I am working on this bot for my final project using blender 2.54. I need help with the following:
*how to make goggles (namely the strap)
*how to make and rig a mechanical iris for the eyes
*and suggestions on where to go with the legs/hips
any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
if you would like to help on any part of this project, credit will be given and if the finished piece is good enough it will be submitted to as many animation festivals as possible*
I dont really have any thoughts on where you should go from their but I think your doing a great job so far! I created a quick mock-up of an iris setup and attached the blend file.
IRIS TEST.blend (482 KB)
awesome. Thank you very much. I had looked for tutorials that I could draw from on how to rig this and found nothing. I should be able to learn from yours though and make some killer eyes for my robot.
Your very welcome! Let me know if you have any other questions or would like some help on the project!
Cole do you know of any one that could help in designing a victorian style factory? I’d like something kinda run down. I need an at least one outside set, maybe two. One for flyby and another for close up on only one part. I also need inside as well. If it can be done in one set great, if not then I’m willing to work with more. The inside needs to have a factory floor with small work tables and pipes running haphazardly There needs to be a balcony like area over looking the floor with an office or two behind it. The foreman will make his appearance from here. The factory owner I plan to have lounging in the foreman’s office. The background could be mostly texture based for all I care. If I could find some good references, I could try to make it my self, but I still have alot more I have to do. The storyboards aren’t even finished yet. And the script is mostly in my head. Horrible way to run a production, believe me I know. Organization of any kind was never one of my strong suites, I am trying to change this though.
The story is also really cheesy. It’s basically about a little robot that works in a steam factory (I know, why would you need to manufacture steam?) Everything is going perfectly fine until a pipe starts to leak. No big deal, the bot wheels over and starts to fix the pipe. However as he is working on pipe another begins to go off, then another. Finally he freaks out and begins to leak a little steam his self. After some hopefully humorous robot hysteria, the foreman walks over and pulls the emergency shut off, which was within plain site of the little bot in the first place. This need to last at least three minutes. I know the idea is unoriginal, but I needed something simpler for my final project. At the time this was about as simple a story line as I could come up with.
If you are still interested in helping let me know.
Well I don’t really know anyone but I would be willing to help a little, but as I am fairly busy I’m not sure how much I can do. I found some images:
yes, this is the kinda stuff I am looking for. I won’t need the interior that big. If it’s designed right some of it could just be a back drop made in either gimp or photoshop. I love the arched windows though.
