Fully Rendered start of animation

Due to the change in direction I have made a new start to the animation which now has a different story. The animation will start with the space shuttle of the cyborg and she is being put through tests before continuing onto her conquest of earth. I used Maya and After Effects to make this I used the paint effects and some moody lighting to create the bit of space I am using and all the models in it are green screened into that footage with After Effects.

I decided to keep everything quite simple as I still have a lot to do and wanted to get started on the next animation of the robot.

Screen shots of before and after adding the models in to the footage.

Test Animation 2

New part of animation

I wanted this part of the animation to be more vibrant to show there is more action involved so I used lighter colors and more movement.

I wanted the camera angle to have both models in view from the start but the camera to show more of the cyborgs body than the last animation and I wanted to donate a lot of the screen to the truck to fully show off the model and ensuing explosion. 

Originally I had planned for the laser beam to come from the hands of the cyborg but ended up using the head as I got inspiration from an episode of dragonball where a character does a similar move and I felt that fitted the animation well. 

I wanted the explosion to be colorful and vibrant, unfortunately this explosion effect I made in Maya did not render out properly and I ended up making a different one with particle effects and a fluid emitter and green screening it in to the finished animation.