Theodor Obreja - Character Game Art Portfolio Journey
Hello everyone, I am Theodor, currently doing my masters in Game Art and Design. Throughout my masters I want to focus on character art. Looking forward to making connections and developing my skills. Any kind of feedback and advice is highly appreciated!
I will just break the ice with my first project:
The Mirk Character Design
The idea of this project was to design the bust of a corrupted warrior from the desert empire, which I will further try to develop and introduce in my future game. In order to make sure I keep the connection between the uncorrupted and corrupted version, I decided to sculpt both versions of the character, focusing more on the corrupted version for the final result.
Sketches:
First blockout:
Face anatomy study:
Warrior Uncorrupted version final sculpt:
Corrupted Mirk final sculpt:
Texturing and final render:
I will keep on adding future projects on this topic.
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Character background:
This character is a nomad, a travelling merchant. In his time it was said that he travelled through all the empires, been to every town and walked on every road. However, his intentions were not pure at heart. He wasn’t an evil man, but he was greedy, a sly merchant that would sell anything for coins. Thus, one day, a trickster spirit made a deal with him: to satisfy his hunger for gold, in exchange for his soul.
Little did the traveller know that the spirit would use his body for his own greed, to collect other souls. They are now sharing one body, the merchant looking for his gold, and the spirit collecting the souls of the lost wanderers.
Closeup Details:
I wanted to take the base design of the staff a little further and I added model to the front and back, representing the duality of the character.
Future details I will add:
Really looking forward for your feedback! It helps me a lot!