Category: Assignment 2

Here he is! Enjoy : ) https://skfb.ly/ouozz…Continue Reading Cute Character Sketchfab Link

From the start of this semester to now I’m quite impressed and pleased with my progress. Having never worked in 3D before at the start I had strong notions of detest and resentment towards it as someone with ambitions as a 2D artist; notions I can now realise were unjust, as I’ve found myself enjoying…Continue Reading Reflecting on Assignment 2

In doing an exercise of posing, texturing and uploading an elephant model to sketchfab earlier in the semester (see here:  https://skfb.ly/o96SJ ) I had had some experience with this process, but applying it to my character was a little more difficult. Since the arms and legs of my sculpt were separate to the coat and…Continue Reading Posing and Lighting my Character

When I first tried to bake my meshes in substance I encountered some issues. Odd white bands encircled the hat and hat band remaining even with textures applied, and faces seemed to be protruding from one side of the scarf. I’d also accidentally applied a single texture to everything before exporting it, but I was…Continue Reading Baking and Texturing my Sculpt in Substance Painter

To begin retop on my character, I started with the coat as it was the biggest part, before working my way around from the scarf, to the head, to the nose, to the trousers, and finally to the arms and legs. Although this was a tedious and relatively lengthy process, I didn’t encounter too much…Continue Reading Retopologising and UV Mapping my Sculpt

When I drew up my character reference sheet I had in my head a rough idea of how I could start to block in the basic shapes of my character. An altered cube for the coat, cylinders for the sleeves, cubes and cylinders for the legs and arms, cubes for his trousers, spheres and a…Continue Reading Blocking and Sculpting my Character

Prior to this assignment I’d had no experience sculpting in 3D, but having enjoyed using clay in the past I was quite excited to see what could be achieved (and how well I could achieve it). My first attempt at organic modelling came with an in-class exercise wherein we followed Henry’s tutorial to make a…Continue Reading First exercises in Blender

As soon as we were given a character assignment I got to work thinking through some concepts and what I wanted to achieve. I started thinking through different characters and character types that could be adapted to fit this brief; animals, children, aliens, robots, sweet old ladies feeding birds in a park. I just wanted…Continue Reading My Cute Character Concept- Beginning Assignment 2