FALL 2014 3 -D Character Modeling Project #1 --- Dunny Kidrobot Design
For my first character modeling design ever, I had to come up with a completely original Dunny kidrobot concept.
This process began with a series of in-class, strictly-timed thumbnail drawings. After dozens of concepts, all classmates would vote on which concepts were the strongest for each student and encouraged to go from there;
I drew a vintage rotary dial telephone with a chord attached to the back of the Dunny and receptors for the ears. I chose to proceed with this concept design and develop it further before modeling.
I encountered some bumps in the road in UV mapping everything I wanted to on the Dunny but only managed the numbers and cross on the face and the button on the chest. Still, I feel it represents my overall concept design --- an emergency robotic phone. I named it 'RED ALERT ROB'.
1st series of dozens of thumbnail sketches. 1st stage of emergency robot phone concept.
Further development of concept, adding a satellite on the top of the head and modifying the ears to be sirens
Further modification of concept via the back profile. Ultimately, the phone becomes chordless
Below, are images of my character model produced via Autodesk Maya 2015 and rendered out as an abiment occlusion using Mental Ray
Front
Right side
Back
Left side
Perspective
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