Independent Project - Character Design 2

 Character Design 2

Character name: N/A (you may call it one eyed monster)

Inspirations:   

I would like to talk about my inspiration first. For this model, I spent a lot of time thinking of what or how it should look like. As I am getting ideas from my real life, and I am at the UK which rains all the time, I came up with an idea which is umbrella. And combine another idea of mine that is eye or eyeball, I started to search "One eyed creatures".

On wiki, there is a list provided that shows many one eyed creatures. I saw a Japanese Yokai(Monster) called Kasa-Obake. I believe its look is very famous for everyone who watched some Japanese animations.


After setting the kasa-obake as the inspiration/idea. I start to think of how my model should look. But I did not started modeling. Instead, I tested so many times on how the umbrella can be made. Here are the unused blender files, I've spent over a week to figure it out:

Result:

The outcome is really good, I tried to turn it into a modern umbrella which is different from the kasa-obake's one that is supposed to be paper made umbrella. I made the bones of the umbrella more appearing, and the shape of the pieces between each bones are kind of popped up.

And for the legs, instead of one leg, I chose to make 2 legs. I thought it would be easier to animate or set the armature.

Overall, it loos good to me. I think I have spent more than at least 30 hours on making this model.

Animating: Same as the previous post. Easiest and the funniest part.


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