We had to create one of the archetypes of the story (Huntsman, Princess, King, Giant or Watchdog), while the setting was free and we were encouraged to not use the classic fairy tales scenario.
Everything from concept, design, modelling, texturing was our task.
Referencesheets:
Most of the references I used for my huntsman.
Some of the references I collected on the princess. There was a mass of possible references and very good onces too. I decided against it, since it would have been extremely complicated for the first character. Especially the hair.
References on the Rifle I collected. Since the scenerio was a futuristic one, the rifles Biathlon athletes use were perfect. If I've had the time, I'd have made one similar to these, except for the texture of course.
References I looked up for the hunters sword.
Concept:
Some of the tryouts. They were created in a pretty short time, since the first silhouttes didn't work out, I used some of the references for the silhouttes. They look good, but I had problems drawing equipment into the silhouettes. One reason for that was, that it was hard for me to imagine how it would react to the pose and the other of course was my lack of practice in drawing.
So I switched into drawing a basic T-Pose and drew the equipment into it.
So I switched into drawing a basic T-Pose and drew the equipment into it.
Outlines front.
Modelling:
Early mesh of the body. One side is duplicated as an instance so you better see how it will look in the end. Changes will appear on both sides. I used the hands I already did for an exercise and tweaked them a bit to save some time.
Early mesh of the head.
Finished mesh of the ear, of course it was tweaked a lot after and before merging with the head.
Mesh of the head before exporting it into the main maya file.
Texturing:
Final Colourmap.
Specular Map.
Finished mesh with textures placed on top of a provided socket and light setting.
Rendering:
Front.
Left.
Back.
Right.
Character-Sheet:
