Concept to Delivery: The Origin of Maud

Описание: Learn how designers Lasse Pekkala and Ben Merrill bring a character design concept to life using the Concepts app on iPad Pro and the FormLabs Form2 printer as part of their process.

Background

Maud is a genetic experiment from the near future; a small, phosphorescent hybrid of a birch tree and a moose, grown in a garage-based biolab as a novelty pet for kids.

Starting life as a seed pod on a bio-synthetic plant known as “the Mother Tree”, these mucivores are incubated and transported in accelerated-growth tubes via delivery drone to kids around the world.

Mauds come in many different color ranges, each with the ability to go from its original pastel color to earth-tones with emotional control over texture. This provides Maud with nearly complete camouflage capabilities against predators.

As a Maud has no mouth, its self-healing skin is engineered to absorb water and nutrition from plants. It sleeps on a fresh bed of leaves every night and absorbs the energy and nutrition, leaving the brown carcasses to be cleaned up behind it.

Maud is typically an outgoing and fun loving creature, but with neglect will become timid and quiet. Mauds are very curious and intelligent creatures, full of life and wonder. Take care of them and you’ll have a loyal and interesting pet for years to come.

Not everything went as planned for this particular Maud. A blast to its delivery drone caused the growth tube to fracture and its seed to separate early. Left in the woods to fend for itself, Maud quickly learned to adapt to the forest floor and evade predators where it began to explore…

Designed and Directed by Lasse Pekkala and Ben Merrill for TopHatch.

Apps Used:
Concepts (http://cnce.pt/try)
ZBrush Core (http://cnce.pt/NjVk)
Autodesk Fusion 360 (http://cnce.pt/Njk4)
Premiere & After Effects by Adobe (http://cnce.pt/MDk4)

Honorable Mentions:
uMake (http://cnce.pt/Nzhl)
Shapr3D (http://cnce.pt/ZjA3)
Shapeways (http://cnce.pt/Yjg2)

Hardware:
iPad Pro & Apple Pencil (http://cnce.pt/Yjdm)
Form 2 Printer & PreForm by Formlabs (http://cnce.pt/NTYy)

Music:
Eternal Waves - Cloud Revolution
Sociality Interpretation - Grandom


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