The main aim of this task is to fully understand and create a successfully assembled and animated stationary steam engine, I need to choose a design that involves moving parts. This is our task for this semester, first I need to find a reference model and create the model, lighting and mapping in Maya first.
Then did some research on steampunk style machine design and some old industrial machine references. Below are some reference images I found, I picked some options and elements I could use from each image. I needed to come up with gears, exposures and complex structural elements to combine to give the look I wanted. So I found some different models of steam engines and combined them.
