[ZiG]

hey all,
this is what i've been working on. it's a robot camera the size of a racket ball. it has two states, a sphere and floating anti-gravity camera thing. it stays in the sphere form to get shipped around in those vaccuum tubes like banks have. when it comes out of the tube at its destination it pops open and then floats around the room filming. its for a short live action film for school.



and if you have the divx/mpeg codec installed here's a short animation showing it transform from one state to the other:

http://www.gametome.net/portfolio/Animation/floaty-portfolio.avi

Thanks,
Ryan

if your really bored and want to watch a wierd college film (warning: big dload) it can be found at (disclaimer: all of the rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, and editing for this was done in a sleepless 24 hour stretch to make a deadline..):

ftp://www.gametome.net/web.zip

[ May 25, 2001: Message edited by: ZiG ]

[ZiG]

heh thanks
-Ryan

[Fate]

Sure, make a metallic sphere and call it a robot.
Sorry, I was expecting to see a giant mech with...oh you know, arms, legs, and a head would be nice too.

Why don't you make your robot a core and design a totally new robot around it

[edible snowman]

yes and why don't we make all robots the same so we squash different ideas. everything doesnt need to be a huge mech with arms and legs, it would get boring.

[Bombesei]

amen edible snowman !

[ZiG]

thanks edible snowman. this is just something i did quick for a friends film project. i thought it was kinda neat so i posted it for you guys to see. The director asked me to make it a sphere and that it have a camera. woot

-Ryan

[KiNgStiNg]

muahahah that thing is just so CUTE!@