Animatic

The animatic is now complete!

Screen shots are posted below:






There are still many things I would like to add to this machinima. And it mostly is to do within the chase scene. In the final animation it will contain action moments within the chase such as rock falling, shooting, and crashing.

The animatic is kept well to the proposal except with it's setting. It was mostly because the action in the chase scene I felt was better in the mountains then on a flat terrain.

Overall I feel like I'm going in the right direction with this and will continue to polish. A good reference to what the chase scene might be like is in the Gorillaz music video "Stylo". The setting would obviously be different but the use of camera angles within the music video will be considered for my Machinima.

The Scene

Old Scene

At first I liked the idea of this scene it had two very different contrasts. Desert and Greens. However when looking back at my proposal most of the action is in the driving scenes and when I look back, this scene was kind of boring for action driving so I decided if it ain't going to work start again; and so I did.




New Scene

What I wanted for this new scene was to have hilly roads with bends so it can have some cool drifting and avoidance action. I'm not going to call this the final scene but its a working progress.

Scripting Waypoints

(Red Gismoz) For the character script I created it to allow the user to place waypoints in the scene and allow to it to set its animation to be played and also change the speed of it's movement.

Other cool features i added to this script include, holding time, idle animation, and begin waypoint when triggered.

(Blue Gismoz) The camera script is exactly the same as the animation script however the animation part is removed as well as the start when trigger. Only different thing on this script is the option to allow the camera to move or to skip, making it useful for different cuts.

How these scripts work is fairly easy. For both the character and the camera script they have two separate scripts. One script is attached to the main camera or character and the other scripts is attached to the waypoints. The script attached to the mains has a component where you drag your waypoint into list. In the waypoint script it contains all the options which the user can input, these inputs then get sent to the main script for it to change the character's/camera's variables.

Ute

Created a low poly Ute in which the patrol guard will be driving in.

Bee Model

Created a bee model that will be used in the animatic.

Same process as per usual.

Low Poly



Hi Poly

Character is now Rigged!

The character rig created is quite simple. I used set driven keys for the hands and facial animation and have IK handles on bended joints. To orient knees and elbows I used a simple pole vector constrained to a locator.

Wild Boar

I created a wild boar for my project. The boar is going to be the pest in the machinima.

Workflow is the same as the border patrol guard.

Zbrush > Topogun > Maya

Props

Here are some props created for the project.

Guard Hut


Fence


Boom Gate

Trees

Using Tree[d] (a free program that's even free for commercial use) I created a few trees that will be used in my scene.


For the textures, I gathered some royalty free images off cgtextures.com.

Textured Model

The Model is now textured!



Texture Maps

Low Poly

Finished the low poly version of the character.

Here are the screenshots showing the edge flow of the character.

Retopology Time!

Got started on doing retopology!

Some screenshots below.

Final Sculpt

Here is the final sculpt which is now ready to go to Topogun for retopology.

What's changed is the shirt. Fixed some fabric issues and added the shoulder badge which I almost forgot.

Zbrush Sculpt

Almost finished the sculpting phase on the character.



*Edit*

-Fixed some minor problems with the clothing.
-Added detail to the head

Zbrush sculpt WIP

I began sculpting the border patrol guard in zbrush.

I modeled the clothing in Maya and imported them to zbrush for detailing.

Workflow for character explained

To create the characters I need in this project I follow this particular workflow.

- First I create the male base mesh.

- Then start sculpting in zbrush

- Make any accessories in Maya and import them to zbrush for detailing

- Once sculpt is finish begin retopology

- Unwrap

- Bake Normals and occlusion

- Texture

- Rig

- Animate

Character Concept

Base Mesh

Machinima - Border Patrol Idea

Title: Border Patrol

Genre: Action/Documentary

Characters:

- Security Guard

- Wanted Animal

Inspirations:

- Mexican Border Security

- Wildlife guards that protect conservations from poachers and tree loggers

- Cops (TV Show)

Style:

- Stylized Realism

Setting:

- African Plains

Plot:

Wanted Animal breaks through the border patrol and the security guard is alerted. The chase scene begins sequence. The guard chases the animal in his vehicle while the animal is running as fast as it can road runner style. The animal gets cornered and surrenders to the guard.

Detailed Story:

The border patrol guard tries to fix his TV so he can watch the sports channel. A animal pest is planning a carefully thought out plan to break into the border. There is no food in the outside and wants to cross the border for a better future. The animal sneaks through the border but trips the alarm. The guard snaps into action picking up his weapon and hops into the patrol car. The animal takes notice of the situation and races off to protected territory. Racing to find a hiding spot, the animal comes in contact with the guard. Knowing that there is no going back now the animal continues its run. The guard peeks out of his side window to take a shot but misses the animal. Racing down the dusty roads the animal gets cornered. The guard now on foot gets a steady aim and shoots, making the animal go to sleep. The animal is then thrown back outside of the protected area to live another day.