3D Modelling - Project 4

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3D Modelling
22.4.2023 - 10.5.2023
Johnny Lam Wee Zhe (0363436)
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

 INSTRUCTION

 
 

PROJECT 4 - CHARACTER MODELING

This is the final project for this module and we are assigned to create a 3D modelling of our own character. The lecturer has encouraged us to find blue prints of characters on the website due to time constraints and not having enough time to design our own characters. Since Courage the Cowardly Dog is was my favorite cartoon as a child, I decide to pick a character from there.

My original plan is to create a 3D model of Muriel so I download the character turnaround sheet of her. Here is what I've download:
 

Fig 1.1 Character Turnaround Sheet of Muriel

As I tried to model her out, I begin to struggle with creating the model after her and have not been able to figure out how do so, especially her head area. Looking up online for guides proves to be rather fruitless so I change my character to go for Courage himself instead. So I download the turn around sheet of him.

Fig 1.2 Character Turn Around Sheet for Courage

I start of with a cylindrical shape for the body of Courage including the head for him, his arms and legs are made using a combination of a cylinder and UV sphere, his ears are made from cylinder and his tail is made from a plane.
 
Fig 2.1 A plane for his tail
 

It is a rather challenging to model out a character that is design merely for 2D animation, especially with placement of the ears and the eyeball. In the end, I simply decide to put the eyes in the front while the ears would follow the character turnaround sheet.
 
Once I'm done with the modelling, I apply an appropriate color for the material and used the UV unwrap that I've learnt in class in order to texture paint the two dots at the back of Courage. I also use the same technique to draw his eyes.

Fig 2.2 Drawing the two dots on his back

Fig 2.3 Drawing a pupil on his eyes

Once I finish up the model, I decide to create the setup for the character. Originally, I wanted to do a model where Courage stands in front of a dark doorway looking at the camera and inside the doorways is a monster. However, the instruction and the example given about this project does not seem to recommend something of this sort so I scrap the idea and just go for a simple idea of him standing in the rooms instead.

To make up for the lack of theme,  I decide to use the wallpaper of the living room setting of the TV show and is unable to find any suitable wallpaper for the project so I decide to create on myself using free drawing app, Krita.

Fig 3. Drawing a flower pattern in Krita

Once I'm done, I apply the three point lighting which is what is suggested in the instruction. I actually have no idea what a three point lighting is. So I look it up and found this on Youtube:

Fig 4. 3 Point Lighting

Following the instructions,  I then do the set up as show here:


Fig 4.4 Three point lighting setup

FINAL RESULT

Fig 5. Final Result

REFLECTION

By doing this project,  I have found that I am not really good in modelling character and have difficulty in modelling them. I even struggle to model Courage at time and I'm not sure how to got about it from a simple shape. There is clearly a lot to learn in order to master the sue of blender but I'll leave it for future project. Overall though, it is a good experience to have and perhaps in the future project, I'd be more prepared to animate actual character. My only wish is that we have more time to learn about blender as three months does not seem to be enough when it come to learning blender.

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