In the first half of the month, I finished unwrapping the walker mech and started fiddling with materials with a little bit of texturing. Here are some renders.
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| There is no weathering. I hope I can get away without it in the final product. |
I then spent a few weeks drawing mech designs for a friend of mine. He was creating a board game with mechs, so he got me to design 4 mechs from one of the mech manufacturers in his game.
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| Why does the military use animal names? |
The mechs should look economical, something akin to "the default choice". Alligator is an all-rounder model. Next is Crocodile, an upgraded version of Alligator. Komodo is a heavy mech meant for short range battles. Finally, Salamander is a light unit with heavy fire power. I found designing these mechs a mixture of fun and frustration. The fun comes from drawing robots, obviously. The frustration comes from my not being able to convey the feel of cheap/economical. We even had to resort to adding a hand, something that I think is rather expensive to manufacture.
Moving on from drawing, I resumed working on the car park robot VFX shot. Right now I am recreating the scene in 3D, trying to get the best match between the 3D scene and the 2D footage. Here hoping next month will see some early compositing done.
