New Prop Lorry

The next prop after the lamborghini to be destroyed will be a 3D cel shaded lorry here is a screenshot of me texturing it in Maya and then a rendered image of the final product.

New direction

Upon being informed I will not be able to use my superhero model because it has too much resemblance to Superman I have decided to just make an animation in comic book style of the robot destroying and terrorising a city as making a new model now will simply take too long, I have completed a test animation of the robot destroying a car something which was going to be in the original animation but may not be used in this one just I had already modelled everything, I may put it in as it can be part of the storyline.

 

I made a few sketches of what I wanted the piece to look like.

Starting on the robot and car animation scene

In this scene Superguy has thrown a car at the robot and the robot stops it telepathically and destroys it in mid air here are some early screenshots of what I hope to do with it.

Early development storyboard

Meant to upload this sooner but just sketchy storyboard idea of what I hope the animation will become

Making the first bit of animation

First I made a draft of what I want the title sequence to look like in After Efects, I added a animated lens flare into the title sequence at the end.

To make it more dynamic at the start I used a black solid and a shatter effect to make it feel as though the animation was breaking through into your vision.

I used a lot of colors and animation effects to make the title sequence interesting to the viewer and would grab attention.

 

I decided to make a test animation of my superhero model to see how it might look like in the finished product, I decided to have him flying through the sky and through clouds I made with the cloud effects in Maya.

I wanted it to look like he propels himself forward like in the new Superman trailer an that a sudden turn of pace would affect the environment so I got a smoke effect in green screen to make it seem as if he propels himself through the clouds.

I then used the After Effects plugin keylight to take the green away leaving just the smoke effect.

And the finished product. :)

Comic book cover and Superguy test animation

I'm going to use this as a texture on a 3D model to make it spin as a camera comes towards it for the opening title.. I also animated a test animation of the superhero model to show what the final product might look like I'm just waiting for that to render. Here is a screen capture of the animation process I used clouds and a sky texture of a sphere to get a nice looking sky for the superhero to fly through.

Superhero cel shaded