Here's the second concept I've put together, showing the bottom of the gigantic container. It's always good to put out some detailed concepts for a video piece so there's a kind of blue-print for the colour scheme and detail involved with the final product.

I've started the concepts by trying to get the look of the first tracking shot. I'm going to try and impress heavily the stark contrast between the bottom of the shaft and the top - spilling out in to nature.

Opening Test 1

An idea I had for the opening shot to the teaser. I'd like to point out that the music in this snippet is from the fantastic 'The Social Network' and will not feature in the final product in any way. I merely wanted a neat, digital sounding track to accompany the footage!

Storyboard

I've pieced together a pretty simple storyboard here. The plan is to make a 'Teaser' trailer of sorts introducing the world these robot's inhabit. 

I'll be putting together more animation tests and pieces of concept art together for the next few posts.

Animation test 1

After figuring out the design for the character, I'll go through some simple animation
tests to see how the design works in motion.

I feel pretty happy with the way Ro-Buddy's design handles the exasperated sigh
I animated him with.

Final Designs

 

I developed the two robot characters in my favourite Adobe programme - Photoshop. I use a combination of metal textures and hand illustrated elements to put the characters together.

Design Choices

Here's the two main robots I chose from all the sketches I did. Simple and clunky!

Robot Sketches

This is how it started out! I went to the drawing pad with abandon and sketched rubbish looking robots until I was happy I'd found a couple I liked. There were many, many more pages than this but I felt this was a good summary.

I'd like to point out that this idea initially started out on a great character design job at my current place of work Twist Media. I made a whole bunch of designs which included a few robot characters and hey presto! An idea was born.