Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Hugo's Tool Kit

I decided to design a toolkit for Hugo to work on his spacecraft and around the campsite with. Mainly, it will be on the landing gantry with him to supplement his lance. The tool kit will hold large tools in a magnetic suspension field so that in zero gravity, you can just put the tool in the field to 'dock' it. The tool box has a rotary inner barrel that has six magnetic suspension fields for tools. You can select which tool you want by just pressing a button and the rotary inner barrel will rotate to the selected tool.


Monday, July 16, 2012

Wute Retopolization

I had to retopolize the Wute for efficient/ease-of-animation sake. I think he looks a bit better. I made his toes a little thinner for grasping surfaces and a little longer so that he could jump more naturally, like a kangaroo.

Monday, July 9, 2012

Whew! Finally rigged landing gear/airlock gantry

Hello everyone,
I haven't posted in quite some time. My wife's been in the hospital going on three weeks now. Very serious stuff. I'd been staying in hotel rooms to be near her. Now that she's out of some of the worst of it, I've transitioned back to our apartment.

Since I've been back home, I started working on Vast Space again in an attempt to take my mind off of everything for a while. To that end, I have taken the rigs for the landing gear and the airlock gantry and combined them into the main model. I'll probably post a test movie soon to show how everything looks in motion, but for now, here's a photo of everything extended.