05/Apr/2023 - 18/May/2023
Kim MinJoon 0353248
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / MMD60804 / Taylor's University
Final Project
INSTRUCTIONS
Tasks
Project 3 - Character Modelling
For the final project, we needed to make a chaaracter from a show or a movie.
Mr Kamal showed us tutorials and he went through the process by making a character from the tv show Spongebob Squarepants. He made Patrick Star.
I wanted to make a realistic character like a game character but my god that would be horrible to do as it would take such a long time. So I decided to just go with a character from a korean animated tv show, Pororo.
I looked at Pororo's design and I did not want to do that.. So I just decided to go with Pororo's brother, Crong.
I searched up Crong's character turnaround sheet, but I couldn't find anything since I guess its very limited because its a korean animation show.. So I just had to piece many images together that I could find and try to replicate that with just the images I had.
I first add in a cube and subdivided it so that it would be like a ball but not quite. I applied it then moved some vertices around and I had a rough shape of crong's head.
Then I made 2 semi circles and added that for his eyelids. Then 2 balls to make the eyeballs.
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With that, I made another cube and subdivided it once again, and made a rough shape of his torso. I repeated this to make the legs and the arms.
For the hands, it was quite difficult and very confusing. It was a process I had never used before and I just tried to follow a tutorial I found online.
Hand Tutorial - here
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After, I went into sculpting mode and added meshes and tried to make sure that it looked like the picture reference I had found online. I made his nose bigger, and his head a bit smaller and kept making adjustment even to his torso. I also made another semi-circle and made them into his nose.
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Then, it was his feet. The toe nails were like stretched out stones, so I tried to made segments from his original mesh but that turned out horribly since I couldn't really enlarge or scale it to its size properly and the line dents in between the toenails were not really making it easy to work on the mesh itself. So I just decided to make the toenails by adding in a cube and adjusting them to fit the shape.
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I then duplicated it 2 times for the other 2 nails and I mirrored it so I could have them on the other foot.
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Finally, for the coloring, I went into uv editing on the top and went to texture paint and I just made a circle for his belly and made everything else green.
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But for the other things like the head and the toenails and the bones he has on his back, was all done with material properties.
Final Outcome
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Reflections
Experience
The project was quite weird in my opinion.. I did like that we got to make an organic character but the way that this was made was kind of iffy for me. we could've made a character just by sculpting it but I didn't really mind too much. The hands and the organic part of making a character was pretty new so this was a good learning experience for me.
Observations
I definitely found myself struggling with the hands as they were not really working too properly from the tutorial.. I think it had something to do with being 4 fingers instead of 5 but it just kept overlapping with each other and the mesh wouldn't fill itself up if the vertex was just slightly moved. I also kind of noticed that I tend to overthink things and try the harder way which takes too much time to do so that is something I might have to fix..
Findings
Creating organic characters was pretty fun overall and this would eventually come back so I would probably spend a bit more time learning new things in blender to really hone my skills for the future. There were lots of new tools that I never tried before so I'm interested to learn about the other things that is in store for me.
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