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04-18-2015, 08:04 PM
Okay, it's true. I was impressed with BB-8 when I saw him roll out on stage at Celebration. Guess we'd better get building.
Gotta have plans to build a droid, though, so I thought I'd get to work on those first. I'll document my process to allow for double checking accuracy. If people see errors or flaws, please let me know and I'll see what I can do about correcting them.
I started out by taking the footage from the reveal and saving it out as an image sequence. This yielded 3779 frames. About 600 of these were of people talking or reactions from the audience, so I went through and deleted those. They were entertaining, but they're not going to help me build a droid.
I went through and found a frame that looked like a good candidate and cropped the image down to just what I needed for the droid.
![[Image: BB8__step_01.jpg]](http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/BB8__step_01.jpg)
I created a sphere in my 3D weapon of choice and masked off the areas between the panels. Then I took the image I had cropped and projected it on to the sphere keeping an eye on the orientation.
![[Image: normal_BB8__step_02.jpg]](http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/normal_BB8__step_02.jpg)
I carefully went through the frames identifying each unique round panel and projecting them onto the sphere, making sure to get the orientation right as well as it's relative position to all the other panels. When I was done, I had this:
![[Image: BB8__step_03.jpg]](http://rebeldroids.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/BB8__step_03.jpg)
The point here isn't to have high quality versions of the panels on the sphere, but to map out the location and orientation quickly and easily so that it can be verified and used as a reference as more detail is refined.
Gotta have plans to build a droid, though, so I thought I'd get to work on those first. I'll document my process to allow for double checking accuracy. If people see errors or flaws, please let me know and I'll see what I can do about correcting them.
I started out by taking the footage from the reveal and saving it out as an image sequence. This yielded 3779 frames. About 600 of these were of people talking or reactions from the audience, so I went through and deleted those. They were entertaining, but they're not going to help me build a droid.
I went through and found a frame that looked like a good candidate and cropped the image down to just what I needed for the droid.
I created a sphere in my 3D weapon of choice and masked off the areas between the panels. Then I took the image I had cropped and projected it on to the sphere keeping an eye on the orientation.
I carefully went through the frames identifying each unique round panel and projecting them onto the sphere, making sure to get the orientation right as well as it's relative position to all the other panels. When I was done, I had this:
The point here isn't to have high quality versions of the panels on the sphere, but to map out the location and orientation quickly and easily so that it can be verified and used as a reference as more detail is refined.