FMP Level 3

Here I am just mood boarding possible ideas of gadgets or vehicles I could design as my final project   as you can see a lot of these are spy gadgets and futuristic designs. 

Here is another mood board but this one is focused on vehicles solely ranging from ATV to armoured vehicles.  

Silhouettes 

The start of my Creation 

Here are some reference sketches of my drone parts as you can see I have a propeller and a wheel design and even a actual sketch of a whole drone. 

My inspiration 

My main inspiration is from the game rainbow six siege which relies on team work and communication and one of the main ways of gaining Intel is from Droning. 

Originally I was going to do a drone which would be used on the ground, but after research I realised I was drawn to having an aerial drone as there is a lot more capabilities. However drones in siege are used for everything from gaining intel to using as a bait for your teammates to get a free kill. they are even used to cover your flank from the enemy.

This is another drone from the game which is my reference, this drone is used for taking out enemy gadgets. 

Other games that use drones

These two drones are from the game Call Of Duty black ops 2, and the quad propeller drone follows you around and helps you kill people or even kills them for you. The second which is the helicopter is an automated attack helicopter which goes around killing people for you.

                                                                                                                                                               This is another game which focuses only on drones and you have all combat using a drone in large
multiplayer maps. This is a new game which looks amazing graphically and game play wise.

This game is called Ghost recon wild lands and is made by the same company which gave me the first reference and that company is Ubisoft. Ubisoft have a common factor in games which they are all about gathering Intel, and this is another game which uses drones to do that very well. 

Artist's

Here is the work of a artist called Charles Lin, he is a concept artist at FZD films and here are two of his creations the first being drone which is what I am doing. The second a jet however I could use some referencing from the jet image for some possible body shapes for the drones.

This is another reference of a artist who has created 3D model of a drone his name is Owain Worsley- Hughes .

This is a very interesting piece from Ben Jelter, it has a very futuristic look to it but also an old look. this design does interest me a lot and I may reference from this. 

This is a very good 3D piece by the Environment and prop artist Winston Valentine, this drone is a very futuristic drone and would be used for sentry patrols possibly in the future.

 A fixed wing would mostly be used in shows or for fun

 can be used as a surveillance drone but is limited due to only having one rotor 

The controversy of drones

One of the main controversies of drones is them being used for Drug drops and contraband drops above prisons for the inmates to start riots. or to even have drugs outbreak throughout the prison. So one of the ways I have stopped this from happening is by not having any places for contraband or drugs to hang off from my drone. 

Another danger/Controversy for drones is the danger to wildlife and aircraft's this being birds flying into the propellers of a drone and killing them which has been reported before in the past. and how I have countered this is by not using conventional propellers and using a magnetic force for my propellers so no birds or other wildlife would die from the propellers. and  how I have made sure the drones don't fly into planes is by adding the sensor which will detect anything in front of the drone within a 500 metre radius allowing there to be enough time to move out of the way. 

Another problem is the invasion of privacy now drones are known for having really good cameras which can look quite far and are used for surveillance of some rural areas and even war scenes. however due to the situations my drone will be used in it has cameras on them.   

The Evolution of drones

 One of the coolest uses of drones in recent years has been for the capturing of live events. Drones are being commonly used these days to capture addresses by politicians, concerts, and live sports events. They can provide a perspective to the audience that no other technology can provide.

 Drones have opened up such possibilities for humans that exploring the world’s deepest corners has now become a much easier job. For example, geologists have to visit the most peculiar and dangerous parts of the earth to do their jobs. Sometimes, large organisations like NASA have to rely on satellite footage to know the structure of earth in certain dangerous areas. With drones, it is now possible to have a much closer look at places that are not easily accessible for human beings. These drones can go into these places and provide footage so humans can later visit with knowledge of what to expect in these remote areas.

 Drones are being used by many big companies for the delivery of products to customers. Think about pizza chains sending pizzas to their customers using drones. These drones are powerful enough to carry multiple large pizzas on them and make the delivery process much faster. Amazon has been using drones in certain regions to deliver small items. However, sending large items this way could be hazardous.

 This is one of the best uses of drones, despite the many fears that people have associated with drones being used by the police. Aside from surveying areas where terrorists are hiding, drones can also be used to identify the locations of criminals and the right plan of action if criminals are holding hostages. In fact, drones used by police can also shoot if the need arises.

 Most sci-fi and action movies require aerial shots. In the past, filmmakers had to use helicopters to direct aerial scenes in their movies, but hiring a helicopter and shooting on it can be annoying and expensive. With drones, you don’t have to go through that hassle or disruption. Using expert drone controllers means clean footage that is exactly what the director wants. It seems that modern cameramen and their crews will have to learn to fly drones if they want to protect their jobs in future.

With the rising numbers of threatened and endangered wildlife populations, human interest in conservation and protection is growing. Keeping an eye on these animals is a top priority for organisations working in this field. However, when humans enter animal habitats, they can do more harm than good. There is now a better way for these organisations to keep an eye on wildlife without disturbing the peace. Drones have provided a way for these organisations to do their jobs without hurting the animals they are trying to save.

Pictures of my Phantom III drone 

Here are pictures of my drone which I own. I may use the shape of this drone for the body of my drone when I start to model my piece

Here are some very basic drafts on possible drone shapes i may go for when I finally start modelling my piece 

Here is the start of my modelling of my final piece as you can see it is taking shape, also it is not a normal drone I have gone down the lane of a more futuristic method towards the "propellers"

 this was the first Drone model as you can see I made the drone arms very bulky and square which wasn't the best look or the look I was going for my self so I decided to make a whole new shape.

 This is my more futuristic propeller which uses a magnetic field to control the speed, pitch and raw.

Here is the better shaped drone and the better arms for the drone too they have a more natural look.  

  To make the Wires on my drone I took a cylinder and decreased the size of the cylinder, and angled it to fit around my drone. I wanted to make it look like heavy duty wire and that its very secured. 

To make the inverted drone arms I had to select the faces of the arm and separate them and change the direction of the way they are angled to give my piece definition.

How I created the propellers was just taking the circle model with in Maya and just decreasing the size of each level to make tunnel essentially, Then I took a sphere and pipes to make the middle aka the magnetic field.   

                            Here is a very early concept on how I may texture my drone

 I am going to be using Plastic for my main body of my work as it can reflect light really well as well as it will work for the type of situations my drone will be in.

Metal will also be used in my piece of work however it wont be as frequent as the plastic

Here is a textured version of my piece and I am now in the final stages of my piece

Here is my final Model design for my drone I am please on the way it panned out 

I had to pull up the levels of my colours in photoshop using Ctrl + L due to my original render had very low opacity colour within it 

This a render of my drone however it is not a good render at all. As my materials are not showing up a long with my lighting making, This whole piece very flat with colour. 

Here is my final render of my drone this is a much better render than my previous one. Due to this one actually had the materials applied to the model, giving it the the metallic and plastic look.

Evaluation

The task for my project was to a self-set task, and I chose to create drone a within the style of modern and futuristic and I chose to create it in Maya so it was a 3D model. I used several software's such as Photo shop, PowerPoint and Word document all of these were used to boost my ideas and help to develop them. The reason for me wanting to design a drone was because of my favourite game Rainbow six siege. Which consist of two teams an attacking team and a defending team, and one of the main ways to gain Intel is by droning around the map as an attacker to find out where the defenders are and where the objective is.

For me to really grasp how a drone looks I had to research a lot features of a drone such as how the propellers work entirely and how to create the design for my drone. It also helped a lot that I have a drone I own myself so it made getting primary research really easy for me and me to study a drone up and close. I also did a lot of silhouettes of drones and other objects for me to really understand the makings of a drone and how they would be used with a piece of work. If it would be a dominate or sub dominate form.  

At the start of making my drone I ran into a few problems with making a shape I liked the look of, however after a few attempts I managed to find a look which I liked quite a lot. Also my secondary research helped me a lot for my idea of how drones can be used in games and in real life. As well as that I looked at a few artist on Art station and looked at some of their work for references. And general ideas on how I could model my drone. For me to make the drone, shape and my take on propellers. What shapes I used to model my whole drone was; a Sphere and a ring to make everything on my drone. Whilst it isn't a lot of shapes I used I personally think the drone looks really good. I also tried to go with a Modern but a hint of futuristic look meaning the shape of the drone is very modern, along with the cameras and sensor but the propellers are a very futuristic style.

 However the artist I studied all went for a very realistic look but with again with a bit of futuristic styles. Within them for example the artist off Art station called Winston Valentine had a very cool design of a ball sentry drone, and there was multiple types of her drones and I really wanted to do something similar. However I didn’t manage my time well enough so sadly I was only able to create one, along with that small hiccup I also had a problem with my rendering where my colours and shading weren’t showing up in the final render so I had to take my render into Photoshop and use the histogram method where I viewed all the pixel and colour codes to add my colour back to my image, This was a short fix to my problems until I did a whole re set of Maya on my computer to fix any problems I had with my rendering which helped.  I am also pleased that I managed to actually finish what I set out for which was to model a drone.

If I could of done this project over again I would make my research a lot easier on myself and would of went straight to how drones are used in real life and games and looked at referencing them in my work, as well as that I would of spent more time on my modelling so I could of got the best piece possible and I would of experimented a lot more with my work and tried some other possible designs. However I do like how my drone actually turned out, I think it’s a very cool design and I managed to capture what I was going for. But if I could change one thing it would be the wires which I have on the outside of my drone, they wasn’t as clean as I wanted. Due to me not putting enough time into them. Although you can see all this development of my work on my blog a long with all my research.