dad bot v1

[kfarr]

New (low poly) 3d character: "Dad Bot"

• Dad Bot evaluates dad jokes
• Dad Bot has a mustache and a beer belly
• Dad Bot is wearing a soft knit oversized sweater that says Dad Bot
• Dad Bot has dad sneakers (big white comfortable sneakers)
• Dad Bot's robot parts are made up of old recycled parts from other robots
• Dad Bot is wearing an outdoor hat

AI alignment backstory: In order for humanity to survive, it has to provide entertainment to robotic overload otherwise all of humanity is destroyed. Dad Bot has been chosen as the agent for the AI community to evaluate the quality of dad jokes presented by the humans.

Environment (separate from dadbot ticket, just FYI)

• comedy club
• microphone
• drum
• audience laugh -- slightly robotic

Questions:

• Is Dad Bot also on stage? Or the primary audience member that has a spotlight on him while the user presents from the stage?

[kfarr]

Here are a few ideas from Bing Image Creator, are there any elements that resonate @dmarcos?

[dmarcos]

Thanks for following up with this. it's awesome. My fav below. Love the fabric. Would be cool if can be retained on a model for real time:

[gnansai]

Hi @kfarr
Here is an update on Dad Bot

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[gnansai]

Here is the Blender file. I have not optimized the textures and the model yet.
dad_bot_v01.zip

[gnansai]

Could you let me know the following?

1. Are we going to animate the model ? If yes, Then what kind of animations are we going to do on this model ?
   I can rig accordingly.
2. Do you need more details on the Model?

[kfarr]

@dmarcos Can you let us know your thoughts on dadbot v1 here? Also check out Gnanasai's questions about animations / rigging or if we need additional details?

[dmarcos]

Hey. Sorry missed this. Model looks awesome. Great job! I'm not an expert in rigging but some considerations:

1. Face blend shapes to make it expressive.
2. we would want to have walk / idle cycles and use mixamo style of animations.
3. For in-VR motion capture we might want a head and hands only version (perhaps we can accomodate body somehow). Limb IK is usually kind of cheesy. This is what we did with A Saturday Night

What do you think?

[gnansai]

Hi @dmarcos
Thanks for the review. I have checked "A Saturday Night". It looks great.
I will update you

1. Shape Keys for Expressions
2. Walk and Idle poses using mixamo rig
3. I can include only Head and hands for VR.

[gnansai]

Hi @dmarcos
I have exported Dad bot model for VR as the "A Saturday Night" models that you shared before.
I have exported as three models. Please check it when ever you can and let me know.

dad-bot-VR-models.zip

[gnansai]

Hi @dmarcos
I have rigged the dad-bot model with mixamo. I have added idle and walk animations to it.
dad_bot-mixamo-rig_v01.zip
Idle animation

dad-bot-idle.mp4

walk animation

dad-bot-walk-cycle.mp4

Here is the Blender file with textures
dad_bot_v06_packed_blender_file.zip