Original – Vivi
Hi guys, this is my latest submission for the recent Cubebrush’s ArtWar 2. This is my second time participating in this competition. Looking back at my first submission, I did notice that I have improved a lot over a year. This year’s theme is Light vs Dark.
My character is Vivi and she is accompany by 2 cute pandas, Keke and Aiai. My initial idea for Vivi was she was from the Dark side. Youngest daughter of the Dark Lord, able to wield earth power by drawing mana from the Earth crystal. At first I thought, due to the limited amount of colours that can represent Light, I chose Dark side to join instead.
This is my 2D Vivi design.
And these are the front and back in 3D.
After sculpting in 3D, I realised that I like simple and clean design. Therefore, I used light colours like white and red. This is where Vivi changed to Light side and this helped me in continuing the story.
Vivi was the daughter of Dark Load and a Angel. Vivi’s mum passed away after giving birth to her. Her siblings spited her because they thought Vivi caused their mum’s death. The Dark Lord was also busy fighting war against the Dwarfs. No one was able to attend to her needs, she was lonely. Therefore, she used her power and summon a few earth pandas. Her pandas served as her maids, friends and toys.
Story to be continued…
I decided to make a Dudou version of her and her pandas. How did I get this idea? It’s actually quite simple, I was playing Dynasty Warrior 9 that time. They released dudou for some of their characters. I am amazed by how simple and clean looking their designs were therefore I decided to make one myself.
The images below are the close ups of both the Dress and Dudou versions.
Same as always, I sculpted naked t-pose in zbrush and brought over to Maya for posing. I will then import back in zbrush and start blocking in the parts. After which I am satisfied with the block in, I dived right into detailing, polypainting, lighting and rendering.
With my first draft composited images completed, I went around asking my friends for critiques. With their critiques, I went back to zbrush and adjusted the models accordingly. After a few times of back and forth between asking critiques and improving the models, the images above are my conclusion.
And here is the turntable video. Enjoy.
My reasons for creating a turntable video are to share the awesomeness of my progress from blocking in to final render while enjoying the music. That’s why my videos are long. Hope that you will take your time to enjoy my video without skipping.
I am very happy with the process and the result. I am able to learn new methods along the way and to improve my pickiness for my character. Please do look forward to my future projects. See you again 🙂
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