BA3a - Week 10 Summary

This week I started working on the mounts and nailing down their final design. The lion design I am more comfortable with so I decided first focus on working out the deer mounts final look. I hadn't yet drawn out the final idea with the RGB colours as the three heads so I started with that.

I started off with the body and one head as a single colour with the heads coming off as two separate colours, but then I got advised to make the body a normal deer and the heads be the different colours. I also wanted to have the mixed colours be shown too between the heads as if they're glitching together and mixing up.

Below is the sketch, lineart and final piece for the deer model sheet.

I'm still not 100% sure on how this one looks as the deer heads don't seem to 'pop' enough. I may need to rework this one further. I also struggled with around the heads, and decided to add small particle like effects using the outer glow layer effects I already had set on each head to show that the heads are not real heads and are in fact something like holographic. Overall however I'm pleased with the design.

Below are the photos I used as reference for the deer:

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I also worked on the pixel lion mount designs model sheet. 

Overall I am extremely pleased with this design, it is one of my favourites. To achieve the look of the mane there are many layers of colours that I used the mosaic pixel settings to create this large pixelation effect. It was quite difficult to get the result I wanted at first but I started to layer it up and it started to build a nice feeling to the mane. On some of the layers there are also effects with outer glow settings. I really like how the colours worked together in this piece and am happy with the end result. 

Below are the reference images for the lion:

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We also had a task this week as usual. The brief was between a character and an environment design, so I chose the character one. It was as seen below.

I decided after some research to reinvent the Krampus. Below is my result with the thumbnails.

I decided because Krampus is usually a "- horned, anthropomorphic figure described as "half-goat, half-demon", who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved" (x) and is most likely seen as a male character, I would make mine a more goatlike female character who instead of punishing bad children, she makes mince pies for the good children. People don't know this however due to the staining on her apron and her scary appearance. The Krampus also usually has a lolling long tongue so I took it further and made her tongue very long. This is another piece that felt extremely rushed as we had to get it in by the evening, but I feel like with the time given I am somewhat happy with the results. I feel like the character isn't very dynamic in the scene and looks a bit cut out from the scene, but overall a good piece.

Here are the images I used as reference:

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