TABARY THOMAS- Rookies Entry 2024 - Bender Transformation

Hi, here is one of the projects I worked on during my 3rd year at ESMA. 

This school project was initially a Compositing Exercise. It was about making the transition in between different textures. 

I chose to work on Bender from Futurama and to depict its transformation from a rusty metal texture to a damaged golden one. 

Here are below the researches I made for the project. 

I was responsible for all aspects including Modeling, Texturing and Shading, Rigging, Animating and Compositing. 

Here are the two textured turns that I made for the transformation. 

I first used Maya, Renderman, Mudbox and NukeX later for Compositing. 

Here is the wireframe turn of the Modeling. Since I wanted to add a jump to the transformation, I paid proper attention to the topology for the Rigging part so I could animate it for the transition. 

And here is the final result of the project.

As said before, I did the compositing part on NukeX. It was quite a challenge to try to make the transition work smoothly around the eyes so it would follow the volume of the lids nicely. 

Thank you for your attention.