With my character design, I just have to now create a front, sides and back view of the design for me to reference while sculpting in Blender. I decided to look into some videos which have some similar aspects in design or material. Firstly, I looked into clothes, I probably won’t use this technique for all of the clothing but for the skirt area to make it flow so I looked around for another sculpting clothes video that uses the sculpting tools.

With this, I can now take into more consideration in the design. I also still went back into looking at the style we’re trying to mimic mainly at female characters. Judging from my design (Left)  that I need to give my character at least some hips. For some reason most females have this aggressive hip dips. Instead of just adjusting the design, I’ll try and combine these two together with some additional designs.

I did some scribbles on the side of body with  hips before going into designing the final design. I also want to make the design contrast a current design in the show which are the wolves mainly for the head, since they have small ears and a squished face. I went for some large ears and pulled face. They’ve also got small pupils which I gave my design large ones. I looked at the zombie designs mainly at the face as they have very obvious cheek bones and eyebags.

This is what my end result looked like until I decided to change it up completely.

CHANGING THE PIG

After a long time of looking at the design, I became unsatisfied. I started thinking about changing it into a toad as there is a Chinese mythological creature called the Jin Chan which is a gold toad that brings luck and wealth or Pixiu as they can be model into eating gold which would probably looking more interesting. The pig doesn’t really relate to any monster stories that I know, I also could just replace the head of the current design so I don’t have to spend too much time on changing it up.

In the end, I decided to go with the Pixiu and mixing it into the humanoid anatomy. It’ll have roughly the same anatomy proportion as the last pig design so I don’t have to spend any longer on planning the anatomy. It allows me to give more texture to play around when I make this.

Since I’m redesigning a final design, I’ll be slightly behind with what most people have currently. I quickly did a sketch of the head so I can at least sculpt this in class if need be. From research, there is no set design for the Pixiu from what I’ve seen apart from the description of a dragon head and a lion’s body, in the end, I have decided to combine a few elements from my references.

FINAL DESIGN