Week 10 UPDATE

Gale is finished, and I'm now working on shots of Von Tesla. He's got a lot of hard surface modelling needing done on him, and I'm focusing on making his face seem a bit more realistic than Gales, which I feel could be improved upon.

Gale low poly


Gale High Poly w/ accessories

Flat Shader


Metal Shader


Tesla Progress


I've been meeting with Gregor and Gordon, and mainly just focusing on mainly sculpting now, giving progress reports on what I'm doing and what needs to be done. I'm developed Teslas base mesh from the one I made earlier in the semester, and am building most of the hard surfaced pieces within maya and taking them into zbrush to sculpt upon. With hope, I may have enough time to create more than one other character. This would really help my study and my showcase I believe.

Dare To Be Digital Character Design - Moles

Update - MORE MOLES

Week 9

Getting close to finishing my sculpt of Gale, and hopefully starting Tesla soon. I think at this rate I may be able to finish quick enough to do a third, maybe even forth character. Here are some progress stills of Gale in Zbrush. I still need to add her javelin and other accessories.

Week 8 Update

Ive been spending a lot of time trying to get Gale's model finished as soon as possible so that I can continue on designing and modelling Von Tesla, and any other villains that can be designed based around the compliance of their archetypes. In any case, here are the newimages. Critique would be greatly appreciated before I go on modelling. Im not so happy with her pose, I feel it could be weighted a lot better, so i'm going to revisit that when I can.

WEEK 7 UPDATE

I think I've finished a LOT of my research and dissertation type up of the most part.... it's sitting at about 8k words now and I'm too afraid to add any more. As such, i'm trying my best to pump out character designs and focus on creating my hero.

The archetypes of my story are predator and prey, and each are going to complement one another visually as well as archetypally (is that a word?). Abigail, the prey character, symbolises the polar opposite of the predator, von tesla, who represents the ambition of career, industry, and dependance upon other people. Abigail is a loner, who tends to shun industry and holds roots within shamanistic beliefs and alchemy.

In any case, design has started on abigal, and her zbrush model is underway.