I received a very nice gift from Dreamworks today, a laser etching of Peabody and Sherman sitting inside the WABAC machine. It's a crew gift given to everyone who worked on the movie. I especially appreciate that the time machine was included as it was one of my major contributions to the film. The exterior was tricky, because it's basically a shell of hexagon tiles. We couldn't create this effect with a texture because the tiles needed to move and flip around (during the cloaking effect). Along the way, we realized that you can't make a sphere out of hexagons alone- it's mathematically impossible. Fortunately what you can do is strategically place 5-sided tiles so that all of the tiles are able to seamlessly connect. For a complete sphere, you need 12 pentagons. For a half sphere like the WABAC we just needed 6.
I worked on this movie for over two and a half years! Beginning in 2011 before modeling even got started (I was doing conceptual modeling in the art department), all the way through 2012, and ending in 2013 as one of the "skeleton" crew members in modeling. I learned a ton and grew tremendously as an artist working alongside talented concept artists and modelers alike. When the DVD is released I'll be posting more images from Peabody in the gallery.
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