WIP: test project "Gardevoir"
Good day/evening everyone, today I mustered enough motivation to chase an old dream of mine of making my own proper videogame calling it "project ALT" for now.
but before even tackling the drawing board for that one I decided to start a small test project that in order to pickup any missing skills that i might need for the main project as well as take note of most creation pitfalls and challenges that i might have to deal with.
Plz bear in mind that im 100% self-taught so might have missed some missing fundamentals or wrong technical
terms, I would appreciate pointing out even smallest mistake or providing any advice that'll helps me improve .
Enter test project "Gardevoir" where I'll be creating one of my favorite characters from the gen3 pokemons and hopefully get to a point where it has:
- a good mesh structure for current modern games as far as polycount and topology goes
- have basic locomotion animations (controllable within Unreal Engine)
- customizable to certain extent (making use of the new Mutable Character system within UE5.4)
After collecting an initial ref board I put together a quick primitive blockout to explore the proportions that Im going after for the character looking for something between (pokemon, overwatch & disney) as far as shape language go
Then I imported those into Zbrush and started working out the silhouette and some of the of the planes bit by bit
Mainly using the "move brush" and the "gizmo tool" and the "pinch brush" while keep all the subtools separate
I Started somewhat defining the secondary shapes to an exaggerated degree (plz excuse my anatomical nonsense xD) then I might dampen those out as i go
I after reaching a point where Im content with silhouette I decided its time to make the merge for the body subtools and start sculpting on it .
and this marks my "Day1" progress