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#StarWars #Autodesk #lucasfilm
Autodesk and Lucasfilm created a droid making contest back on May 4th.
The rules were to use Maya to model, rig and animate a droid for the Star Wars Universe in only one month and show it in only 8 seconds. The judges selected my entry as the Animated Droid Category winner!
Check out the contest here https://www.instructables.com/contest/autodesk-droid-maker/animated/#droids
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Star Wars backstory:
Designed and forged by the Dark Lord himself, this droid’s purpose was to seek and collect Kyber crystals throughout the galaxy. The Kyber Raiding Droid (KR-D7) is an amphibious one, capable of retrieving Kyber crystals both in water and on land. Darth Vader created the droid after the destruction of the first Death Star. The Empire needed to find and retrieve any and all Kyber Crystals they could find to power the next Death Star. To aid in that task the droid was equipped with the following:
- An abdomen to store 7 Kyber Crystals at a time.
- Front arms capable of extension for easy mining and retrieval.
-Legs with suction that attach to the Kyber Crystal and withdraw the energy inside when they are too large to store.
- Antennae on top of its head are able to trace the energy signature of any Kyber Crystal within a 100 mile radius, even underwater.
-A roll down support for the abdomen to carry the load when the Kyber Crystal compartment is full.
-8 eyes around the top allow the droid to see in all directions, especially useful when navigating through the water. The eyes are equipped with a thermal filter for detecting enemies as well as the Kyber Crystals.
-Side flashlight for extra illumination.
-8 highly flexible legs that allow the droid to climb virtually any type of terrain and also swim underwater.
-The Kyber Crystal energy tends to leave a bluish radioactive trace on the KR-D7
All Droid animation, modeling, rigging, texturing, shading, lighting, rendering and SFX by me.