Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Radiantly Mad King - Week 3

The Fat Queen
I spent time this week designing the queen and her outfit. After gathering a collection of old queen paintings I began copying their forms to commit them to memory (clothing design is not my thing). I then decided that the queen, being her arrogant self would not openly note her own weight so I drew her dress as if it was designed for a thinner figure. When drawn onto the queen's body, the dress becomes stretched and strained with bulges of fat folding out around her sides. I attempted to look up references for this sort of thing but google was not being friendly with its search results.

At some point I drew a front facing image of the queen's face, matching up the contours of her wrinkles as best as I could. Add a bit more grin and a bit less age and it'll be right where I want it.

Finally, I messed with her color a bit. I had basic color schemes for the guard, minstrel, and the king and when I quickly sketched an idea for the steward, I immediately liked the result (purple and gold). I took these and lined them up next to different color schemes (which will remain up in the air until I get to the texturing process).






Everything Else
This week I ordered some resources that will come in handy later in the quarter. I bought a book on dynamic posing, a dvd on character rigging, and a digital tutorial on exporting and rendering displacements properly from ZBrush (a workflow that can easily help with Mudbox as well). I read a few articles about good character design (which all turn out the same in the end) as well as an assortment of other tutorials from my 3D Artist magazines.

At some point in my sketching, I redrew the three non-royal characters in simple T poses. Displayed next to each other gives a better sense of the style I'm going for. I also drew the steward for the first time and liked the result.






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