I forgot this morning, I also made a freaky baby skeleton.
Today, instead of drawing another game character, I decided to fool around with the style that I’ve been using. This is a character that I drew a year or two ago, but wasn’t really happy with. Now I’m maybe a little happier. I don’t know.
I like these shapes a lot better, though. Those drawings that I did last week all look like junk now.
Aha! Is this our chance?
Profiling Start
Anonymous asked: How did you start off learning about 3d modeling? Did you take a class or did you just use tutorials?
If so, what type of tutorials?
It was probably about 15 years ago that I started learning, so the internet that we know today was still pretty young. I think I started with a book.
The best advice that I can give is to learn the software that you’re using. Find out how to make a triangle, weld points, set up reference images, that sort of thing. The software’s manual should have enough information to get you started. Once you do that, you have to start modeling, that’s the hard part, and no tutorial will help. You’ll just have to do it a lot for a long time.
Try modeling simple objects that you have around. Take front and side view drawings like mine and make 3d models out of them. Take photos of yourself and make a self portrait.
Most of my favorite character designs happen to come out of the far east. China, Japan, Korea. But the Assassin’s Creed games have some pretty great design. So chalk one up for French Canada.
I’m really glad that Valve used the Chell design in the game instead of any of the other ones that they worked up.
Proto Man, a character I came to like much more after listening to the Protomen’s albums.
Another cutesy video game character.
I’m doing some video game characters in the same style as my Gamefigs and this is the first of the sketches that I’ve done. I really like the designs in the Street Fighter Alpha series and Cammy’s is my favorite.