Development
Storyboard-
Having decided on an idea it was time to block out a storyboard to start thinking about cinematics of shots and how the short would flow. this was also the stage where i could cut out any shots I deemed less necessary in order to save on time and animation while still preserving the story. This ended up being only 2 shots, a sweep across autobot city and the decepticons running thro
Optimus Prime Model-
The artstyle for this project was inspired by Charlotte on Sketchfab
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/optimus-prime-2fb4fd3344004519a913dcc25dc5a472
Early on I used a placeholder based heavily on her design however for cartoon accuracy I made my own design.
Supporting Characters-
These are the Remaining characters in the cinematic, I rigged them all to a Mixamo skeleton to use their library of animations to streamline the process. Unfortunately none of them transform however I left as much kibble as possible to give the appearance that they could.
Mixamo Rig fit to Soundwave-
I weight painted all of the characters manually however this was easy as all of the pieces were weighted at 100% to their bone
1st scene Asset Zoo-
As I made almost the entire cinematic from scratch I needed full environments to use. I made these modularly but as simple pieces as possible working off a 2m grid.
The Ark-
The Autobots Spaceship is seen in the background of several shots so I mocked up a pretty simple model of it.
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