Little Roomba Robot Friend

Shelbiathan

I've always loved the little robot vacuums that vroom around on the floor, being able to sense their surroundings, terrorizing the house pets.
I see them as cool little dudes with little faces, sucking up dust and keeping the indoors-y company, and I'm going to hard surface model the picture that I have in my head when I think "cute ass v-Roombas".

Eventually my little guy will have a digital face, and get rendered out in PBR.

Here's the shape I've modelled and have been working with.



The model I'll be creating will be used in an office scene that my partner is currently creating.

Shelbiathan

Quick test render in Marmoset, just to see if everything was clean. Yet to add a few buttons, knick knacks to the base, before I add all the cute stuff.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Just as an idea for the final beauty render: try grabbing the arch vis levels off of Unreal Marketplace and do your shots there.  I think it will definitely help them pop out.

OR, for kicks and giggles, do it in a completely contrasting environment like the Infinity Blade environment assets from the Unreal Marketplace.

Shelbiathan

Thanks fam, it's gonna be an asset for a bigger piece so hopefully I can grab a quick render from that scene, but that would be hilarious having just a little roomba in some big ass battle scene, cleaning up some guts.

Shelbiathan

The personality I want to convey, is one similar to M-O from Wall-E. "Must... clean..." The digital display where the eyes are located, show so much emotion from just two lines and I want to emulate this level of emotion in my roomba's personality.

Shelbiathan

To do a face or nah?