New Brief: Brooke Park fountain

Started a new brief as i was getting nowhere with the seating matters character ! i found that Brooke Park have submitted an aplication for a regeneration. So i've decided to design a new contemporary fountain for the area shown below:

Heres the link to my prezi presentation outlinging my project...

M:\year3 WORK\3D design\brooke park\brookeparkprezi.htm

Character Design Brief: Seating matters

For Des 514 I chose the character design brief, where i will design a character for the company 'Sating Matters' located in Derry.

Heres a few examples of company characters and 3d characters below, i want to create a fun character than will put across the ethos of the company and also help promote Seating Matters.

http://prezi.com/cpqecpbbwa5w/present/?auth_key=5jovqzh&follow=vincentdoherty15@msn.com

FINAL VIDEO !

After a very stressful few weeks, with changing my charcter and 3dmax heres my animation !

quality and that didn't turn out to what i had hoped but here it is...

Heres the UVW unwrap of my character below !

Modelling

Model unwrapped

New character 'FRED'

heres the sketchs and character sheet for my new idea !

New idea

i was struggling witht he modelLing of a realistic human character so i decided to change my idea to a cartoon like alien called 'FRED' ...

something around these lines i'l model and animate !

Character Sheet

Heres my character sheet for 'The Football Hooligan'

Character design

Base layer done... ready to start painting it in photoshop

Mickey 'The scouse physco'

Football hooligan Character sketchs !

Here the the first initial sketchs of my character..
i took the idea of a football hooligan, mines has a black zip up jacket, blue jeans and white trainers !
His facial features are a shaved head, angry looking face and a scar across his face.

These are just pencil sketchs at the minute to give you the idea of my character, but im going to get the digital sketching of this done over the weekend so im ready to start modelling on tuesday :)

3d Character Design

New brief, new project !

I've decided to design a realistic, football hooligan for my 3d character design.

Will upload the sketchs etc soon !

Final Animation

Heres the link to my final animation on youtube ! i am happy with the final outcome, the animation worked well !

i also added titles and a soundtrack using adobe premiere, the only problem is that the video slightly pixeletted when i brung it into premiere but other than that im really happy with the final animation of TANKINATOR !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtCbEiP0oj8

Nearly there.....

Here half of my animation rendered,, the other half is rendering at the minute...

Rendering in process

This is the final design and location of my animation..It takes roughly 2hours to render my video,

animation test

Here are two tests i did for my animations...

New model

I've made new guns for the tankk..

Textured model

Nearing final model

I am now nearing the final model. I have linked all the parts and hierarched the bits that are going to be animated using dummys.

I merged the tank tracks with the main structure of the tank... i will now apply the texture soon.

Changes to my animation

While modelling, ir an into a few problems with the tank, so i decided to still use the main body of the tank and tracks,,, but use two robotic type arm guns in stead of one main gun.....

Modelling pics

I've started modelling my tank in 3dmax.. heres a few screen shots of them.

This will be an extra gun on the rear of the tank, which will also be animated.

Heres the main body of the tank, thers alot of work still to be done to it however !

These are my tank tracks,, they are already animated !

Tank/Bot Sketches

Few rough sketches of my tank model, the arrows represent the way it will animate, the tank tracks moving foward witht he guns and small camera swilling around in a circular motion. If i have time i will also try to animate the guns shooting to make the animation more interesting !

Side View

Front View

Same idea but with two smaller guns on the rear of the model..

Same idea again but instead of the tank like gun cannon thing i sketched a gatlin gun in its place !

Initial ideas and location ideas !

This is similiar to what i want with my 3d design but abit more simple, with the tank tracks and some type of gun on top of it.. shouldn't be to difficult beacuse we did the tank tracks and robotic arm ! i've started sketching out ideas already.

This is an example of the type of location i want my animation to be in, kind of secluded forest area? thers a place similar to this near my house which i could take the photos !! the chrome ball has been bought too.

New Project product design

I've went down the furturistic weapons route..

I've been doing a bit of research into furistic weaponry and i like the idea of a portable remote control gun.. slightly like a mini tank or something.. heres some pictures of existing ones !