Name: Wilson Lin; Due Date: Thursday, 11/6/2025; Rube Goldberg Machine

Story Board

Objects

1) Ball

Sphere that is based on Earth as seen by green and blue coloring. Starts off the Rube Goldberg Machine. Texture is based on Maya's 3D marble texture.

2) Boxes

Boxes that get knocked into each other by the ball. Had intentions of making boxes appear as cereal boxes or books, but ended up with uniquely colored/textured boxes using Maya's 3D leather textures. Boxes have been adjusted to allow movement generated by force from ball to continue Rube Goldberg Machine.

3) Dominoes

Dominoes or smaller boxes that fall. Would have modeled dominoes more according to this video titled "Modeling a Dominoe - Maya Tutorial"  if I had more time.

4) Pressure Plate

Pressure plate that is activated by fallen domino. Intended to have pressure plate squash to more clearly show activation but ran out of time. Textured similarly to the surface that the whole animation takes place on top of - a marble countertop.

5) Lamp

Lamp made of a cone base, cube neck, and a sphere bulb. Lamp's light is activated after pressure plate sequence. Textured based on metal. Light is a spotlight.

Draft Animations

Final Playblast

Explanation

Rube Goldberg Machine taking place on top a marble surface involving an Earth-inspired ball rolling down a ramp into boxes that knock down dominoes onto a pressure plate to activate a lamp.