For our Summer Project we were set the task to design and model our own cyborg character. I set about putting a mood board together, I initially wanted to do a 'Pirate skeleton cyborg' but ended up deciding to not do the bones as I thought flesh would be easier to model. This is the first time we have really been asked to model start to finish with our own design and I'm not going to lie I did struggle. Although I struggled with the modelling process, I did however enjoy the design part of the task, drawing is something I have only really picked up in the last year. So I really put some effort in with my concept and I'm really happy with how the picture turned out. In my opinion it is the best piece of art I have produced so far.
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| Mood board |
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| Model Sheet |
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| Character Concept |
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| Story |
However... When I started to model the character I ran into a few problems. I found it simple enough to follow my model sheet and was pleasantly surprised that my basic model resembled some sort of a human. Once I had finished doing the limbs and torso I decided to work up the cyborg arm and I don't know what happened at this point but I selected an option in one of the menus and it split all my edges/verts and pretty much doubled my polycount.
Now I probably should have started over, but I foolishly decided to try and correct this and after moving a quite a lot of verts around I ended up with a mess of triangles and I know triangles are bad for character modelling.
At this point I decided to export it to Mudbox, however Mudbox complained and told me my model was bad.
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