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Historical inspirations

A bipedal, armless robot with an inverted ball joint, designed, modeled, and animated. The robot is capable of performing several animation loops depending on its purpose and environment:

  • Idle
  • Walk
  • Fire
  • Side fire

Giant ground war robot. Inspired by the US Navy’s MK 47/6”, MK 38/5” triple turrets and 16” (406 mm) guns.

Turret 5"/38 (12.7 cm) Mk 12
USS Valley Forge (CV-45). Twin 5"/38 (12.7 cm) Mark 32 - 1949

Mk 6"/47 (15.2 cm) turret
Triple turret of the light cruiser USS Savannah (Brooklyn class)

16"/45 Mark 6 (40.6 cm) gun
Turret of the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57)

Video

Project Biped : Land Battleship

Animation

The robot was animated in 3ds Max using the IK limb solver. A control panel was created to manipulate and animate each part of the robot: feet, legs, body, rotation of the main and secondary turrets, elevation of the main and secondary cannons, and recoil of the cannons.

The animations were generated using frame-by-frame rendering with the V-Ray engine. The textures were created using Megascan and V-Ray.

Software used:

  • 3Ds Max
  • Vray
  • Adobe After Effect
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
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