2/26/10

Introduction to Maya - Biped Robot

This week we were given the assignment to model up our robots. Naturally, I tried to get a head start on it, knowing that I am stickler for details. I have to say that I could probably sit and model all day long... because that is what I wound up doing on this guy. There are lots of little details in there that I worked out and I tried to keep him as close to the original design as possible. I'd say I did a decent job of that:


He's also set up right now in a way that you can move certain parts (like the upper part of his arm) and the rest down the line will follow it. This is what I love doing, so this assignment was fun.

I'm stumped as to what to name him. Any suggestions?

7 comments:

  1. The name needs to be right, something short with about three letters and unique. Tag or Nik or something along those lines... Or a long complicated name with a cool
    Acronym.

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  2. Burford. Scruffy. Bonzo. Descartes. Pascal. Brigham. Nat. Polycarp. Ulysses. Rusty. Chrome Dome. E-Zee (for Easy Rider.) Buchanan. Wilkes. Barre. Otis. Sousa. Napoleon. Sawyer. Ute. Casanova. Boz. Shadrach.

    I really could think of a thousand names. But I need to stop. I have other things to do. Good job on the great robot!

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  3. How about B.R.A.D.? If he is a Biped Robot you are halfway there.

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  4. Bipedal
    Robotic
    Autonomous
    Device

    Also, "Nick Chopper" was the original name given to the Tin man in Wizard of Oz...

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  5. Ooh, I actually like something akin to Nick Chopper. We'll see. He has to have a Victorian era name.

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  6. I also like Buford, but that's just a nod to an old childhood classic, "Ice Pirates."

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