Im working as fast as I can to animate the different scenes to begin rendering by friday.

I have bit the bullet and started working with paint effects. I have estimated that when time comes to finally render, Frames will take around 40 mins depending on the shot. I rendered my images below in 1080 though, and I will be rendering in 720 for the final animation. Also the renders below were heavy shots where I purposely tried to fill the frame.

I need to expand my forest some, not alot, just a bit more. I need to add some fog to help the transition in a distance. Ill just use a a torus as the fog container shape and surround my scene. I need to fix the ground texture mostly, add some rock variance and add rock formation around the firplace. The smoke from the fire is becoming yellow with the light, so I need to increase transparancy or decrease color gain.

I believe these changes will make it look great and I begin the animation.

 Rendered in Maya.

So I am very close to finishing up the Transporter. I wanted to make use of this break the best way I could. So I looked at my design critically and kept the things I liked and scrapped the things I didn't  In the end I am really happy with the result. I will finish things this week and hopefully solve the environment issue.

 Secondary Shot

Side View

Perspective

Maya

Blocking out the transporter to my thesis. Getting together the main components to the head of the transporter.

I had planned to use this last week to create my environment in Vue. Since vue is not up on the computers and might not be till we come back, I decided to work on tightening things up. I went back and started prepping the model for some rigging so I can have it posed when I present next week.

Breakdown of the work i did this week

Restructured Body -1.5 Hours

Updated Shaders (Help seperate main compontents) - 1 Hour

Joints and Model Tweeking - 4 hours

Lights - about an hour.

Cockpit - 1 hour

Grouping and Renaming - 5.5 hours

I plan to also have the model completely textured by next week when it comes time to present. The textures may not be completely finished but will be at a point where I could leave them, should I get backed up on y timeline.

The Main body parts, once modeled, completed the form of the Mech I have named Gladius. Gladius is the Latin word for sword and is also a type of sword. The form once completed, exposed some flaws and problems. The foot area lacked an ability to pivot. The hands design clashed with the overall common design aspects I created with the mech. Also the pelvis area had some substantial problems with scale and form. I went about to correct these problems and came up with this.



I have corrected the problems previously stated and am breaking down major components with color,

I went back and did some more conceptualizing and focused hard on the functionality over the last two weeks. Here is a concept drawing I did of the mech. Blocking out and drawing took me around 4 hours.

   Mech Progress

 The big inspirations for this mech design derive from three sources. Two big inspirations come from anime shows Zoids and Gundam. These shows have both achieve the main things I want to achieve with my mechs. Mobility and style. Though Zoids mech derive from animal designs, they still bare all the designs of a common mech.


Zoids are very intricate in design because are a underlying body thats made of a body frame, pipes, hydraulics, bolts, wires, and tubes. This underlying frame is covered with armor pieces that give the overall look of the mech. Th armor pieces are fitted in ways that dont restrain the movements of each zoid but still providing cover to the crucial components. Every zoid is built with this structure and I will utilize something similar in mine.














Gundams are my main inspiration in areas of aesthetics and proportions. I want to create my own look from using gundams as my guidelines.

I figured I would try my take on a more retro approach to this mech transporter. This was a more of a design study then a practical concept.  The overall design is not something that I wanna use but I found some design aspects that I want to keep. I will now try to achieve the final design of this vehicle in my final concept drawing.



This next week I will try to create my mech concept. I will try to freeform the concept rather than block out my drawings in maya. I have a strong visual sense of what I want to achieve and I think blocking out the design would waste more time instead of saving it.

I need to share the plot background to this project to help give the visual style. So here it is

Forward 10 years its 2060 and the Order has been moving in the shadows of the outside world. They gathered there resources and devised a plan to get past the colonies first line of defense, the Golems. But to say get past is technically inaccurate, they plan to capture a Golem in hopes to find a suitable weakness they can exploit. To do this the Order has created 3 mechs with considerably strong capabilities to confront a Golem. The Order has also been getting help from a very unlikely source during these past few years. In an attempt to revert society to the way it once was, another exceptionally skilled hacker group by the name Igloo has been leaking details and information to Order from inside the colonies. Limited to what they can do without being discovered they plan to launch a consecutive cyber attack from the inside with the Order. Here is where the story begins...

Now i am working on gradually gathering a cohesive style for my project. I have been working on the concept to Mech Transporter called Haven and this is what I have so far.

Its a start but I would like to achieve something more mechanical and rugged. I think this vehicle is to clean to be created without the use of much industrial means.

This is where ill be tracking my progress for my thesis. My thesis project revolves around making assets for a 5 min animation called Omnivision. I have done a lot of writing on this idea and have put a lot of thought in it. Now I begin making the visual style of these assets


Environment - Vue asset created in proportions to Environment Layout

Ground Carrier - large ground vehicle for transporting mechs

Mech - piloted vehicles

Golem and Particles - golem using particles