Overall Renders

Here are some images of how i would like it to look, still have to play with the amount of detail
and the cartoonyness ;)

Mechanic Final

Heres a final render of the car mechanic:



I realy like how textures and materials can
do so much :)

Car Mechanic

Here is the Car mechanic:
It's still a work in progress, but i'm almost done modeling him.
I have to say i realy enjoyed working on the face!!

Grandpa Side Face

Car-mechanic side face:
Kind of like my sketch, but in the new concept he's a happy character.
I think the side maches the sketch kinda good, though i find modeling his front a bit more dificult :)
Post that soon..

Robot compositing concept.. (rough background)

Overall compositing & color test:

Some form of a luxury render (took a bit to long per frame for the computer that i have now,

but i thought, let share it :P This is a little preview of the quality where i finaly want to go to (with my new 8 core, 2x xeon i7 :D :D )

it's still a concept, it's about the overal idea..

The background is not finished btw, there are some errors in it as well..

The model is also not at it's top, not totaly smoothed etc, And it definitly needs a lot of rust and broken parts! I have to check what my pc can handle for now, bottleneck!!

For compositing this was also an Occlusion and depth of field test..

Hmm and i think the colors are maybe a bit to happy now..

Enough moaning, back to work!!

Hope you like!

Robot modeling progress

Robot modeling update (not in real colors jet, just a modeling render test):



I'm furter than this, but i upload that soon, i'ts about all the things you don't realy see.
The stuff behind the model you mostly see when it's textured and animated. Rigging and uv-mapping are realy time consuming, but later on it will pay off :D

Ah and i really have to start with his face, though i kind of like this order of workin now,
so i can purely focus on the body, and don't get distracted bij a face all the time :)

Storyboard

Storyboard (need some adds and changes)

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References

4 Overall color and shapes references

Robot concepts

Here are the final robot designs:

(In all views so i can use them as moddeling reference directly in Maya.)

4 This a final concept of a front view of the robot:

4 Chair Clap mechanism and the backside of the robot:

4 Imageplanes, front and sideview of the robot:

4 Imageplanes for his hands

4 Here is a rendertest of the model i'm working on right now.

It now looks like a clean and new looking robot, but with rust/ scratch textures and parts off i make it old and broken like. And for the total animation that i plan finishing in my own time, i also need a clean model, finaly it gets totaly repaired..

Environment concepts

4 Here you can find some environment concepts

Character concepts

4Some character concepts (mechanics):

Final Mechanic head:

Story

4 This is the main story that i'm partly working out:

Defact

4Welcome to my graduate project blog 3 02r

This blog is about my final animation at the HKU: 3D Animation and Visual effects. Here you can follow my work from concept to production.
I plan to finish an action part of my animation to keep quality in my designs as wel as in animation. It happend to much times that time was running out for both my personal and group projects. Not that it was'nt finished, but just not real work were i was totaly proud of...
Now i just want to get it all right in a part of an animation, to show my skills in a polished kind of work.

I hope you enjoy my work,

_ crits en comments are always welcome :)