I had a lot of initial ideas on what to do for my cute character, so I decided to narrow it down to doing three different concept sketches to help me decide which one would be the best and I could tell the best story from. I made myself a pintrest board to help me gather initial designs for my ideas:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/jazzy_121/concept-ideas-for-cute-character/

The first design I did featured a whale shark character. I find whale sharks very cute, due to their large flat heads and slow, gentle movement through the sea so I thought it would be interesting to try to create my cute character based off this. I added a smiley expression as well as some extra sea creatures to help build the scene. I liked this design and I thought that there was a lot of opportunity to build the scene with extra elements in order to tell the story.

The second design was of a cheeky cat pushing a vase off the table. I thought this one would be fun to do as the little cat has some character which would build the story and I thought the angle of the vase would be fun to work with. I thought it would also be interesting to try to model the model falling out of the vase, and use a transparent material. I also thought it would be interesting to work with hard surface material and soft surface materials on the cats fur and also the hard vase. The cats fur would perhaps pose a challenge however, as I would have to sculpt it all.

My final design was both of my dogs fused together into one two headed creature. They are both from the same litter but they are very different and I would be could be fun to work with trying to show the contrasts in both their personalities and physical appearances. It would however be difficult, as just like the cat I would have to sculpt all of the fur which might prove challenging.

In the end I decided to go with the Whale Shark as I think it has the most potential for development as well as texturing in substance painter.