Project 2a hand in

Materiality: Tanker airplane

Motion: Excavator

Meaning: EOD BOT (explosive ordinance disposal robot)

Design character: underwater machine guard, it is organized by steel plate, surface reflects

its strong and brave, and it is like a round lamp type is reflected the machine sight is broad,

and arc reduce resistance in the water, during float process, make it easy for people link with

free style like a bubble, two lamps-looking 'eyes', is connected to main body important

components, like two wings of the plane engine, imagine it can be illuminated farther.

Multifunctional properties at the back of the character, the hose could move easily, not

restricted by environment position design, accurately reach the designated position, claws

have been installed on the tail, to complete action under water, it could rotation like

propeller (but it is drilling motion from the excavator, control the direction, also can make it

change work, such as cutting, scratching, and so on all can certainly believe it can be easily

complete, three claws opening also shows the strong, fierce personality, the story is mainly

around an exploration of the oceans, but might be also protect the ocean story. The meaning

from the explosive ordinance disposal robot, it means to protect the environment or the

place character live.

 Orthographic:

Storyboard:

Environment

 Motions

normal swimming, rotating, and tail up with three claws rotating for cutting.

Project 2a process

Some basic modeling tutorial for maya and render for vray, sadly did not find vray for mac 2013 Here!!!

  Still not sure is the right way or wrong to make my model, because just before i never use rigging, so worry about my character could move or not after i finish all model.

several tutorial URL to help me modeling the 'hose' looking part of the character: 

Youtube tutorial Here

To modeling the spiral modeling Here

Modeling forum Here

Modeling process

some process render images during modeling, still need to change something, more process will be present later.

give more realistic detail on it

Testing with the bulb kind of materiality on the character

Just roughly render for the model... need more develop to the ending material...

Here are some another useful videos or website for Maya:

Get to know some basic ideas about what is mia_material for the MentalRay(did not find the vray setting for mac, that is quite sad.)

http://wiki.bk.tudelft.nl/toi-pedia/MIA_Material_-_Basics

While consider the UV is probably the best idea to give more normal texture on the model(i might be consider that after hand in, depending on the time, because since I did not know how long is it take for my 15s render result) tutorial about UV texturing map basic:

http://☂.net/umbrella/2010/08/the-basics-of-uv-mapping-in-maya-2011/

Still working on the image and material render testing

This link is use for self illuminate might be useful for the model.

HDR image from the website: http://cg.tutsplus.com/freebies/textures/freebie-8-awesome-ocean-hdris/

some texture apply in my model:

http://cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=5043&PHPSESSID=uqdtd1gpgh4n1kg1u5evf3hrv2

http://cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=6827&PHPSESSID=uqdtd1gpgh4n1kg1u5evf3hrv2

Project II start

That video I think many of us had seen this before, the machine or its components movements, could be some inspiration for the project 2.

                 

There was one animation i find on the Vimeo, looking quite cute, and bring the behind scene to the blog to get some ideas, if i maybe doing the animation for the real time. Somehow need lots of effect in it.

Sketches that had done just several days.

Materiality: Tanker airplane

Motion: Excavator

Meaning: EOD BOT(explosive ordinance disposal robot)

Design character: underwater machine guard, it is organized by steel plate, surface reflects its stong and brave, and it is like a round lamp type is reflected the machine sight is broad, and arc reduce resistance in the water, during float process, make it easy for people link with free style like a bubble, two lamps-looking 'eyes', is connected to main body important components, like two wings of the plane engine, imagine it can be illuminated farther.

Multifunctional properties at the back of the character, the hose is move easily, not restricted by environment position design, accurately reach the designated position, claws have been installed on the tail,to complete action under water, it could rotation like propeller（but it is drilling motion from the excavator）, control the direction, also can make it change work, such as cutting, scratching, and so on all can certainly believe it can be easily complete, three claws opening also shows the strong, fierce personality, the stroy is mainly around an exploartion of the oceans, but might be also protect the ocean story. 

 Tanker airplane

Excavator(multi-function as i stated above)

 EOD BOT(meaing guard our place)

The model i choose for my second project

The Orthographic sketches of character

MDDN241 Project 1 Hand in

Music reference:

http://www.freesound.org/people/pcaeldries/sounds/30322/
http://www.freesound.org/people/SoundCollectah/sounds/109360/
http://www.freesound.org/people/martats/sounds/135866/
http://www.freesound.org/people/thenudo/sounds/146765/
http://www.freesound.org/people/SoundCollectah/sounds/158464/
http://www.freesound.org/people/SoundCollectah/sounds/158465/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Phr4kture/sounds/71062/
http://www.freesound.org/people/ocea/sounds/28057/
http://www.freesound.org/people/mwmarsh/sounds/85915/

Project 1 Poster

Three Renders

Three render images for my final poster

Texture for the project 1