Yep...THE WASHING MACHINE

For some buzzar reason i seem to have what some people would call an obsession with a household appliance that is known as a washing machine. Because of this "obsession" i decided to model a washing machine in 3D and turn it into a robotic character. Yep...a fully blown walking talking washing machine that can walk about your house and do all your washing for you. Now if you say that ain't cool you so have some thing wrong with you!!!

To explain how i developed this so called "obsession" i was just sitting in front of my computer wondering what i could possible model for fun to kill some time while i wasn't playing golf. So i decided to go to the kitchen and do my common household criminal act and raid the kitchen of any interesting, expensive and naturally delicious food that i would eventually realise that would annoy mother due to the fact that she wouldn't have what she needed to cook dinner that night! but can you really blame me for such an act...I mean come on...im a young active, energetic man who just happens to love eating while going whatever, whether its golf (yes i tend to snack a lot on the golf course...its a physically demanding sport you know! lol), TV, homework, or just mucking around more often than not i'll have something in my hand that is edible, most of the time its fruit...i tell you i just can't walk past a fresh piece of fruit...personally i say thats rather criminal...i know i have a funny interpretation of whats criminal and whats not! yep what can i say, im a crazy bastard!

Anyway back to the story...as i was raiding the kitchen mother came in and asked me to finish my washing as she wanted to do her own. So i went to the laundry and proceeded to complete what i have honestly completely forgotten about, rather normal for me actually. As i was loading the dryer an epiphany struck. Model a character with a washing machine body, and the so called "obsession" was born. I tell you i haven't lived it down yet...a probably never will for that matter.

Yep there is more...I developed my character in a couple of hours and started putting it in crazy poses and crazy other stuff and did further experimentation with it for a couple of day and till i got over it...or so i thought!

Just a quick back story...i also used the basic first character in a animation in my 3D animation class last year in first semester but that was before my multimedia studio.

Last year during my multimedia studio we were presented with an assignment that required us to develop an abstract clock in flash...now this was a couple of week (i think) after i can created my character. Then another epiphany stuck...why now use the washing machine interface to develop a clock...and i thought i turn out pretty good. And then the next assignment came, develop a multi linear narrative...yep i used the washing machine character again! can u blame me?!? i think not!

At this stage i have advanced is body parts a lot further to make him or it (to be far 'or her') to a much more sophisticated look...basically i dramatically improved the modeling of the arms and legs including the hands and feet. Anyways back to the story again...So that would mean that i've used the character in about 3 assignments and this lasted animation for Digital Arts Studio will make 4 but this one isn't my FAULT!!! The assignments was to develop an animation based around post humanism ideas. So the Washing Machine character just seemed to work so well so you can't blame me! Blame Troy my tutor.

So i'll post up my story any images later on!