Character Modelling Sheets

Brown_Dawg · Nov 2015

Hi everyone, just recently graduated from university whilst I was working on character projects for my groups game I always followed a practice of using a model sheet in a T-Pose when I was working in 3Ds Max. Now I am looking for a job within the industry I was just wondering if this is a common practice or would I just be given a piece of concept art to work off?

Thanks in advance

Scruples · Nov 2015

I'm guessing it depends on where you work but I would say normally, both. You can be provided with a character sheet sometimes and other times you'll just get one angle.

Brown_Dawg · Nov 2015

Would you say It best practice to work from one angle and get use to this method of workflow?

Scruples · Nov 2015

According to my old roommate, "the single 2/3rds angle is the most important angle" and I don't disagree with him. But unless the concept art is spot on you're going to have to make your own decisions regarding the form anyway.

skankerzero · Nov 2015

I've worked off fully detailed model sheets, 3/4 shots only, bar napkin sketches, text only character descriptions, concepts completely not in the final style of the game, etc.

I suggest you don't get used to only model sheets. It's important to be able to capture the spirit of the concepts regardless of what you're source material is.

Character Modelling Sheets

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