Martian Explorers

Explorer bot P-117 was created for an animation college project focused on 3D mechanic character animation. Its an automated bot designed for martian exploration.

For this project, I took special care about the narrative surrounding the character and setting to make design choices for the character. For example, the robot is meant to be worn and heavy, since its a heavy duty exploration bot, and this is reflected by the wear and dirtiness of the textures, and the stiffness and mechanical bounce of its movement.

The character itself is imagined as a heavy bot that traverses difficult martian terrain by pulverizing and moving obstacles, hence the big piston arms and bulky appearance.

The bot itself was modeled in zBrush and animated in Maya, but the completed scene was built on Unreal.