3D Animation Rube Goldbergs Contraption Model WIP

For the entire semester, our goal was to write up a situation dealing with some aspect of a Rube Goldbergs contraption. We were told to create a contraption and to use it accordingly with our scene and our 3D model, Norman, in some bizarre situation. Perhaps not too bizarre, some projects are much simpler and much "sweeter" than the one my partner Damian and I are working on currently. Not to sat that it's necessarily "inappropriate" or " dirty" but our is, to say the least "different." If anything, it will make you laugh, I promise.

Back to the project, my partner and I drew up a quick story board for what  Norman was going to do in our scene and how different objects interact with one another in a series of (in our case unfortunate) events. The machine must work and Norman must interact with it in some way, shape or form. The idea is based around the model.

We decided to take our idea to the kitchen where the opportunities for something creative and funny are endless. We spent 3-ish weeks working in Maya and in Blender to create a realistic version of a kitchen scene, after spending about a weeks worth of time researching kitchen appliances, model kitchens, both modern, traditional and contemporary, and come up with our own setting. We're still in the process of animating, and even coloring our Norman model, along with tweaking our scene for the most optimal setting. This project will be completed before the 2nd week of May, which is when it is due. The 30 second requirement will probably end up being about a minute, due to the amount of work we've been putting in.

Below are our storyboards, our concepts, and some of our work that we've gotten done so far. Norman is animated about 10 seconds into our scene, I will post more about that once we're satisfied with his movements.