Pre Production Work 3

In this entry I will be showing the further research and development of concept art that has been done for the robot mech designs.

To start with I continued to research areas that will act as good reference for my designs, and add to my overall image database. I've looked at mechs in TV, specifically in anime for the time being, as there are thousands of designs to look at. For real life I've added the Vehicles section to the image database, and have started to look at construction and military machines, as these will be a key vocal point for concept art work.

Here are the links for websites where I found my images if you wish to look further into the subject areas:

http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gundam_Wiki - Anime mechs
http://www.military-today.com/tanks.htm - Military vehicles
http://www.machinefinder.com/ww/en-US/machine/3411459- Site that sells construction vehicles and has lots of useful images
http://www.trucks-cranes.nl/english/cranes/demag.html - site with image of trucks and cranes

Mechs from Anime, which has a rich variety to use as reference.

Vehicles from Military, which has helped with my mech deisgns.

Vehicles from Construction, which looks at machines such as excavators, diggers and compactors. 

With this to help back up my designs, I also quickly put together a moodboard looking at the different areas of the robot's design that I will need to consider in order to make it as realistic as possible. I feel that with this as a constant reminder I won't stray off into creating overly crazy or non-functional designs for my concepts.

This moodboard shows you the different references and areas that I am considering for my overall art work. 

With this done I've gone on to create two lots of concepts based off the final four robot blockout chosen from the last post entry. Here's a reminder if you haven't looked at them already.

Final 4 robots

I made heavy use of reference from my real life military and construction machine research. I've looked at and referenced their shapes, components and size considerations in order to try and add to the realism of my designs. They particularly came in handy when it came to parts such as lights, caterpillar tracks and armour plating styles.

First lot of concepts

Second lot of concepts

Also through my research I've had to take into consideration what roles each mech would perform. With the different customisable parts I will have to make sure that the basic components can be changed easily. To this end, based of research and consideration moodboard, I've listed and looked at the parts that I have placed into my design for the first batch of robot mechs.

Concepts with notes

At this point I aim to whittle down the selection from 11 designs. Additionally I will create list of 3 job roles in both the Military and Construction industries that I will focus my main design on, which will help to decide on a final look and what changeable parts I will have to create.

So next weeks post will focus further on pre-production work for these designs.