TRANSCRIPTION: WEEK FIVE

This week has mainly been looking at my research into parts of machinery and trying to come up with a more successful robot design. Below are my sketches that I have drawn up taking you to my final idea but i just want to go through my thought processes with the design beforehand.

My design idea for this robot is that he is totally self dependant, built entirely from scraps and bit and pieces he could find (how the building process ever began from nothing is not important in this project – just the fact that he is ‘alive.’) So taking his into account the final design would have to be very collage like, with components together only because they fit and not for any aesthetic design reasons. I really want the viewer to have the, ‘is that a...?’ moment when they look at him noticing everyday things or old things are making him up.

At first i had the idea of incorporating a cassette player into his body but then after researching that i found that cassettes were not designed until the 60’s, remembering that he is born out of the 1940’s that was an obvious problem! So i thought about using a record player. This was within the time period, plus it would have a certain amount of comedy to it when seen in the final animation, by this I’m not expecting a roaring laughter but more a smile.

Another point about my character is that he lives entirely for music, his life depends on it and it is his best friend so this had to show through in his appearance. I wanted him to resemble music machines for this reason and so his is why it features so largely in my final design. Although below i have said it is m final design I feel that he is still open for development or changes as this project progresses.

(i used this design for the chest section as you can see - it is a 1940's radio. I also tried to incorporate the amount of buttons and knobs into the robot design )