Recently most of the speed-sculpts I have done have been people. I decided to do an animal this time around. In this case it was a horse. I am have not yet decided If the animals in the game will be completely fantasy based so the horse may not be applicable. It does not however hurt to practice using more varied subject matter.

https://youtu.be/lXZa3U7X_E8

A 45 minute speed sculpt. The idea was to do a slightly cartoony character with a triangular head. The cranium is not extremely small as I was not looking to do and out and out caricature.

I think hi would be a rather quiet thoughtful character, gentle but with an underlying danger if he were to ever get angry.

https://youtu.be/Knd5MBwPaCY

This is an environment concept painting for the game using the layout for the castle I did in Houdini. I am going to do a couple of these working on the model. This is just of 2 hours of work I may put some more time into it but I decided to release the time-lapse now because I don't like really long time-lapse videos and think that a time lapse of more than 2000 times the original does not give a real Idea of what someone is doing.

https://youtu.be/HhLjxw6Fiy0

There is not much game related work that I have finished over the last couple of days. most of the work fits into fits into the "idea used as exercise but might become part of the game in future" category. The main reasons for this are that whe have had power cuts, and that a new version of Houdini has come out.

The new features that apply to me are pretty technical they are called PDG's and will be very useful. The will however take a long time to get used to.

This exercise is a sculpt using reference of a fighter. I will need to design more enemies and therefore want to have some rougher features. This was also a chance to work no getting the points of the face right as it is always a good idea to work on your anatomy knowledge.

https://youtu.be/8ywOH-v3UVY

It has been a pretty bad day, I managed to break my scanner . It was my fault, it's the hazards of being a large clumsy oaf. So I am not going to be able to post any drawings for a while. Apart from that I have managed to get quite a bit done although not enough in the engine itself.

This video is more of me detailing the scale character. This will be a generic character and I use him to work on a lost of the animation I will also be testing the facial rigs on him. At the moment I am working on the topology but I will try to make the character better looking once the main mesh is finished.

https://youtu.be/1Ooi-kHyMdQ

A quick sculpt a an armored reptile. I vacillated between a type of lizard and a type of turtle I ave still not made up my mind. I might come back to this at some point and decide.

I kept his head on the round side which makes him a bit cutesy which might make him unsuitable for the game when I decide on the final art style .

https://youtu.be/i7OAd7IoR_U

These are sculpting exercises, they are similar to the speed-paints as they are done in a limited amount of time an the look of the final piece is not of primary importance. I have not done any sculpting for long time so i really need to sharpen up before the basic rig meshes are finished. The base mesh will be used to sculpt the actual in game characters.

These are pretty ugly but they are useful for improving you sculpting.

https://youtu.be/u7UyEBwyxwI

finishing this took a lot longer than I had planned. Replacing my ramblings with intelligible audio can take quite a while. The fact that the weather has been very hot has only made matters worse.

In any case this is the next phase with the stairs as I add sides to them and also add in banisters.

https://youtu.be/lvcbqA68rpI

#devlog #modelling #houdini

A rough colour sketch for this character. It is a long way from a finished work but as I have a long way to go in terms of the project as a whole I will leave it in this state for now.

https://youtu.be/ovhZhYx_wBA

This a time-lapse of a system I have been working on in order to allow me to layout levels more quickly. I need to get buildings to a workable state quickly so that I can work on game-play, environment as story elements. This system is based on creating rough floor plans lo allow me to quickly generate the geometry based off image maps. The system is hardly revolutionary but it does allow you to get scene elements of the correct scale (especially buildings) very quickly.

https://youtu.be/5tRxHIPjY0c

This a very rough character sketch. I have not been doing enough work on my digital painting and it shows it also serves as a lesson as to why one should use reference as there are a lot of things wrong with it.

https://youtu.be/lAr4hhaJA_M

The main point however is not to make a good drawing but to develop characters and their emotions and moods in order to construct the game world and story. In this case quantity is far more important than quality as I will choose the works I need to develop as I get further into the project. At the moment I am doing too little and I need to step it up a bit.

In another devlog that aproaches eing a tutorial I cover the modelling of the basic stairs. these will be used to block out basic levels and the geometry will later be swapped out with a more detailed version.

https://youtu.be/K4q3CGKi4YE

A time-lapse of the me modelling of the basic character.

https://youtu.be/EaCsCf9CRvY