PROJECT PROPOSAL

Project 2: PART 1

* Develop a character design thoroughly exploring as much as possible.

* Also to take care in making sure that all attributes are anatomically correct.

* Develop some concept art as well as some character sheets.

Character Concepts

Here are some of the character concepts I have developed. I think I will be developing the pink beast creature as a character for 3D.

Concept sketches

-The Beast Kingdom-


Here are some concept sketches of characters. I'm primarily trying to focus just on the Beast Kingdom itself.

RESEARCH

Enviroment:
Some environments how I could envisage the different kingdoms for the different races.





Characters: Here are some character inspiration art that I've been looking at. Understanding armour detail was what I was really interested in. Also the design of facial and body structure I tried to study.

The Story

Over the past 2 weeks I've been thinking up of a story for this project. I had big influence from the game "Warcraft 3 Dota map" after many hours of playing it. So here is the quick overview of the story:

There once was a world ruled over by 4 kingdoms. The Beast Kingdom, The Vampiric Kingdom, The Human Kingdom and the Sky Kingdom. In ages past, wars erupted between the (land) kingdoms over the territories of their rule. Many centuries past before a treaty was drawn up by the Sky Kingdom to stop the senseless wars between rival kingdoms. There was an age of peace, and everyone lived happily for a period of time.

However food and resources became scarce for some. The Vampiric Kingdom was not prospering because of their disregard to maintaining their kingdom properly. So they devised a plan to take over other kingdoms and their resources. They sent clans under their alliance out to start a war between the kingdom of the beast and the kingdom of the humans. This is so they may attack both the kingdoms later on when they are weak. Their plan was to take over the entire world.

Thats the brief story without going into to many details.

I will update the story a little bit later on in the future.

PIXAR ANIMATOR - ANDREW GORDON -

Over the weekends I attended an animation workshop ran by autodesk. The tutor was Andrew Gordons and it was inspiring to hear and learn from his experiences as an animator in the industry. What was really weird was that it was actually held at Monash Caulfield!

If many of you don't know Mr Gordon he's the animator that animated mike in "Monsters Inc". He's also done animation in "the incredibles"(edna mode) "ratoutoulli"(i think thats how its spelt). Currently he is working on Toy Story 3.

Alot of useful tips have been given to us students and i feel very empowered!

So bring on the work hahaaa

Reference

Character Sketches

The Idea:

I want to develop a character that tells a story visually from what he looks like. This character will also be put into a short animation for the future projects for MMD.

PROJECT 2: SELF DRIVEN PROJECT

This project will be a 3D based project. It will involve:

- Character design
- Modelling
- Rigging
- Cloth effects
- Abit of animation
- Mel Scripting in Maya

Goals:

- I will attempt to create a very proficient and advance rig for this project.

- Create a clean and efficient(high poly/low poly)model that could be used in game

Let the sleepless nights begin!