Final Draft: Dire Scorpion Video

Today, I've got a neat piece of work to showcase. The first animation project of this course, the Dire Scorpion. The task was to design a six-legged creature (yes, I know scorpions tend to have more than six legs) and then build the model and animate it. Some nice touches I added were the mischevious character of the scorpion and the cameras reaction to his movements. Hope you enjoy it!

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Concept Art: Clockwork Minions

Today's piece is a bit of concept art for a low-polygon model. The task was to create five images of our concept. I decided to create a small humanoid robot with a key in the back, to give the robot a 'cartoonish toy' feel. The top-middle piece shows what the basic robot would look like. The remaining four show the robot in various roles, such as a knight or a scientist. The basic shapes were done in Inkscape, while details were added in Photoshop, using techniques taught in class. My personal favourite is the knight. My brother prefers the barbarian (top-right).

Final Draft: Energy Tower

Been a while since I last updated, but I've got a rather good one this time around! Presenting the Energy Tower! This tower is the final result of an assignment in which we were tasked with modelling and texturing a 3D Building. I based the design off a combination of a Tesla Tower and the tower of Barad-Dur as shown in the Lord of the Rings films. I ended up deciding to make the tower smaller, which gave me the idea to add ladders on each floor. I originally planned to make a stairwell or spiral ramp up the tower, but couldn't get it to look right and ultimately scrapped the idea. The idea of the energy tower is that a large machine at the ground floor powers up a large sphere of energy at the top floor, held in place by six claw-like brackets. I'm very happy with how the dark atmosphere turned out on this one. And the fiery sphere's illumination in contrast to the darkness around it.