#centaur robot

This weekend, I started replacing and fixing pieces of geo in my robot. Nothing too drastic yet... mostly I’m just trying to clean things up and make it possible to add more “fear” to the foundation pieces. The lighter geo is the updated stuff, the darker is old or incomplete stuff (it’s how I’m keeping track). 

I haven’t gotten back to the baby raptor project (discouraged by edge loop flow, combined with an increase in workload), but this week I’ve been thinking about revisiting an old school project. 

One of our assignments was to model/texture/rig/everything a robot character. And then, we’d have to use it for some animation tests. At the time, I tried to incorporate animal shapes and a simple design, and it worked well enough for my purposes then. 

Now, I’d like to add more to it. Change weird shapes. Add what one of my instructors called “fear” (which basically means panels, wires, and other details that can make a robot look intimidating/interesting). Make something that requires trickier rigging.

So, I watched old playblasts, looked at my still renders (one of which is the first image), and then cleaned out a model file of everything but the model. I took a few renders using an occlusion-y shader; I put them in an image file, together, so I can draw on it as ideas come for changes and additions.