I was recently given this brief at university set by Atomhawk, to design a mech that would suit the story below. I started with some silhouettes which I then later developed by using some line art, and then created the mech in Blender which I used for the turnaround sheet, and did a paint over in photoshop. The brief was:
Due to rising global temperatures rainforests became massively overgrown and impenetrable for regular machinery to get in and extract resources, so specialised mechs were designed to be able to navigate through the difficult terrain where tractors and tracks can’t get to and cut down and extract the precious trees within. The mechs are also designed with defences against the massively overgrown dangerous predators that roam the forest.
We’d like you to design a realistic functional tree-felling forestry mech based in the near future and heavily grounded in reality.