CD: Improved Final Design

The previous final design was sloppy, and rethinking the design I decided a treaded design would be better. This is a cleaner, reworked front view.

CD: Final Design

This is the final blueprint of my current mech design; while I may digitally remaster it later, this is an accurate, final hand sketch.

CD: Development Sketches

After brainstorming with thumbnails, these are the development stages of my final design.

I started with a detailed sketch, and then drew out the shapes I liked separately. I also happen to be god awful at breaking limbs down into simple shapes.

CD: Thumbnail Sketches

I've sketched multiple concepts. I've produced a couple decent designs.

 Of these sketches, these two are definitely my favorite.

CD: Padlet

For my Mech design, I need to start with concept design. Padlet is a great way to mesh together inspiration and reference images for thumbnail sketches. This is the Padlet I made:

Today I played with animation and Maya sculpting. This is a playblast thumbnail of the abomination I modeled...

Since my school is getting a CNC router, I created an inspiration Padlet.
https://padlet.com/garrettiverson9/2abe2ppnywy3

Today I started learning animation. Progress on keyframing tutorial:

Finished the R2D2 Tutorial today. I get to do the rest myself~

Today I continued the R2D2 tutorial, finishing step 5.

One more boolean project:

Some work with booleans:

Difference:

Intersect:

 Union:

Today i used the Deform Tool:

Bend

Flare

Squash

Sine

Twist

Wave

Bend+Flare

More R2D2 work.

I created these pieces to get experience with the bridge tool and expand on beveling.

Today i finished Step 2 of the R2D2 Tutorial.

I learned more about the bevel tool today, and it's one of my favorites. After first comparing different bevels, I modeled a knife using many different bevels.

Today I played with mud box. Made a weird bird thing.

Today I messed around in Maya, creating a sort of blaster-thing. Not sure what I'll do with it.

Today I revolved curves to create surfaces.

Here's a picture of my Maya Introduction project:

I played with duplicate special today and got some pretty neat shapes:

 

Today I extruded a shape along a path, similar to a face along a path. Came out with this weird tentacle structure.

Before I can actually design anything, I have to learn basic Maya skills.Today, I worked on extruding faces along curves...

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I like robots! Let's make some sweet designs!