Navy 2015 Our Everyday is Defending Yours
Here is the main project that I was involved in for the last 2 months (amidst other smaller and shorter projects). The Navy 2015 recruitment video / corporate branding video / TV commercial has been released. My work is solely around 1:55 and 1:59 in this edit of the video, the robots and weapons. There are 2 main mechanical characters: The hero robot and the mechanical spider. Both the hero and spider robots were acquired from an asset store. From there I did quite a bit of modification to the geometry before they could be rigged. Aesthetically I had to modify some parts so the shape of the robot fits art director's requirement of fierce, steadfast and battle-worthy looking. I had to do a lot of modeling and modifying especially for the weapons, his head and visor, and missile mounts on his shoulders too. Technical fixes when dealing with the model involved conforming face normals, cleaning up and simplifying the models too. This involved grouping the parts into meaningful