the final product.....

robot beginnings.....

Landscape

The pavement/sidewalks images on the side helped me create the design for this piece. I could have added more props to the piece but I didn’t want the surroundings to be too realistic, I want the surroundings to be quite cartoony and non-serious to help boost my characters believability as a childish robot

Storyboard

Final Design

As you can see I chose the middle design robot as the main basis for the final design. I also incorporated some parts from the other two robots above to make the final design that much more robotic.

Initial Ideas

Here are a couple designs of mine. I designed quite a few to give me a variation of what parts and pieces I could apply to my final designed robot. Along the design process I realised that the cute simple robots that I designed are not only the easiest to create but also fit the role of my story, as the character must look rather innocent and naive to pull the story off.

Influences

Most of my designs are influenced by Japanese robots; most of the structures within my designs are mirrored from them. To me they seem best because they’re rather basic in their design and not too jagged around the surfaces, they are usually roundish is most parts, which to me seems easier to animate.

Of Bots and Banana- 'Avoiding Bad Luck'- Robot Animation

Story outline- The outline of this story is about a robot who is trying to avoid bad luck, hence the name of the title ‘Avoiding Bad Luck’. During the start of the story the robot is walking down a road when he stumbles upon a load of broken pavements. The robot knowing that the broken pavement slabs are supposedly bad luck he decides to avoid them by jumping in-between them and landing on the good ones in a hopscotch manner. When he finally reaches the end he turns back to look back on his achievement. He then walks back in the other direction he was walking in before all cocky to only completely miss a banana on the pavement and slip and fall on his bottom. The story then ends with the banana on his head and him on his bottom looking towards the screen gutted.