3D-Mello: 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Villain: The Black Wing

Here it is, completed! My new Villain, The Black Wing, harnesses the powers of his fat bird minions to do his dirty work for him. His greatest enemies are ninjas, which he despises.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

In another class I'm taking this term, I've decided to incorporate some very basic animation into some live footage for my final video project. The idea is that the object being superimposed into the footage will pulse in sync to the music being played, and will slowly float and rotate around in the scene while everything else is sped up. Here's a work in progress video on my attempts to get the animation and merging just right. Tell me what you think!

Floating cubes WIP from David Mellor on Vimeo.

My Little Bad Guy

So I got the words "Birds" and "Ninjas" for my Villain. Basically, he'll be like a Falconer, but maybe with Pigeons or some other annoying bird, and he's hating on ninjas. He's more of a criminal mastermind that hides behind his legions of bird minions attacking ninjas. Man, what a hater :C

Ironman

I do realize that there are some differences between the film “Ironman” and the comic by the same name, despite the two containing the exact same characters. For the sake of not confusing anyone, my short analysis on Ironman is based off the character portrayed by Robert Downy Jr., in the 2007 film.

On the outside, Ironman is a super-sleek flying robot that can shoot fireballs from it’s hands and can fly. However, the real hero is on the inside, and the robot is no robot at all, but in fact a high-tech suit worn by Anthony Stark. Unlike other superheroes such as superman or batman, who prefer to keep their daily lives separate from their lives fighting crime, Tony has no problem with openly exposing his newly created alias. After all, he already has a reputation as one of the brightest inventors in the modern world.

Tony’s strength doesn’t come from the metal suit on it’s own. In fact, Stark’s true superpower is his unparalleled intelligence. Its this genius level of intellect that allowed him to continue his father’s business in developing weapons and devices, as well as his first of many ironman prototypes in a cave, with a box of scraps. The first ironman suit was created while terrorists in the Middle East held him captive. Infuriated that his own weapons were being sold to killers, he set out to destroy his creations as well as the terrorist base in his iron suit, instead than using those same parts to build the weapons demanded by the terrorists. Once he returns home, the suit continues to evolve in it’s design and features, whilst it’s owner remains exactly the same. In this sense, the suit is represented as the superhero’s iconic “cape”, a symbol of justice, rather than the being itself.