For my CS project have to choose one character from the
story her room and the Sea of stories the character I chose to was the hop-o. The
reason for this choice was because of the main characters connection to this
character and also this character’s attitude towards the other characters
within the box. Also because he is technically a robot which I felt had
interesting design points that I could exploit. At start this project I decided
to look into other robots and Robotics creatures to hopefully gain some ideas
into what I wanted my character to look like.
The first example of robots that are came across was the
terminators from the movie franchise terminator. I went to these first to get a
look of how robot like humans would look like and how true this film they have
tried to replicate a human in robotic form. Here is an example picture of one
of these robots.
An interesting feature about the robots that I find
appealing is that the frame of the robot is set out like a skeleton with the
muscle type areas being made up of pistons and joints to build up the robots
frame.
Were looking more deeper into robots I came across a film
called I robot which is a more modern take on the robotic form comparing this
one to the terminator they fleshed out the robots in a way that made them feel
more human here is an example of one of the robots from the film.
I prefer this example to the terminator film because of the
fleshed out appearance at this robot has and it’s something I can try and aim
for with my character design when I come to make it. I think one of the main
reasons that this character seems to be less threatening than the terminator is
because of the shape of the character. As in this article
The article mainly states that when designing characters
sharp jagged edges tend to replicate danger and hostility while soft edges tend
represents kindness and I think that it’s fairly apparent within these two
examples. For example the robots from my robot has a very smooth sleek design
and also a human face and this gives them a less threatening locks and say the
terminator which features a lot more jagged edges. This is certainly a feature
at the line, have to do consider when designing my characters as it will help
me distinguish whether this character is a friend of four up so without
explaining.
The research I looked into of creature similar to the
one on design this creature is Songbird from the game Bio shock Internet the
reason that it appeals to me so much is because of its design of part machine
part bird here is an example picture of the animal
Though this creature in its design is more steam punk I
still find it overall concept to be extremely interesting. This is almost a
direct lock that I would like my character to look like and even the character
songbird is similar to the hoopoe in its purpose as it is the protector of
Elizabeth in bio shock the hoopoe is almost like a protector of herrun within
the Sea of stories. I think with my design I Wanna keep it similar to this
character but not in terms of the steam punk aspect I would like to create an
either modernised version or are almost mediaeval concept as I feel that the
hoopoe belong in sort of time.
Design I’m really starting to find interesting is a kind of
cross between a old-fashioned gliding aircraft and that of an eagle mainly
because from my perception of the book it’s almost like the hoopoe was a
old-fashioned robot that was organic but also mechanic in nature but not
advanced like some of the robots or even the songbird and this why feel that my
hoopoe should be an old-fashioned kind of robot
As for the organic side of the hoopoe I wanted his frame or
skeleton if you will to be that of an eagle as eagles are almost kings of the
sky just like hoopoe is and also because of how majestic the eagle is in its
flying. Why would hopefully like to do is take the frame of the eagle and add
in almost like robotic adjustments to show that he is both organic and mechanic
this way it will keep the best of both having his form other majestic eagle or
his structure as a mechanic
Summary:
from the research of summarise that I would like to design
an eagle type bird with almost old-fashioned robotics not similar to steam punk
but more old-fashioned in comparison. I’d really like to do this by replacing
certain muscle structures within the bird will almost an artificial structure
similar to the ones in the terminator and I robots robot.
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