Rowsby
03-23-2004, 11:53 PM
I hope this is okay... I consider R2 to be a character and not just a piece of hardware; even though he's a bit of both...
I joined an R2 builder's club to access blueprints of the droid's construction to ensure better accuracy in the construction phase. All of his panels have a gap tollerances, and edges were eased to pick up light better.
A radiosity bake was used as the basis for the UV maps and were hand grunged up in Photoshop to help dirty his surfaces down.
DV footage was taken in Vasquez Rocks, tracked, than R2's elements were adding using DFX+.
Artoo was built, animated & rendered in Lightwave 7.5. The animation is located at: http://www.rowsby.com/Anim_R2D2_R1.html
I joined an R2 builder's club to access blueprints of the droid's construction to ensure better accuracy in the construction phase. All of his panels have a gap tollerances, and edges were eased to pick up light better.
A radiosity bake was used as the basis for the UV maps and were hand grunged up in Photoshop to help dirty his surfaces down.
DV footage was taken in Vasquez Rocks, tracked, than R2's elements were adding using DFX+.
Artoo was built, animated & rendered in Lightwave 7.5. The animation is located at: http://www.rowsby.com/Anim_R2D2_R1.html