Chipper Animation

Here is the animation I created of Chipper along with the new STFX Studios Projects intro video. The shots in the animation were chosen purposefully to show different aspects of the model/rig/animation. Apologies for the compression of the video, its just something that comes with uploading to YouTube, I may switch to Vimeo at some point.

I would also like to add that I got most of my textures for Chipper from http://www.cgtextures.com/ which is a  great resource for obtaining all sorts of textures to use on your 3D models. Give it a look.

I hope you like it, let me know what you think or if you have any questions. Don't forget to subscribe to the site and the YouTube channel.

Say Hello To Chipper!

Here is Chipper! This is a project I have been working on for some time now. My initial inspiration was Disney Pixar's Wall·E. The story behind him is that he is a gardening/environmental robot, so has been left outside and gotten rusty and dented. I used the fact that he looked a bit like Wall·E to create a similar style image which I have posted below. I created the model in Maya, unwrapped it in 3D-Coat and textured it in Photoshop. I wrote a complete MEL script to drive the tank tracks in relation to movement of the robot. The model is fully rigged and has several controls for various features such as his eyes and hands.

I will upload the animation I created very soon and I could upload another video taking you through what went into Chipper if people are interested.

Hope you like it. Let me know what you think, or if you have any questions.