This project was one of my first works into character modeling after i finished a master in digital animation. I started to draw some characters taking inspiration from comics, videogames and tv series and then the passage from paper into monitor was immediate. I didn’t have a complicate idea, because i wanted to follow simple shapes and learn much more about texturing and rendering instead of sculpting realistic characters. I have a great passion for cinema, i used to watch so many movies, so i put down what i had in mind in that moment: alien, vikings, samurai… Then i prepared the two image views and i started to put them into the 3d software and begin to model.
Project
Characters
What I Did
Modeling, Texturing, Rendering
Program used
Maya, Photoshop
The Creature from the Space Lagoon
The title is a repurpose in a sci-fi key of the cult horror movie The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The space suit took inspiration from the old space movies, except for the jetpack that i saw in the movie Rocketeer.
The Warrior
When i saw for the first time Asterix and Obelix i loved that kind of drawings, in a particular way the rounded shapes of the charachters that i tried to follow. I also was watching the movie Brave and i tried to mix the two styles adding some assets of the viking tradition.
The Uncle Samurai
I play with the name of the American “Uncle Sam” and the word “Samurai”. I imagined an old man like the toon character of Mister Magoo living in Japan, getting up in the morning to frighten the strangers with his sword.
