Ideas
Decided to create a pair of robotic legs. Inspired in part by Iron Man in design. Cityscape scene seemed obvious and fitting as well.
Modelling
Because of the complicated layers and armor, modelling took quite a bit of time. Made heavy use of the Extrude tool to create the armor layers. Would have been better off creating armor seperately and then parenting it.
Rigging
Following tutorial made rigging easy enough. Paint-weighting however was not a simple task, and legs don't look completely solid.
Texturing
Wanted to keep the design simple, so I used some simple materials. Used Phongs because of their metallic sheen. Also gave a blue color to make them more heroic.
Animating
Proved to be harrowing to begin with because I couldn't animate a walk cycle properly. Wasn't until I figured out I had to move the knee joints forward that I actually got somewhere.
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