Maybe someone who worked on similar project could give me some tips. I need to design (create concept), and then model and rig and animate toaster that transforms into robot. So basically transformer. So I have existing toaster model and it need to transform into robot. The biggest problem for me is…

there was a tutorial out there once but it was all in chinese… or some language like that.

oh, with Google translator it might be useful …

Ive been doing lots of robots a while ago… You should dissassemble your toaster into small parts, manufacturing parts, build up a shape out of them, and then link the parts with articulations. The more realistic the articulations, the better (if realistic is the look you’re after). The animation …

U also need 2 righs if my memory is correct. 1 for animation 1 for transformation, U have to rig the transformation rig to animation one so u can separetly control time and lenght of transformation and then use animation rig for animating it. Its like designing 3 Right character. U have IK right , F…

cyrille32 did you design all of this parts and how it will disassemble on paper? Or you played with already build 3d model?

Its not very hard to design these yourself, you can google search images of factory robots, motorcycles and such to get an idea of the joints and mecanisms you need. It’s easier to play with them already in 3d, as they have to fit your dissassembled toaster, and some of the articulations might rota…

it was a video tutorial. it was for this

I think for the sake of sanity, a lot of those parts just simply disappear once they move behind something. To me it just does not make sense to “make” all those parts work. I would just make sure my main shapes worked and the secondary ones would animate/scale/hide behind other objects.

yup. thats how they do it in the q7 animation. a lot of hiding

http://transfer.joconnell.com/forums/Aib\_savings\_03.mov as an example and the scene is at http://transfer.joconnell.com/forums/Aib\_savings\_03.zip - lots of rotation, animated extrusions and not too much scaling. It’s the really early stages of it but it might give you some ideas.

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