notes from underground

On sunday night I was browsing through NoForSeriously.com and found this picture, apparently fanart for something called Popbot. I loved the drawing, and even though the link to the Popbot website was down I used it as an excuse to begin a side project and brush up my Maya skills a bit. By the end of the night I had rendered this:

and just tonight I finished rigging him for basing animation. There are a lot of things I need to work out, and I need to change his head, make the eyes light up, add eye controls and clean up the controls I already have. Here’s the quicktime movie I rendered from Maya, sorry for the low quality but I was having trouble compressing it properly (it’s about 450 kilobytes):

“Dudebot” Animation Sequence 1: Standing Up