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. 

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