The Final Year!
Here it is, Year 3, the final year. Year 3 means one thing, Final Major Project.
Over Summer, I had been practicing my abilities with Character Creation Pipeline and improving on speed, going from mannequin to sculpt to retopo much faster than I had done in last years project! I aimed for about 4 weeks, but I managed to get it done in around 2 and a half weeks! I do have ambitions to finish this as a personal project, but I was mainly focussed on just getting the base body established.
I’m quite surprised as I managed to try and sculpt some muscle anatomy, whilst my knowledge isn’t as vast I still think I managed to make a good effort! It ended up making me feel more confident with my sculpting abilities.
FMP, it begins.
Over summer I also had started to brief ideas and think about what I wanted to do for Final Major Project. We were tasked to create a 3×3 presentation that displays our ideas and showcases what we are thinking of doing for the final project. I approached this with 2 ideas I felt were more centered towards a role in the Games Industry; that being 3D Environment & 3D Character, whilst my last idea was more of a basis for personal study and betterment in my 2D abilities.
Idea 1 – Tectonic Control
For my first idea, I wanted to create a 3D Environment similar to the last 2 environments I have created over the span of this course. My goal is to make the best of both worlds, and use all the feedback I have recieved to create the perfect environment that I can display on my portfolio, I realise what I could’ve done better in both projects to achieve this, and if I persue this idea, I will bring that knowledge with me!
As for the idea itself, I want to have this building in a pit/canyon (like before) but have it surrounded by cliffsides and waterfalls, as if something crashed into the earth and made a crater. However, all of the surrounding land would be really dry and flakey, with cracks in the surface, and in this central building, is a device that allows the person using it, to control how the chunks of the landscape move. For example they could swap pieces out or move them higher or lower, making it an incredibly volitile space. I enjoy this idea as it allows me to create one of my favourite types of environment, whilst also giving myself more freedom on creating the landscape.
Idea 2 – Rooted Army
My second idea consisted of creating 3D characters! Whilst I do have the intentions of becoming an environmental artist, I still enjoy creating characters IF its using a pipeline I feel confident in, sometimes character work can be quite a bit stressful so I have my own processes to work around that.
In regards to my idea, I had a concept in Year 2 that I didn’t get to work on, as I didn’t feel as strongly for it as I did with O+, however, after revisiting my idea, I really want to persue it as I feel it has a lot of potential for creative freedom, this idea is the concept of warriors/soldiers that are entirely plants; ergo, plant people. I feel that having that as a basis describes the lengths I can go with designing these characters, as the opportunities are limitless, different species of plant, rootage, do they have multiple stalks? Its an idea I am quite fond of, and I would aim to have my final result be an artbook.
Idea 3 – The Scholar
I was struggling to come up with a final idea for FMP, so instead I thought of a more practical solution rather than a creative one. Considering I struggle a lot with keeping up and trying to dedicate myself to 2D work, my final idea is me taking on studies and full on 2D drawing for the entireity of my project, having weekly updates on my progress and showing all the drawing I would do in a week and what I was focussing on learning.
My aim for this idea would be to produce a fully fledged understood 2D Splash Art piece, using all the knowledge I would’ve acquired over the year to create a final drawing that would represent all that I worked on over the past year.
These are all the ideas I have for FMP, I will do some thinking and more research on each of these topics and hopefully decide which one I want to persue within the next week, of which I will most likely start drawing and developing concepts for either one of the first two, or going straight into 2D studies for my third idea, see you then!