B1 Battle Droid x American Football
For one of my first projects at university, we were tasked with creating a drone from either an existing IP or a completely custom one. I decided that I wanted to make a B1 Battle Droid from Star Wars as I thought it would be not only a fun project, but also a challenge for myself given I have never created something humanoid. Therefore, I thought this would be a good challenge to push my modelling skills within Maya. View my Rookies entry here https://www.therookies.co/entries/51380
I then textured my droid based on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team and my own custom, Star Wars inspired American Football (or "Huttese Football League") teams the Ylesia Reeks and Kintan Striders. The droids are then named after players such as Justin Jefferson, Tom Brady, Randy Moss, Jerry Rice, Mike Evans, Davante Adams, TJ Hockenson and Jalen Hurts.
B1 Battle Droid. Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.
Wireframe. Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.
References for my B1 Battle Droid, credit various sources.
Vikings Battle Droid Materials. Created and Rendered in Substance 3D Painter
Vikings Battle Droid and American Football Alphas.
Droid UV's. Normal, Base Colour, Metallic, Roughness.
Character sheet. Renders taken in Substance Painter.
Additional Render Angles, Marmoset Toolbag.
Additional Wireframe Renders, Marmoset Toolbag.
Turntable animation, rendered in Maya. Microsoft Clipchamo used to create video.
AO Renders, Maya.
Evans vs Jefferson. Rendered in Maya.
Evans vs Jefferson, angle 2. Rendered in Maya.
Base Colours of Mike Evans and Justin Jefferson droids.
Additional Materials created for Reek and Strider Battle Droids. Reeks: beige, red, grey. Striders: light yellow, black. I also re-used the white material from the Vikings design for the Striders.
Additional poses: Randy Moss vs Jerry Rice, Tom Brady and TJ Hockenson vs Davante Adams and Jalen Hurts. All rendered in Maya.
Alphas and Textures created for Reek and Strider Battle Droids. I ended up opting not to add the Reek face (bottom right) to the droid as I preferred the three horns and ball design.
High Resolution Screenshot taken in UE5. Rice vs Moss. For this I also created a quick pitch, field goal, pilon and bench asset for the scene.
High Resolution Screenshot taken in UE5. Evans vs Jefferson.
High Resolution Screenshot taken in UE5. Brady and Hockenson vs Adams and Hurts.