Vehicles

When researching various types of mines around the world I realized how vehicle heavy the mining industry is. Present day mines use some sort of machinery for transportation or extracting the raw materials from the ground. The group agreed that in order to realistically achieve our goal (producing a mine in 3d) we needed to have all the elements that constitute a mine. By incorporating vehicles within the scene it would give the surrounding are a sense of scale but also movement. It would also help explain the structure itself and its usage. Vehicles would give the impression that the site is used and operational and would give us something to animate.

I researched a variety of land and ground vehicles from past and present. This included vehicles from the Second World War as well as jets and tanks from the Vietnam and Gulf wars. Again we wanted the vehicles to be realistic based on present day technologies. The machinery had to be used and industrial and had to be in keeping with the designs of the mine itself. Clashing styles would raise questions about the validity of the project as well as the research we had done. I saw it necessary to base the vehicles on existing ones, taking elements we could use and amalgamating them to produce a fully functional vehicle with practicality in mind. 

The group agreed there needed to be some sort of air vehicle which would serve as the transportation unit of the Intronium resource. The planet is a hostile environment with rugged mountains and rocks as well as ever moving sand dunes as far as the eye can see. For effective transport to be possible vast airships were built for  easy transportation to take place far above the hostile surface. 

The group also wanted some sort of land vehicle which extracted the raw Intronium and transported it to the ships waiting on the landing pads outside the mine. Again the vehicle had to be believable and appear used. I looked at various images ranging from tanks and mining vehicles. I was mainly interested in certain elements that constituted the vehicles like caterpillar tracks and mechanical arms.