ReBoot
Year 2, FdSc Games and Animation, Independent Production ReBoot - A Short Animation - Whilst my aim was to make a animated short. Due to technical issue towards the end of my production, I could not produce the animated piece that I wanted too. The end piece became a digital 3D animatic.
After taking my line-art sketch into Illustrator to create new working images for modelling
Using Blend Shapes in Maya to create my Blink/Wink mechanics fro the Bot
Here is the Blend Shapes controls within Maya
Time to scale the Bot to the size required using previous correct to scale assets
A comparison of low and high quality modelling of the Bot
Here is the Bot in its full clean geometry form
The beginning of the simple rig for the Bots movement
The rig of the Bot weighted correctly, also with my Nurb Controls
I have used the Nurb and the Blend Shapes to pose the Bot
Early scene blocking within Maya
The environment for the animation to taking shape
The environment is also finished
Here is the environment with textures
Full environment, needs the street lights to be added
Street lights and Box props being added and place in the scene
Filling the scene with assets
Testing my characters basic colour scheme
The basic colour scheme being used in Maya
My basic cartoon colour scheme for the Bot
Mixed my worn cartoon texture with some rusty texture using Photoshop. Whilst using the Hypershader with Maya on the character
A slightly dazed and confused, broken Bot
ReBoot Animatic ipp
ReBoot 3D Animatic