3D Animation - Bender and the Devil Robot

Sunday, 6 April 2014

Benders and the Devil robot's Reference plates and textures

These Images were created in adobe illustrator because the resourced images of bender and the devil robot i found were shots that would not help me create my character meshes.

Custom textures for Bender and the Devil robot:

Because like the reference plates, i could not source suitable textures, I re-created the characters colours in Adobe Photoshop.

Bender:

Benders head structure layout:

Benders arm and leg texture

Benders base texture for fingers

Benders body texture and door design

Benders mouth texture

Benders and the Devil robots eye texture

Devil Robot:

Devil robots arm and leg texture

Devil robots base texture e.g. the body, head.

The devil robots other base texture for fingers.

Character analyzing - Zoidberg from Futurama

Clip 1:

In this first clip of zoidberg, shows a definite observation about this character, the male squid crab, shows that he has a real bad sense of self worth through his posture and facial expressions, the squid has a sad looking hunched over worthless look about him, that makes people not want to be round him.

This is the vibe he gives in his body language.

The second clip then shows one of the reasons why he has no self worth, being a squid crab, he has a natural odour through his natural under arm ink, which is quite a pungent and offensive smell to other characters.

Clip 2:

In this second clip it shows that he has no table manners and eats food like a pig, he Gobles it down with a lot of noise, putting food everywhere and on everyone around him, he has a hunched over and protectiveness of his food, so no one can take it, so again people avoid him.

This leads to a very aggressive side to his character, because he is always hungry through lack of food and his favourite food is very hard to come by, so he can be threatening to people trying to get more food, showing a threatening posture.

Clip 3:

In this third clip, it shows that he does have colleges, but they are not really his friends, because they do not value his opinion and are not interested in what he has to say, they tell him so in a very unfriendly way, threatening him to be quiet and he shows he is very afraid and cowls over in fear, being a squid – crab, his natural instinct jumps in and his ink splatters all over the character that is threatening to him and his natural instinct comes in again and he runs away, in the way zoidberg does.

His body language shows when trying to be heard, he shows a laid back image of the squid – crab, then it shows him very afraid in a protective posture and then lastly his body language shows when running away with fear, his arms are up in the air.

Clip 4:

In this fourth clip, it shows the other side of zoidberg, when he is out with his friends and they actually need him for once, he is very pleased that they have asked him to do something for them and he opens up a can with him special claw like hands and he feels for a moment that they want him around.

He is very overjoyed about with his body language showing a happy smiley face when he is opening the can and his hands up happily, that he has done something good for his friends and could do what they wanted him to do the right way.

Because deep down he likes to be liked and likes doing things for other people.

Action plan - Chosen idea:

My chosen idea 1 where the good guy bender stops the devil robot on the roof, causing mass harm, bender is the roof top savoir and will save the day.

First shot shows bender walking casually along the street in new York

Then bender stops, his eyes are wide open and he tilts slightly to hear a noise coming from above him.

Bender then turns his head and uses his robot mechanics to make his eyes zoom out of his head to focus up at the building to source the unusual noise.

A shot showing the devil robot looking over the edge of the building and then the devil robot starts to pick up a bomb from the crate beside him.

A shot back on bender as he looks worried, he then quickly rushes off screen.

Bender then enters the next scene by running towards a window cleaners platform

bender then jumps into a window cleaner's platform that is also a lift and angrily pressing button to make it go up and faster as bender leaves the scene.

However the devil robot is enjoying himself, by having fun by throwing multiple bombs down at the people below, he then stand tall and posses with an evil laugh.

The devil robot actions suddenly stop as he hears something coming up, he puts his hand to his ear.

Bender is making his way up, coming up faster, still looking angry

with a different camera view, bender is nearing the top, but the devil robot suddenly appears and angrily pulls bender up to his level.

Now the devil robot is feeling smug as he has caught his spy, bender is strung up panicking.

Then as the devil robot laughs, bender then opens his eyes wide open as if he had just thought of a plan.

bender then sneakily, disconnects his leg joint, and the leg joint drops onto the roof, hops behind the devil robot and kicks him.

This gave the devil robot a shock with wide open eyes and caused the devil robot to drop bender and then lose his balance and unluckily fall off the edge of the building with depressing eyes.

In the credits however it has a scene that the devil robot has survived and is hanging on a beam.

idea 2

the devil robot is holding him up by his head as bender is starting to worry, then he whist the devil robot is laughing, detaches his leg joint, the leg then moves behind the devil robot, kick him in the back.

the devil robot is surprised, he loses his balance, he trips over the edge, releases bender and falls to his death, or so you think.

Storyboard Ideas - ideas of what could happen between Bender and the devil robot.

Ideas:

An idea involving bender casually minding his own business down a street in new York, when suddenly he hears a noise above him, he uses his robot mechanics to zoom his eyes out to zoom in to see the devil robot with a crate of bombs being thrown out towards the public.

Bender shocked by what he has seen, he rushes off screen

he is then scene jumping into a window cleaner lift and angrily pressing a button to make it go up and faster.

meanwhile the devil robot is still having fun, laughing to himself, but he hears a sound

bender seen by a down view camera angle coming up faster

a camera angle shot over the shoulder of bender as he nears the top.

but then a hand suddenly appears and pulls him up and before the lift reaches the top.

the devil robot is holding him up by his head as bender is starting to worry, then he is thinking whist the devil robot is laughing and detaches his leg joint, the leg then moves behind the devil robot, kick him in the back.

the devil robot is stuned, he loses his balance, he trips over the edge, releases bender and falls to his death, or so you think.

idea 2:

Bender the robot is at home resting on the couch drinking a beer and flicking through the TV stations, when out of no where, the devil robot walks through the door.

bender looks at him with surprise

The devil robot then pulls out a piece of paper and a pen, leaning towards bender to sign it, it is a contract to join him in hell.

Bender then looks back at his TV and waves an arm at him as if to say " what of it "

the devil robot then looks mad and decides to get benders attention he would play his golden violin,

A shot of bender hearing it and putting his hands to his head, hating it.

This short fused benders anger and reaches towards the devil robot

Both of them in a hand combat, bender trying to get the devil robot out of his house and the devil robot trying to not back down

then the devil robot gets the upper hand and throw bender across the room

bender hitting the wall, soon recovers and then crawled to the left of the screen opposite a window

the devil robot walked up, waving his piece of paper and pen, dominating over him with a evil look in his eyes

bender looking around, spots the window remote to open the window

a shot of the future window sliding up

The devil robot becoming impatient waves the paper in his face

but with a trick up his sleeves, bender gets up and give an evil grin as he opens his body door

A shot of the devil robot looking surprised

A spin activated boxing gloves comes out and knocks the devil robot out the window.

A last shot of bender show off poses.

idea 3.

A first scene of bender first walking into the kitchen, being casual, bender is heading towards the fridge to get his beers

he casually reaches the fridge and opens the door

A shot - benders view, scanning the fridge

seeing no beers until he comes across a note saying " we are out of beer"

Bender angrily closing the fridge turns his head towards the door

The devil robot walks in holding one of bender's beer's, drinking it down

A speech bubble appears " hey that's my beer your drinking " - bender leans towards the devil robot and points at him.

Another speech bubble appears " ow I'm so sorry, but i don't see your name on it" - the devil robot is poised in a laid back state brushing it off.

Bender becomes so mad that he closes his eyes and cringes

the devil robot starts to laugh

Bender then quickly spins his head off and throws it like a boomerang

Bender head aims towards the devil robot spins around knocks the beer can from his hands and benders head goes back to his body and the devil robot can not believe it.

Bender now receiving his head then screws it back on and picks up the rolling can, but finds out there's nothing left

the devil robot now heaving with laughter is on the floor because of his uncontrollable laughter.

Bender then crossly squints at him, then evilly looks down at his crest door, opens it and pulls out a bat

Bender starts to hit the bat against his other hand

The devil robot hears this and stops laughing and looks up at bender in fear.

as the last shot shows bender walking slowly towards the camera where the devil robot is as it fades to black

in the black the last thing to be heard is an anvil sound to imply bender hit the devil robot over the head.

3D Character – Character choices

Listed below are the four characters that i am considering so i can re create in 3ds max - out of the four characters i have decided to go with the Futurama characters - Bender and the devil robot, because there more interesting to work with.

The devil robot will be portrayed as the bad guy and Bender is playing the hero.

Bender:

Bender is also a good character to model in 3ds max for his variety of shapes,and looks like a nice character meaning bender is not just square, he has rounded edges.

He and the devil robot have good eye movements inside their heads, bender's mouth can open but it can only go up and down when he wants to eat something.

His leg design is better being under his body like the rig, but his design is standard being not as detailed as the devil robot.

Devil Robot

Devil Robot from Futurama – a good choice to model as a character in 3ds max because of how he is design, this makes him easy to shape without being to hard to construct, but at the same time having different shapes round his body to make it challenging to work with and he looks like a bad guy.

He design is suited to the 3ds max rig of a human, with slight adjustments to the legs of the rig to stick out the sides of his waste instead of under them, the devil robot is a good choice for design and variety.

Compared to bender, the devil robot has a better mouth feature allowing the model to have a opening and closing mouth.

Patrick Star:

Patrick star is a good example for a 3d model, in his design, being shaped like a human, also having a mouth and facial expressions, the downside is that his round form will be a challenge to make, and his movements are very interesting.

Spongebob:

Spongebob could be a good choice for a 3d character because of his design and because unlike bender and the devil robot, he is good for doing better rigging with more facial expressions, but the down side is that the puppet might not work well because he's to square, the rig will have a lot of space around it.

References:

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3200000/Robot-Devil-futurama-3295374-1280-1024.jpg

http://www.comedycentral.com/press/images/futurama/bender.jpg

http://hdpaperwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SpongeBob-with-logo.jpg

http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100724183920/spongebob/images/3/33/Patrick_Star.svg

Textured buildings + base form of set for Bender and the devil robot

Constrution of the building for Benders and the Devil robot's scene

From my sketch book where i designed my scenery buildings, in 3ds max i have copied the building and designed them for my different scenes , using tools within the side panel to shape and create lots of different building shapes, for example the extrude tool the most and move rotate and scale tools,to complete the building and to add authenticity putting windows etc i used the pro Boolean.

To use less data size in future scenes all the buildings are made from one or two pieces.