Tuesday 7 February 2012

Pipe Line for Creating Characters for a Game 1

Pipe Line for Creating Characters for a Game
 (Not Sure at this point - May be too much)
 Completed  
Still Working on  
Not Started Yet

1)      Preproduction



   Project  Start: Analyse book 'The Demon Thief' and establish Focus/ aim 

Establish 2- 3 Characters from the book that are all uniquely different and central to story 

Style research - Find Visual examples of style and refinement 

Visual Research - Real world influences that fit world of book 

Art Direction - Sketches, colour palettes, thumbnails, intial concepts, shapes

(Rough Environment sketches to tell more about character's personality - As learnt in Character Design Project

Concept  Art - refining ideas, getting closer to final

Finalised Paintings - Refined Concept art

Pre Viz - basic first models, practise rigs and animating to work out how they would move




2)  Production

Modelling of characters - refining from Previz

Final Models - The Finished Models after mistakes/ trail errors etc

Normal Maps and Texture - Layout and texture models

Turnabout Renders of each character

Walk Cycles for Kernel and Cadaver

Hover Cycle for Lord Loss

(Some Magic scenes - how characters would chanel their powers using dynamics)

Renders - Beauty, Ambient Occlusion, Z - Depth (Glow and FX if required)



3) Post Production

Copositing Combine Render Passes into final Stills

Export Walk Cycles

Marketing -

Making Of

Technical Paper

Demo Reel Shot - Still of best character or walk cycle













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