Hey hey hey,
A long time ago, when i was 18-20, i was drawing. Yeah yeah, drawing; with real pens, inks, terror, etc...
And my latest drawings were about chicks with guns, big robots, and collages. It was what one could call my "Otomo/Shirow" time.
Then, i started to focus on characters and i left mechanic on the sideway (some might see a relation with the fact that i still don't have a driving license which could be the reason of many frustrations, bah... anyway, i bought a bicycle few weeks ago )...
Autodesk asked me for some visuals, and this one was a rejected proposal for Maya, that i left at modeling stage.
Because i thought it was interresting (i know - it ain't a big revolution - the big monowheel thingy have been seen many times before) i felt like pushing it further.
Using my actual technique, the 3passRender+photoshop, i made this pict.
Occlusion pass, a raytrace + shadows pass and an HDRI speculars render. No texturing (which means NO fucking UVs, yeahahaa).
Hope you'll like it.
It's my tribute to the master Otomo and, in the meantime, a way to say hi to my fella Pascal Blanché who is also a huge fan of Akira's father.

Thanks to "Fox" for some of his psychopath advices as well.

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and the 3 renderpass & the wireframe.