I’ll probably choose between the two by the time I create my next ‘Norse Future’ Blog. Anyway, here’s the sketch… At the moment I’m stuck between choosing the first two designs mainly because I favour them the most and I believe that I could develop them further to make them look that extra bit better. The futuristic thing in this scene being the VR Headset that the Warrior is wearing. Not much detail is in the background but if I were to recreate this, the background would be full of Norse mythology references like the tree of life, Asgaard and so much more. A Viking Warrior playing Virtual Reality. Here’s the sketch… And last but not least is kind of a silly sketch I came up with. But Loki’s eye is glowing red and bits of his skin on his face has ripped away revealing steel. However behind you can see Loki the Trickster, damaged from battle. In this sketch, I show a light drawn towards Thor’s Hammer on a pedestal. Anyway heres the sketch… Next I did a more sinister looking sketch. In the sketch also you see a window, I didn’t quite get round to sketching the tree of life in the design but that is would would be in the background, however the tree of life would appear futuristic, almost like Cloud City/Bespin from Star Wars. These books being about other Norse Legends and myths in Norse Mythology. The first design I came up with was of Thors hammer leaning on a pile of books. I don’t quite know what it was that possessed me to create these concepts in this program, I guess I just wanted to create the sketches digital for a change, why not eh?Īnyway here are some of my designs.

SketchBook Express for those who don’t know, is a free sketching app which can be found on the app store. Anyway instead of doing these sketches on traditional pencil and paper, I decided to create the sketches in Autodesk SketchBook Express. Well over the past week, I’ve produced a few sketches that I will use as inspiration for the environment build before painting.Īs I said before, I managed to produce a few sketches so that when it comes to modelling the environment, I have a good idea of what I want to do, especially when it comes to the painting/ texturing process. In my last Norse Project blog, you may remember me talking about gathering reference material and starting to prepare myself for creating sketches and concepts. So with that being said, my goal for the weekend and the days working up to next session, I will be sketching character designs so that next session I can get started modelling and maybe UV unwrapping. Unfortunately I didn’t get to modelling in today’s session, mainly due to me building my reference bank up so that I had a good understanding for when it came to designing my character. Some of my reference material is shown below… I decided to build up a reference bank in a Power Point document, this was so that I could keep all my references in one place and manage my reference images as much as I wanted and also so that I didn’t have to create several different mood board documents in Photoshop. Speaking of art style, I also referenced Tim Burton’s Pokémon designs as they really stand out and I liked how Tim put his own artsy twist on the Pokémon characters he drew. This is because I’m really interested in the art style of these characters. Going back to my reference material, I referenced concept art of characters such as Sligs from Oddworld, Abe from Oddworld, Crash Bandicoot, Neo Cortex and Sly Cooper. Speaking of my model, I’m going to be creating my own unique character in a cartoony type style, mainly because I really like the style and the over exaggeration of facial features and so on. I didn’t get onto modelling this lesson however I gathered a ton of reference material for my model.

Matt had also told us to focus on aiming high to achieve the best possible quality and create the best model we have ever created.Īs I said previously, the task would take place over the course of 9 weeks and Matt had given us a sort of timetable to work with so that we had an idea of how the 9 weeks would play out… So as you can see, our first week would be focused on Planning and if we got round to it, make a start on modelling. The model in later stages will be UV mapped and textured.

The model needs to show a high to low poly model which uses normal map baking. The brief was to produce our best possible 3D model with minimal restrictions. This is so that we could build up our second year Portfolio a bit more. Today, Matt had briefed us on a portfolio task that we would complete in the space in 9 weeks.

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