24 hour Robot project
With a need to upgrade the look of my friendly kiddish looking robot Arti to a much more aggressive fighter look, I wanted to come up with few fast concepts for the face and the look of the robot. cuz im not good at sketching or drawing. I was more interested about 3D concepting, after few hours in Google I found out some awesome artists who do exactly the same.
drawing attempt :P
Inspiring Artists and their work
John Mahoney : http://mahoneyconceptartist.blogspot.sg/
Vitaly Bulgarov : http://vitalybulgarov.blogspot.sg/
Vitaly Bulgarov : http://vitalybulgarov.blogspot.sg/
Anthony Jones : http://www.robotpencil.net/
Marc Brunet : http://bluefley.blogspot.sg/
Vitaly Bulgarov
After being inspired by their work flow and techniques this is how I created the 24 hour robot.
Do a good amount of research
Research is every thing, may it be the BIG DOG from Boston dynamics, iron man, gypsy danger or the Ducati monster 798 sports bike,
the more you look at them the easier it is gonna be in later steps. from my experience looking at artist creations helps me to achieve the cool factor, the real world ref's helps me to make it grounded and make it feel real.
Creating the geometry
- kit bashing, duplicating and dirty modeling is the name of the game, you should only worry about the look from an specified camera angle and no freaking any thing else. NO: UV unwrap,poly edge flow, functionality or production readiness of the Geo. just make it look cool.
I wanted to minimize software switching so I used Maya for geo creation. Yep I could have a used Zbrush or Mudbox but I'm not that proficient in their hard surface techniques, so i didn't go there.
When doing kit bashing you should have some pre-created geos, it can be nuts, wires, metal frames, tubing, connections, joints or whatever. For this specific project I broke out few of my past models and created a small library of hard surface stuff.
parts library screen shot
Rendering
- For rendering I used a bit of mental ray for specific passes such as AO and mostly Keyshot (www.keyshot.com), key shot is an nice software that allow you to light using HDRI and render 3D geo in almost real time, it has predefined material and Hdri presets which makes it super easy to try out different materials, colors and lighting environments. it can also out put the final image in passes. (pic)
raw render from Key shot and few support passes
Adding details and finalizing the look
- after rendering very perfect cg looking robot from the key shot , its time to make it real !!, weathering the surfaces, adding more details like screws and nuts , scratches, dents, drips , dust , stickers and bullet holes. all done in Photoshop you can use actual images cut out parts from it or paint over the render using different brushes.
After the paint over in photoshop
when your happy with the robots details do some color correction on top of every thing add some optical defect, such as lens distortion, DOF, noise, grain, chromatic Aberrations and stuff. for this part I use After Effects as I'am more comfortable with it.
Final out come after CC and optical effects
This art work took 24 hours from start to finish, the plan is to reduce that time to 8 to 10 hours.
hope it will help you in some ways and thank you for reading as always please feel free to let me know if
you have any questions. Happy Creating !!
THE END :)
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Autodesk features "the Crab" on the july 2014 AREA Quarterly Newsletter
After spending quite a lot of time to create an artwork, it feels good when its being recognized by an external party.It confirms that you have done some thing good and it motivates you to create MORE :D.
thanks awesome people @ Autodesk !!
thanks awesome people @ Autodesk !!
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combining and stitching them
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This video illustrates the scenario much clearer
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actually...
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Untitled from jdgayan on Vimeo.