Vast Space Movie Poster

Hello Everyone!,
I'm sorry I haven't posted in some time. My wife has finally begun swiftly recovering from her health issues and I can start (slowly) ramping up production on "Vast Space".

Firstly, I think I've finally decided to give the project it's final name, "Vast".

Here is a poster that I've been playing with that gives an intentionally misleading darker tone to the short:

 

I have many more poster ideas to come.

 

Thank you for all the prayers for me and my family. She's doing so much better.

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.

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.

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.

New Landing Gear

It's been a while since i've posted. I started work on the new Spartan-Flower's landing gear. It looks a bit more sturdier, easier to rig (and animate), plus it has shock absorbers which SHOULD work - don't know how I'll rig 'me yet, but I'll figure that out on the other side.

The Spartan-Flower seems to be coming together as a model and rig quite well.

SpartanFlower Landing Gear Update

I tentatively rigged the landing gear for the SpartanFlower, but unfortunately there are several problems, principle among them is the design. It looks too flimsy to support the 'Flower's weight. Another problem is that when unfolded, the gear barely reaches the ground and it doesn't have enough room for the shock absorbers to take effect. Oh well, back to the drawing board!

Airlock/Gantry Rigged

I rigged up the airlock/gantry for the Spartan-Flower. I may add a winch to the platform portion so that the entire thing doesn't have to come down. I didn't texture anything yet. I call this airlock/gantry system, "The Plank."