Modeling Robotnik's Egg Pod

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Shinjitsu84

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Published on November 17, 2022 1:28:37 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7rzavz-U0s

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Sonic Frontiers (2022)

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I captured every session of modeling for the creation of Robotnik's Egg Pod (Egg Mobile) whichever you want to call it. The general shape and feel of THIS version of his egg pod is loosely based on the silhouette and features of the base and laser equipped Egg Pod from the original Sonic CD game. Because I decided to give Robotnik a physics enabled cape I had concerns about keeping the original large jet engine behind his head design. We could reasonably assume his cape would get snatched up into the inlet and that would be game over for him.

Because of this unforeseen design flaw I took some liberties on the industrial mechanics of the thing by trading some fossil fuel driven stuff for electrical alternative energy. For the central main fuselage I have moved the primary fuel based jet engine to here. In place of the jet engine up top alternative energy has been used there instead to power the side mounted ionic hover stabilizers and high powered ground laser cannon on the bottom. What type of alternative energy you may ask. No not hydrogen or solar but... Quartz. Yes, mineral power; Not feasible tech but I thought it could be interesting to explain why Quartz Quadrant, one of the levels before Stardust Speedway would manifest a bad future were Robotnik has been mining/hoarding the heck out of the planet's resources of this precious gem. In Quartz Quadrant present you see plenty of the gems laying around, BUT in Quartz Quadrant bad future most if not all of the background gems are gone and most of the scene has devolved into some kind of mining processing refineries with chemical vats and smoke stacks everywhere.

There are studies that show Quartz has electrical properties. It can produce electrical discharge when bent or compressed. Here we can imagine perhaps a battery electrical or combustion initiated impulse that could jump start a sustainable chain reaction to keep this vehicle's hovering stable while relying on jet propulsion for rapid forward motion. In real life there is no such sustainable reaction but I thought it would be an interesting spin to have a vehicle run off an energy source we don't see often just to play up the possibilities of science fiction and add a little more to the allure of Robotnik really being a true mad scientist.

This is just a 10x sped up play through of the whole process from block-outs to final low res shapes. I did not plan to sculpt anything on the vehicle as is mostly hard edged and subdivided base meshes were plenty for my baking needs. I will eventually fake other details in the texturing process. I will work in substance and try to record all those sessions as well. Its lengthy and very boring with my same Robotnik theme instrumental music looped over and over. It is just here as a documentation of the process which took me around a month simply because of low energy levels and little free time outside of work and family stuff. I hope to finish the texturing this weekend and start finally filming some for this next short. Enjoy!

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