Big Draw: The Apocalypse

Well hardly, just a giant robot rampaging a town. Although that would raise my eyebrow nonetheless.

I thought you would like to see some progress on the Big Draw brief that I've been working on with Ashleigh and Callum. We're breezing through it quite well, I reckon! We made it easier by deciding what parts of the animations we could work on individually. For example, I have been working on animating the giant robot rampaging through the town.

I did change the design of one character though because it was a tad hard for us to figure out how it worked. Hopefully that child won't kick our rumps too terribly hard. I need it for sitting.

Banana Strawberry pet known as Bappel. Ah, the things kids come up with...
Wish I had that sort of imagination at their age.

Callum has taken to animating that character, as well as a scientist. I'm unsure if he'll share the scenes while they're still in progress. Hopefully you'll be able to see it once it's complete. It'll be screened at the Big Draw festival I believe.

Anyway, onto the robot. The reference I was given by one of the kids at the drawing club in Darlington was this:

Artwork by... the kid that drew this.
I need to get their name, I suck.

Which led to the asset being this. I wanted to keep it as close to the original drawing as possible, although I'm assuming the left arm isn't permanently like that and is just posing in combat mode. Pure BAMF mode right there!

Hopefully they won't be too disappointed.

And here we have some frames of the robot in action. It wasn't specified what the robot's powers are (although maybe the retractable hand is a definite according to the original drawing) so I made a few things up, such as the levitating and glowing.

That little boy doesn't seem to be afraid! Maybe he can see that
the robot just needs some lo-

... ah. Never mind.

To anyone who's been following me for a while, you MIGHT recognise the little boy from one of my previous college projects. *coughstretchandscarecough*

Anyway, that's all I have to show you at the moment. I need to tweak the lip sync in the first part of the sequence and add a 'five seconds later' card and stitch the two together. And then animate a quick little part with the boy again. And then the separate robot rampage will be ready to stitch up with the other scenes. Can't wait to see them all together!

As of right now, I'm going to throw a small video together because why the hell not.