ESCAPE - Soul Escape - AnthonySaxon

Noxas

Hey polycount community, I'm new to 3D rendering and modeling but I want to take this chance to learn as much as possible.

I am thinking about depicting a soul escaping the body using a very dark gothic style simular to the opening sequence in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. My characters soul is tired of being confined within its current body. I want to show the body being weighted down by black liquid and chains and depict various scars on my characters body that represent ideals, social conditioning, guilt and confusion. I see the character on his knees screaming as the soul fights its way from the body. The character will be grabing his soul with one hand while the other is weighted down with chains and liquid unable to move. I'm also thinking about having shadowy figures around the character with computers attempting to reprogram him and aid in his fight to force the soul trying to gain freedom back into his body.

Here is my reference art that kind of capture the feel I am going for.

Noxas

So here is my blocked out level with my character in front. Still haven't figured out how I'm going to do a soul coming from his body but i'm working on it. All critiques, criticism and advice are welcome. I don't know if i'll still have the other characters surrounded the main character trying to reprogram him. We shall see how tough it is to do one high poly character model.

Original Concept Art






Blocked Out Level

DiHydro

Very cool idea, I loved the intro on that movie. Good luck.

Noxas

Here is my base mesh character. I'm going to add finer details to him in mudbox. So far so good I think. Let me know what y'all think.

Base Mesh

Noxas

Here is a look at the high poly model of my main character (used Doctore from spartacus as a guide)

Let me know what y'all think

Front


Side1


Side2


Back

Noxas

So here is my final submission. Unfortunately I did not come very close to my original concept but I was able to adapt and create a new piece that still holds some of my original concepts main ideas. I learned a lot about scooping during this journey. I used Unity3D for my beauty shots

Beauty Shot 1



Beauty Shot 2



Wire Frame Character rig



Base Chains



Lighting Setup



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