ROBO ROCKIN'

Fall 2016 Vertical Studio Boot Camp Project

Final Product

Robo Rockin' is a 5 second collaborative animated short made in 5 weeks in Tim McLaughlin's Vertical Studio at Texas A&M University. I set dressed, modeled the legos, rigged and animated the robot. Our ultimate goal was to jam out for this project!

Riggin' Da Bot

Roadie = Rigger

Character Rig

The arm rigs on the character is a hybrid of an inverse kinematic spline control and a forward kinematic control. I added a spline IK on both of robots arm joints which consists of 11 joints. Then I attached three clusters to the IK spline curve and parented them to control curves that manipulate the shoulder, elbow and wrist.

Clusters applied to IK Spline Curve

Clusters are parent constrained to the controllers

The controllers act as forward Kinematic controls, while it operates using an IK Spline!

My Rockin' Crew!

The Credits

Zuri Simpson - Modeling, Texturing, Surfacing, Lighting

Benjamin Rathke - Modeling, Surfacing, Compositing, Rendering

Nicholas Harvey- Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Sound

Song Credit: Dragonforce: Fire and the Flames

This is a school project and was not made for profit, but rather to test our abilities as technical artists in weeks.

Enjoy!

This is a student project and is NOT being used for commercial use.

Our project was created using Maya, After Effects and Ableton Live 9!

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