For our first assignment working with sculpting in blender, we were given creative freedom with making a sculpt themed around a “cute character”, immediately a star shape popped into my head and i got to sketching out my concept. I wasn’t sure if my idea was too simple so i then started adding to it, i gave it a ._. face as i thought that was really cute and I’m usually drawn to poker face characters so i wanted to take this opportunity to create my own, i then added an orange on top of its head and honestly this was completely random and i was thinking of my among us character at the time which i always have a little leaf on the head of, so i thought that’d make a nice hat decoration for my model. After looking at my design for a little while, it reminded me of these little resin toys i see a lot when scrolling through Ali Express as well as resin keychains I often look at made by Oops Cry Creations on Instagram and thought it’d look interesting and be fun to try and sculpt, so i added a layer of transparency to my star and gave it smaller glitter stars to fit inside. I had planned to animate my character a little to give it life and seem more interesting, but I didn’t realise how unrealistic that was with the kind of work we were set out to do in blender.
Below are two examples of the keychains made by Oops that inspired my design, followed by the Yuki figure series.
