MECH CADETS Vehicle Designs

I had the pleasure to collaborate with Polygon Pictures on their NETFLIX adaptation of the amazing Mech Academy Yu comic book series from BOOM Studios. I was responsible for a diverse set of assets from ultra functional hero-character props to vehicles and world building objects.

These two designs were quite different. The ATV had already been loosely developed but there were major gaps in it's functionality that the team needed clarity on before they could hand off a completed asset to the 3D team to animate. I took the intention of the sketch and built out a characterful, believable, electric, offroader that is piloted by Ava. The autonomous vehicle was an exercise in simplicity. The vehicle needed to make sense in multiple settings and had a few animation requests for specific experiences that needed to be included. I went to school originally to design cars so the fact that I designed one and it made it to Netflix is good enough for me to check off my bucket list.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=2mDQXUr0MDE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ppi.co.jp%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjMsMjg2NjMsMjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
Polygon Pictures Inc - https://www.ppi.co.jp/works/mech-cadets/?l=e
BOOM Studios comic - https://www.boom-studios.com/series/mech-cadet-yu/