Bot Genesis is something that I’ve been wanting for a long time. However, I didn’t think it was worth $30 bucks. I kept waiting until I could get it on a crazy sale. With the release of Giselle 6, any new purchase gave you a 60% discount off some featured artists’ stores. Needless to say, I just scored Bot Genesis for $16.47. Not bad. I think that just might be worth it.

The creator hasn’t updated it or come out with a new version for the Genesis 2 line, so I had to use Michael 5 and Stephane 5. I dropped them in and added all the parts that come with the set.



Here’s a quick render without any lights. You can texture the joints with the characters skin, but for now, here’s the default without anything applied.




I figured I’d also try and see if the bot parts would auto-fit to Victoria 6. No such luck.



Adding the chrome shaders worked pretty well. They look very cool.

There’s several shaders to choose from.


You can also add individual body parts.



It’ll work on any Genesis character. Even the Freak. That looks pretty bad-ass. I’ll have to do something with some massive robot warriors in the future. Can you imagine a render with 10 of these dudes wrecking it?!

Seeing the chrome shader in action makes me think of the Silver Surfer. How easy should that be to pull off? I dropped in Michael 5 Heroic, added a surfboard, applied the shader, and rendered it out.



Please excuse the crudeness of the background, but I literally threw this together in 5 minutes. But there it is: the Silver Surfer.



On to Victoria.

I used the Shader Mixer to apply the chrome shaders to all the parts that needed it, leaving the head with Victoria’s texture. I used Zev0’s Skin Builder for the head and added some hair. I dropped in a plain and added a deformer to it.



I added a little sci-fi prop and some lights.



That’s very cool. Definitely worth $16 bucks. Actually, after seeing the results, I’d say it’s even worth the full $30.



I then decided to make a version that would look cool on my desktop. I stretched out the wall to fill the scene and moved Victoria into a laying position.



I then rendered it out.



I took it into Pixelmator and added a few of Rons Sci-Fi Optical Flares.



Pretty cool. Adding some cyborgs to some Sci-Fi renders is going to look very cool.