3D week 06 – Assignment 3: part 1

Hi everybody!

This week we started to work on our assignment 3, which will be a humanoid character (it doesn’t have to be a human but as long as it has two arms, two legs, a head etc. it’s okay).

When creating a character first of you will do a concept of what kind of character it is. Like if it is a human or a monster or whatever, if it is male or female, if it’s young, old etc. a kind of background check so here we go for my character.

Obviously my character concept is inspired from the Pokémon Squirtle. Squirtle lives in a world that is populated with humans and fantasy animals. The animals/Pokémon’s have different ability’s according to elements such as earth, metal, air, fire, water etc. Squirtle is a water type Pokémon so he would live near water or in water. According to the Anime I would say that the world takes place in current time. The people in this world have “smart devices” and a pretty high standard technology very well comparable to what we have in our world in present time.

About gender and age, my Squirtle is a male in his younger teenage years. Compared to human age he would then be around 13-14 years old boy. The differentness between a female Squirtle and a male Squirtle can’t really be spot and they are unisex in their appearance so there is really no definition for the genders. Squirtle is like a koala in size, around 70- 80 centimetres in height and weights 10 to 15 kilos. His skin is of amphibian type, scale and dry skin that is.

The Humans are the leaders in this society while the Pokémon’s are more like pets to them. The wild Pokémon’s often want to stay free and not being captured by humans so whenever they are being approached by a human they often stay aggressive and defensive, and will fight for their freedom. The Pokémon’s doesn’t seem to mind though once they have been caught by a human (if this isn’t Stockholm syndrome then what is? and no one seem to think it is weird lol). The captured Pokémon’s often becomes best friend with the human that caught them so once the dramatic kidnapping is over everything is very peaceful and happy. My character is still a free Squirtle though.

The economy for humans would be something compared to what we use such as coins and bills. The Pokémon’s use more of a trade form in their economy. They trade food or objects for food and objects so the Pokémon’s don’t use an actual currency when performing trades.

Well I guess that’s it for the background of my character. So here’s the turn around the model should be made from made by me using illustrator.

 

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But as in this assignment we’re not going to make our own characters I’m not going to model my own Squirtle. The guy who is making my concept is named Alexander Westerdahl (you can find his blog here if you want to follow up this project or just check out his work, which I think you should as he is a great 3D artist). I am going to make a concept from Seamus Newman (blog here, and you should really check him out aswell) which I will blog about next.

And until then; take care!

-Lui