Biped Project

During the course of 4 weeks (February 25 - March 22, 2013), we were to design a character, create a traditional clay maquette of it, and then model it in 3D. I created a vampire character by the name Maurice Château, and I had a great amount of fun throughout the whole process of creating him.

Concept sketch (Photoshop CS6): 
Teacher: Gábor Steisinger

Traditional maquette (Chavant clay): 
Teacher: Lasse Smith

3D model (Maya, Mudbox):

Teacher: Daniel Burwen

Materials

Teacher: Ole Gulbrandsen
Week 4

This week we focused on observing and understanding different materials, and to do that, we painted still life images in Photoshop. Here's some of the things I made:

Storyboard week

Teacher: Niall Laverty 
Week 3

We've had one week of storyboards now, and it was a lot of work, but also very enjoyable. Here's a little bit of what I've done:

Snowball fight: 

 Group work:

We teamed up in pairs and created a storyboard together based on some dialogue we had to add. Here's a few pages by me and a fellow student Anne Birk Petersen:

 

Design 2

Teacher: Lawrence Marvit
Week 2

Another intense week of design work is now over, and I'm very happy to see progress from last time. We got 3 different and challenging assignments, all to be rendered in black and white, and I enjoyed them all very much.

Weapon of Atlantis:
Here I made a dead shark that can shoot jellyfish.

Dead Pirates in Venice:
I wanted a dark and threatening atmosphere, so then I made the pirates lurk in the shadows.

Fairy City:
I designed a more wild-looking kind of fairies, and their homes.

Project 4550: Superheroes

Over the last 6 weeks of our first semester, we were working on a project called 4550. The task was to design a superhero character and create a 2D killershot image that we would later create into a 3D image. Our style guide was Pocoyo, though we moved a bit away from that as the project went on.

DESIGN
Teacher: Luis Cook
The first week was spent designing our characters, and coming up with a good background story and setting for them. We then created our killershot images based on our ideas, and made some turnaround sketches of our characters that we could model after. My character is a young teenage girl called Amber, whose power is to turn into pure energy. Her superhero name is Shooting Star.

3D MODELING
Teacher: Leigh Russel
The next 3 weeks were spent modeling, UV mapping and rigging our characters, so that we could pose them as we wanted. All work was done in Maya.

LIGHTING AND TEXTURING
Teacher: Bo Mathorne
The last 2 weeks we worked on texturing, lighting and rendering, something I enjoyed very much. Compositing was done in After Effects and Photoshop CS6. The final result ended up looking like this.

Overall, I've enjoyed the project very much, despite technical difficulties sometimes during the process. I have learned a lot, and I look forward to see how much I've improved by the time we get our next big project.

First 3D project - Maya

I finally got to try my hands at 3D modelling, and I thoroughly enjoy it. It is of course very techical and new to me, but still it makes a lot of sense once you get it. I spent 4 days on this project, creating a diorama of a small environment. The sky was added later with Photoshop.

 

 

 

Date completed: October 12, 2012.

Teacher: Bo Mathorne.

Design and construction

Assignment from the design week. Our task was to create an environment with a character, and the subject was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. We were allowed to use black, white and 2 shades of gray. The goal was to use the design elements we had learned that week to create a spesific mood in the picture. It took about a day to complete.

 

Completed: September 28, 2012.

 

The next piece is from the second week, where we had construction and rendering. Again the task was to create an environment, and we were encouraged to use a lot of perspective. I created a morbid Gargoyle Temple that is being visited by a group of happy Japanese tourists, and I had a lot of fun playing around with the contrasting themes. Finished in about 2 days.

 

Completed: October 5, 2012.

Teacher: Lawrence Marvit