Old Decrypted House Assignment

Design a Old  Decrepit House 

Design and model a old decrepit house that is alone or abandoned.
The silhouette design of the house is extremely important and should read with multiple roof structures elevating above one key primary roof. The use of dormers, multiple leveled roofs, cross angled roof lines and steeples well help to define an interesting silhouette shape. A historical design influence of old  decrypted/ haunted  houses can be examined by researching Victorian house structures.

Design elements to considers..
Old chimneys, round windows, Odd shaped windows, old bare trees, exhaust pipes coming from the rough line, brick walls, graveyard, old porch, old fountain, wishing well (water source), gazebo, house on a hill, stacked stone columns with lights on them,  old wooden steps, old Victorian lights, parts of the house tilting/ falling apart, shed, entry doors to basement,  contrapposto (counter angles) roof lines and walkways.

Demos

Planning with reference

Planning and modeling parts of the house

Stylization of the House Model- Step 1 & 2

Lighting Basics in Maya.

Stylization of the House Step 3 & Step 4

Using Fog in Maya

Preparing to Print

My Old House...

Michael Johnson Old house-

Other reference...

 

This is too bare and empty..not a good idea!

 

Victorian reference for you..

Assignment #2 Robot build

Assignment Guidelines- Design and build a robot. This robot will have 2 arms, 2 legs, a head, a core body. It can also have some type of protective armor, shell, or plating.

-Establish a theme for your robot that will help guide you in the design process.( Think about mimicking nature or animals to enhance your design.) Follow these 2 design guidelines below.

Good Ideas

 A  good idea would be to create a friendly companion, or robot that could be used inside a story, or feature film.

 Bad Ideas

A transformer- everyone has already seen that design!

Fully Armored Battle Droid with guns- already seen it!

Macrosse, or Robotech droid- already seen it!

Battle droid- needs to be unique and different, something we have not seen before. Perhaps a recon droid in the shape of a insect, and body of an animal.

1st- Where is your robot from?- is your robot for humans, or aliens. The design of the body parts would reflect the civilization that it is from.

2nd- What is your robot used for? -is it used for factory work, for clearing mines, under the ocean, mining on mars, for battle- is it air force, infantry, heavy infantry. Considering all these aspects will help your in developing a stronger design.

Some reference for you-
Scott Robertson 

http://conceptrobots.blogspot.com/ 

This guy is great! Look at thew empathy and character that is displayed with this design!

Notice the use of animal and insect shape language used to create these designs.

Insect

Gorilla 

 Crab

 

Crab and insect!

 Human body, bug like head, and grass hopper legs!

 

Insect meets quadruped!

  

Start with small thumbnail designs!