Hi all,
Thought I start a blog here to share a little project I am working on and hopefully gain some feedback. Below you see a few
wip sculpts of some robots I am currently working on.
At first I just wanted to learn how to sculpt. I've always loved robots with a cartoonesque edge to them and the first guy above just rolled out of my hands. I quickly realised I was having so much fun doing them that idea after idea started popping up in my mind for all sorts of different sized and styled bots! Then shortly after, I had thought up a whole world where they live in and how they came to be the way they are. Here's just a little intro so you get the main idea.
Reboot
The short of it is that earth, in some distant future, has been mostly abandoned by humans. Most of earth's resources supposedly spent and it's surface wracked by war and natural disasters they have left for the stars. Not able to take everything with them they have left behind many things. Goods, vehicles and many a kind of deactivated robots left to their own. Sometimes well stored and sometimes left away to rot. Skip a few decennia/centuries, a world in decay and yet slowly miraculously healing itself. A strange phenomenom is occuring and every now and then a dormant laying robot is being awakened almost as if its former owners have returned and simply switched them back on. It's internal programs and directory rebooting and its powersource replenished and brimming with energy. No longer being mere automatons however, something has changed. No more mere cold calculating machines incapable of feeling and who lack emotions. It was almost as if they had gained something. Something like a soul, causing some of them to experience 'feelings' such as empathy and giving but also hatred and craving of power. A mix of emotions almost akin to to those which their former masters have felt. They have evolved, rising above their original programming and capabilities and their self awareness making them each an unique individual. These Awakened start out as nomads. Venturing out into the unkown and discovering a dangerous world in search of materials they need to survive (think of replenishing their batteries, repairing damaged parts, etc) and others of their kind to band together with, living up to the 'old strength in numbers' in order to survive. Scavengers who use everything they find to protect them against any other who might want to cause them harm (or to cause harm to others!) and against the elements. The reason I am giving them clothes and such for example is to give them a bit of an unique feeling. Making them even closer to humans for example?
I think it might make a cool little skirmish game with small groups of robots acting out all sorts of scenarios. Battling each other over grounds, searching for materials, locating and adding a new found Awakened to the group, etc, etc... The group would exist out of whatever robot you fancy putting in there with different classes and types being available. (small, medium, heavy, etc) Mix in other 'human' elements such as good, neutral & evil and others and I think it might make a fun and interesting game/background.
Anyhoo, this blog will mainly be about the sculpting of the bots and I hope to have some valuable feedback and such! If it's all rubbish you can say so too!
