IDEA:
Because I have been exposed to robots since I was a child, and then I especially like the Transformers movie, so I want to make a Transformer of my own in the last project, and the Transformer I do like is Bumblebee, so I made a Transformer of my own Ferrari model based on Bumblebee in the holiday.
Background:
A group of aliens are secretly harvesting Earth’s energy in a desert in the middle of nowhere on Earth, and our nearby bunker sends the Transformers to investigate.
Storyline:
In my mind, the door to the bunker opens and a car drives out, there’s a road in the sand, and the car drives on it, I wanted to create the effect of the car driving during the day and at night, then the car drives to the top of the mountain (At first, the model has a new texture, and when it reaches the top of the mountain, I’ll change it to an old texture.), starts to change into a robot, discovers the aliens’ base, and starts to get ready for the next move， I’ll probably build robots to fire cannonballs to destroy the alien base later.
For this project I think I’m going to base it on maya, houdini, nuke, pr and so on.
Art style
Bumblebee
Patrol robots
Car driving in the desert
Bunker
I’ve downloaded an alien base scene, but I’ll be replacing the downloaded building with one I’ve made myself.
Transformer
I made this Transformer, Firstly I downloaded a model of a Ferrari from the internet, Then found a tutorial video on how to make a Transformers Bumblebee, and then went about breaking down the car model as well as animating it according to the video.I learned a few things from this tutorial video, for example, when making Transformers you can use two sets of models and show or not show them with keyframes; when a car transforms you can not show the inside of the car and then show the arms and legs of the robot. I made a portion of the model’s materials as well as textures.
Here’s the Transformers transformation animation
Patrol robots
This is the robot I made and animated（I took apart and put back together some of the models I had previously made, then animated them as well as material mapping them）
In my vision I’d have patrol robots going back and forth across the alien base, or add some more animation of scanning objects
Problem
But at the moment I don’t have any specific ideas about lens. I only found a few CG videos to go by for reference. I have another question, I think if the final video is mainly about driving the car, but it will be imbalance, how do I go about animating the car after it turns into a robot？