Introducing....

Introducing....

Now that he has colour...

Has been a while, but here we go...

So I know it has been a while since I added anything to my blog. There is a very simple reason for this, I did nothing that would of been of interest to anybody. For the past couple of weeks I had been working on my essay, which I think we can all agree does not make for interesting viewing. However I now have a new screenshot of my "bot" as it stands at the moment. The rigging is complete and I hope to have a video of him in full motion soon enough. Also he currently looks too "smart". I intend to work with the polygons to cover him in dents and such, so that he is more in keeping with the hobo effect I was going for. I have also created him to be hunched over, a result of his life not going to plan and the weight of worry upon his shoulders so to speak. His face has also been designed to convey a sense of sadness and depression, with downward slanting eyes and a "bot beard" look to his lower jaw. I have yet to decide whether I want to add a mouth to my robot. so as it stands he currently does not have one.

So here be some arms

So in Andy's seminar this week we learnt how to do basic rigging, and here is my attempt at it. I have made the hands do a series of poses just to get my head round creating motion and using the keys on the time line. So basically this is what I have come up with. A lot of the movements, although slow, do appear to be a bit more human than robotic, but I think this adds to the whole thing, giving my robot a more human feel makes it easier to relate to him.

Basic motion

So basically I just took my original truck and created a short animation simply by rotating the tires and moving the whole thing along the scene. It is very basic but is, after all just practice for the main project.

Looking at slapstick

Above are a couple of examples of slapstick in a more modern setting. The first is from robot chicken, the second is Rowan Atkinson from Not the Nine O'clock News.