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Matrix APU
Published: 2005-08-16 22:28:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 131738; Favourites: 2341; Downloads: 50975
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Amored Personnel Unit from the Matrix movies incase anyone hasen't seen it. Anyways, done with the modeling. Still got a couple more renders to do though. Hope I get some favs.
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Awesome job!
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Ion
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I didn't know the Matrix movies had mechs, I thought it just had weird mind powers, humans as batteries, and the Nebuchadnezzar ship.
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im gonna stop now, this is getting rediculous
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sooo... you only watched the first one?
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I don't recall completing the movies... though I did see a scorpion get into someone's navel.
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yep thats the first one
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Who puts a scorpion into someones navel? Can't you use a q-tip or a stick or something. It would be like trying to shove a whole pie into someones mouth.
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i guess you misundetstood the movie plot...
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I can recall something about a blue pill and a red pill... though that's only because of a Deathrun map from TF2 where the demomans projectiles are shown and described as pills
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I'm pretty sure this mech had kind of hands so it didn't hadto carry the guns all the time.
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indeed, the guns could be holstered at the back of the apu
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the worst model idea ever for a fucking combat mech haha damn lazy Zion engineers
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Just another internet military technology expert trying to sound cool.
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well if you actually watched the movie and had some sort of common sense you would understand why the design is the way it is
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Nice render, I collect images of different equipment to help me with ideas for my fiction and this is the first time I have seen a render of the Matrix 3 Mechs. Awesome work.
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This is a piece of art, or at least it should be. Great job!
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I had reached my wits end this helped me get back on my feet miracles really do exist just think of all the possibilities
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Nice, you should try to draw that scene where theres only the one APU left.
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Cool! How did you make this? It's so AWESOME, I feel as though I could actually use it. (Except, of course, I can't. 
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I'd want one of these in real life. Perfect riot control weapon.
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do you think you could ever do the armoured APU, as seen in the animatrix?
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Did anyone notice this, or is this just me? AVATAR COPIED THE MATRIX!!! They copied the APU, made it more modern, and called it ORIGINAL!!! THAT is an insult to the best movie trilogy ever!! Matrix 1,2,3>Avatar.
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armored battlesuits are pretty much essencial. they basically combine the armor and firepower of an assault vehicle with the agility and responsiveness of an infantry unit. these can even block bullets to protect other infantry soldiers, they can pretty much do anything a human does (except handling delicate things and doing acrobatics... of course) so theyre overall very versatile.
theres absolutelly no way to deny it deserves a place in almost any movie.
otherwise, you can say star wars is a complete rip off from space 1999, because only in Space 1999 laser weapons became common on the screen, and star wars features TONS of those, TONS of times.
or spaceships.
i agree, sometimes movies tend to rip off ideas from eachother, but you must agree that sometimes it is inevitable.
also, these aren't even similar. the AVATAR version is lighter, smoother, pressurised, compact, and has usable hands and (i believe i saw one in the movie) a jetpack propellor to help him jump short distances or absorb falls. APU trades that for a more desperate style: basically a guy attached to a cage geared with legs and two high caliber,apparently watercooled heavy machineguns.
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Wow, ok, I take my previous comment back, it seems you know a lot more about it than me! :3
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well, you should take it back. an opinion is an opinion, afterall.
what you're talking about, that i know a lot more than you, is merely the result of years drawing robots and conceptual weapons based on real-life models and principles. i could say i pretty much know how each and every weapon (firearm or not) works in the inside, and i simply apply it to what i consider to be fit.
instance, water-cooled MGs are extremelly heavy but can fire for really long until they overheat - and in matrix, those APUs seem to fire sometimes 30 seconds or more straight. at that firerate, and assuming the bullets the fire are somewhat equivalent to a .50BMG (the same caliber used in the Browning M2HB machinegun USA uses in armoured vehicles), based on the damage they do, im telling you, those MGs MUST BE WATERCOOLED, because NO BARREL can whitstand that much brutality and heat for so long.
about other tactical considerations about the APU as a vehicle, well, i simply know the pros and cons of most types of vehicles.
if theres EVER any kind of doubt regarding military equipment, feel free to ask me, i'll be pleased if there's something i can help you with.
to be hones most people think im a fanatist for weapons...
well, i am. i absolutelly love them, FROM A MECHANICAL POINT OF VIEW. personally, i hate them because of the fact that they only exist to kill people. other than that, i love destroying targets and testing weapons. who doesnt?
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Personally, I wouldn't see that as an act of copycat. Let's not forget, Avatar was made by Cameron, the same genius that introduced the Power Loader in 1986 via Aliens.
I personally see it more as an act and source of inspiration. XD
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that is true in a way, avatar kind of copied the high soulder design and control interface, but consider it may have been the same concept designer
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Oh yeah, true. Heh Heh 
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what would you do with it? bring your shoppping bags home?
no real use for those except killing machines. or maybe scaring the s**t out of a rioting croud. imagine youre on a riot, and 3 of those things walk in and start shooting rubber rounds and tear gas. i would run for the hills.
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yea something like that or defending home
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i think they have a great control system. just yanking their arms around. but i do feel that they leave the human personel rather.... vulnerable
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Very true. The cockpit needs more armor, and a point defense system of some kind; I don't know, a slightly strong electrical shock armor?
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the cockpit does not need any more armor at all... have you not watched the movie? armor is not a thing for a sentinel, they tear it apart like paper... the only thing armor would be protecting from is friendly fire and rumble falling from above... other than that its just unnecissary weight
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i had one of these toys a while back and this looks spot on
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Just saw Revolutions, it was epic! This is incredible, by the way.
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Looks great! What sort of reference did you use for this piece?
Did you find concept work on the net or just screen shots from the film?
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