This assignment was tough on, it pushed me to my limits and wracked my brain day and night, but I loved that, I loved the creative process behind making just one character! I ran into a lot of frustrating problems with modeling and had a lot of late nights, trying to make something look justContinue reading Reflection
My prop was very important to my character, I knew she was a queen, someone people looked up to a lot so I wanted that reflected in her prop. I felt like a crown didn’t fit the type of queen she was. I look at her and think that she is a heroin that fightsContinue reading Prop & Armatures
After exporting my baked maps from blender into substance painter I began to start painting. I tried out different colours but settled on my initial design which was deep seaweed green. My model did look a little messy and I could see the retopologising clearly through the paint so I decided to go back toContinue reading Substance Painter
The number of problems I ran into while retopologozing was ridiculous! I had to restart about three times until I eventually stopped running into problems. Finally, it began working and all was going well… but that was short-lived. I had the mirror modifier on and I didn’t want to retopologize the hair symmetrically so IContinue reading Rotopologizing and Unwrapping
With my design chosen, it was time to move to blender! previously on separate projects I have brought my image into blender and designed my shapes to fit into the drawing but I decided this time to try and learn how to proportion in blender and only reference it as an image on a separateContinue reading Initial Sculpt
While researching for the film I discovered that Genndy Tartakovsky and his team had hundreds of sketches for different characters in the films. Lots of these were drawn onto cereal boxes as you can see below because the texture and colour fit the aesthetic they were going for. It’s interesting to see the vast differenceContinue reading Character Research
With two different character designs in mind, I needed to focus on which one I’d enjoy making and which one fit in with Genndy Tartakovsky’s style. I couldn’t help but be drawn toward my chef. I wanted to make a feminine soft-featured character that also looked evil… if that makes sense. I watched the filmsContinue reading Developing my Character Design
I wrote down what characteristics I needed to stick to while designing a character. I studied the character shaped from his characters and what base shapes he used for his males and females. His work in 2D and 3D varied with his 2D being quiet blocky and his 3D being softer and pointier. I knewContinue reading Genndy Tartakovsky Character design
Prior to this course I had very little experience in blender, making small projects and following youtube tutorials but I never learned anything, I just repeated it. When I started off in this course I knew that the 3D aspect would really challenge and entice me. On week one I felt that I had beenContinue reading Reflecting on the year so far…
