images below are resized. If you like to view the original images, you can browse them on my Piscasa album HERE.

Disclaimer: I am neither selling Figma figures nor related to Max Factory. All illustrations here are strictly fanart. I also do not own any Figma figures so please pardon me if the joints or any other parts are interpreted incorrectly.





Mirai-chan and her default pose.



She's glimmering with happiness, isn't she?




Brunette megane Mirai-chan in blue uniform.




I think I'm running out of poses o.o



キラッ☆(kirakira)




ぱんちら(panchira)~
Gotta love bad puns xD



Mirai-chan demands a hug. Any volunteers?



Nekomimi moodo desu~♪
Nya I like cats too...



Figma Mirai Suenaga created using 3ds Max 9 (not 2009) and rendered with V-Ray 1.5rc3 on an old 2GHz Compaq Presario laptop. She weighs in at a whopping 260,000 poly count if collapsed to a mesh and caused my poor lappy to freeze at times.



It spent me more than 5 months to work on Figma Mirai. Took me long because I was re-learning Max and researching on different modeling techniques concurrently. The last time I actually completed something with the 3D program was probably like 10 years ago when I did the EVA-01 mod for Quake2. Self-taught back then as well.

I'm pretty new to V-Ray (a 3D shader) though. I still don't quite understand what most of the V-Ray settings do. For all I know, I had to used the lowest irradiance map settings, otherwise Max will take forever to finish rendering on this computer. Maybe that is why the images look quite coarse if zoomed in.

Currently working on another Figma Mirai model that has a lower polygon count. Might be interesting on what I could do with her.

32 comments:

dannychoo said...

Gorgeous!
Sent you mail regarding your great work. Mail me back when you get a chance.

puppy52doll said...

Love this! :D I really like how you rendered her, I was totally fooled into thinking she's a real figma lol!

Mimi said...

Wow... *speechless* that's really really amazing.

ron~ said...

great job there! very great detail :O

Hayasaki-kun said...

AWESOME work!!!

Pus2meong said...

DROOL....!!!

bolt said...

.. even with the default settings vray is an awesome renderer.. anti aliasing settings are teh key to the render time i've found out.

work with maya mainly.. but the job has max.. go figure.. if you need any help in figuring stuff out give me a buzz..

excellent work btw.. coundn't tell it was 3D.. :D

andra said...

OMG. you did a very very good job! ^^ I love the nya nya Mirai!

Harts said...

Well done, just like the real thing:)

Anonymous said...

Can't help but comment, you are really good man.

jonhohx said...

beautiful....really very well done...xxxcellent job

Anonymous said...

This is made of condensed awesome.

Would buy!

suki said...

Wow, brilliant work! You're an inspiration to me, someone who is also self-taught ^o^

Tozoku said...

That's amazing! :D You should consider doing commissions of 3D art like this.

TeeCare said...

Look cool n nice!!! Good Job.. So far I never done it before.

P/S: got your blog link from dannychoo.com

Anonymous said...

Let me ask you a question. What kind of shader did you use?.Her finished like painted plastic is very cooool. It´s very interesting for me because i´m 3d artist, or i try it and work with 3d studio max 9.
Regards and thank you in advance.

P.S Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Ionized said...

V-Ray. I've mentioned it in the last few paragraphs in the blog.

denkikoiji said...

love it ^^ i was wondering if i could get the .max file of miria ? i would love to look at it in 3ds max 9 ^^

Ionized said...

Glad you like the pictures.

Sorry I'm afraid I do not have the bandwidth to upload the MAX file because it's quite big (over 50MB including textures).

You can always look at the IVE or WRL 3D model files in the "Figma Mirai Meets Augmented Reality" blog though.

Anonymous said...

Hi, again. I know that you used v-ray, i want to know the material, shader you used, v.g. glass, marble, wood,... or textures you applied it, but in your model.
Great job, congratulations.

Ionized said...

Oh... the materials eh? You might be surprised to hear that I used the Standard Blinn shader with default settings for most of my 3D objects. I only used V-Ray material for the glasses and plane. Heck, you don't even need V-Ray material for the plane.

To create photo-realistic renders, my trick is to have a HDR texture map as the main lighting in V-Ray. See my scene example (3.1MB) to get what I mean.

P.S. If the scene download link complains about bandwidth exceeding limit, please try again at a later time.

Anonymous said...

Nice work man, i am learning maya now, and i want to model her as my final test, can you support me with some sketch ??

Ionized said...

Thanks.

I didn't do any orthographic drafts of Mirai-chan before the modeling work. (I should.) My only references are the official illustrations and my imagination.

You may want to reference the VRML model in my Figma Mirai Meets Augmented Reality blog if you have Cosmo Player or other VRML plug-in installed in your browser.

Anonymous said...

wow that's awesome man. Ok think i can make my owe reference for her.

Des said...

You want me to make this for you? I run www.ownage.com.. I can make this into a real product... but only for you and danny.

Des said...

Free of course~

Ionized said...

Wow. Interesting business you have there Des.

Thanks for the offer but you don't have to make one for me. I can however supply you with the 3D model and texture files if you seriously want to make one for Danny/yourself/your site. Email me at ionized@live.com if interested.

Des said...

aw.. really? well lemme make one and see if I can't change your mind about getting one yourself haha. we should make one for danny at least yah? oki.. lemme email you.

denkikoiji said...

Glad you like the pictures.

Sorry I'm afraid I do not have the bandwidth to upload the MAX file because it's quite big (over 50MB including textures).

You can always look at the IVE or WRL 3D model files in the "Figma Mirai Meets Augmented Reality" blog though.
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thank you, ill take a look there ^^ but if you ever wanted to upload it i know of a way to make it split the file into 1mb to upload it faster ^^ if you are interested you can email me: denkikoiji@denkikoiji.com and i have a program im gonna try with the 3d model files i may be able to use them to make a video with her ^^

Ionized said...

denkikoiji: Replied you via email on 15th but didn't hear from you. Wonder if my mail was lost in transit again...

denkikoiji said...

sorry about being slow i sent back an email ^^

Joey1058 said...

Wow. Now I want figma Mirai all the more!

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