Sketchbook: Michael Taylor

TaylorAnimated

So this will be a bit different, since I'm doing some more technical work :P mostly some rigging and scripting. I'll try to keep the pictures as pretty as I can. I've been a slacker for a while, but have gotten back into the swing of things.

I started off with a few robots that were modeled and proceduraly textured by a current student of my 3D course at Humber college. Here is the first one, Dudley.



He hasn't been animated yet but will be once his friends are done.

Another student asked for this giant mecha spider tank thing to be done for this Monday so I whipped it up in a few days. I've been having some trouble figuring out IK with so many unidirectional joints, but I think the end result is pretty snazzy.



I should be able to finish off Dudley's friend Scout today.

I'm always welcome to compliments and critiques! Helps with the motivation

Stubbs

Nice work. The mecha spider is especially impressive.

TaylorAnimated

Thanks! Dudley has similar IK controls, I originally just make him full FK, but the modeler asked for IK controls to make it easier to animate. It took me some fanegling to figure out how to do it on him but with some help he can now even Hoola Hoop! I'm going to try and pop up a vid of him working his hips tonight. Figuring that out helped immensely when I moved on to the mecha spider, and his buddy Scout that I'll hopefully finish tonight, who has an extra knee, causing extra headache.

I can't wait to see what animations come of Dudley and Scout, their owner Stephen Gibson http://www.ssgibson.ca/ is also an awesome animator.

TaylorAnimated

Here is the third robot I finished recently. He's one of 2 companion to Dudley.

Again these aren't my renders or models or textures, those were handled by Stephen Gibson http://www.ssgibson.ca/ I did the character rigging and will hopefully have an animation of them soon to show that off better.

noniol

Very cool work sir! :]

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I figured I should toss this up here. I made a tutorial to explain why and how to overlap UVs utilizing the auto tiling of textures. The problem happens when you overlap UVs in the main UV area, and then try to bake textures to it from the scene.

It's a pretty big image, yee be warned.