ANATOMY & CHARACTER SCULPTURE PROJECT 2 - OUTFIT & PROPS SCULPTING
Week 8-Week 11
Christopher Jayson Tan/ 0378500
Anatomy & Character Sculpture / Bachelors of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Anatomy & Character Sculpture Project 2 -Outfit & Props Sculpting
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INSTRUCTIONS
2. TASK
3. REFLECTION
INSTRUCTIONS
Introduction
This project builds upon Project 1 (skull & body mesh) by introducing the design and sculpting of outfits and props. Students will explore how costume design and accessories communicate personality, culture, and narrative in character development. This exercise emphasizes both aesthetic design and technical sculpting of clothing, armour, accessories, and props.
Project Brief
Students are required to design and sculpt a complete outfit and at least one prop for their character. The focus should be on design originality, functional detail, and how outfit/props enhance the character’s identity. Sculpting techniques such as cloth folds, layering, ornamentation, and surface detailing must be applied.
Consultation is compulsory for progress monitoring, and failure to show development may result in mark deduction. Attendance will be taken digitally and manually by the lecturer as precaution.
TASK
For this part, I was told by my lecturer that I can still polish the inital body mesh first before doing the outfit, and so that's what I did. I made some major changes to the silhouette. I also made some more definitions to the head area and try to tone down the exaggeration. I also made the abdomen part larger so that it doesn't look too odd.
Figure 2.1 Changes to the body mesh
After that, I started the blocking process for the clothing. I use cylinder shapes and such, relying on mainly basic shapes and I focus on the big shapes first.
Figure 2.2 Blocking the outfit
After that I worked on the smaller objects such as the bolts, metal connectors. I also utilize the boolean tools quite a lot to create the necessary shapes. I also created the chains for the cuffs on the arms and the abdomen.
Figure 2.2 Creating the smaller objects and utilizing booleans
Once it was done, I zremeshed everything and divide the subtools to reach higher polycount. I made the worn look using the damstandard tool as well as the claybuildup, and my main goal was to really roughen up the appearance. Overall the process is very linear and after this is done, I moved to the coloring process.
Figure 2.3 Tertiary detailing
The coloring process is very simple, I only needed to use a spray brush, and use a dot like alpha and made transitions between the colors. I made sure to mix and match the colors so that it looks natural and more appealing. I also added in purple bluish color for the veins so that it harmonizes properly with the surrounding color. I added in the blood on the hands to give a visual storytelling that the creature did kill people and crushed them with his hands.
Figure 2.4 Coloring body mesh
For the metal parts, I applied a metal material to the subtools and then started from there. I added in rust effect, and the worn metal look by combining several different colors. After that I colored in the scratches with a lighter color so that it looks like a proper damage metal. I also added in some blood so that it blends properly with the creatures damaged state as well as his bloodied hands.
Figure 2.5 Coloring outfit
Before calling it done, I refined the body mesh further so that it looks more accurate. I received further feedback from the lecturer and I applied it to my work and most of them were related with the muscle size and proportions. I mostly changed the back muscle because it is the major shape that looks out of place and after I was done, I then recolored the yellow inner body color into more of a light purple because It harmonizes better with the dominant purple color and after that I was done.
Figure 2.5 Revised body shape and color (frontview)
Figure 2.6 Revised body shape and color (backview)
REFLECTION
I had some struggles during this task mainly during the initial outfit creation phase because it is my first time ever in creating hardsurface models and so I faced a lot of problems. Once the that phase is over with, the rest are mostly simple because it only involves detailing and coloring. What became surprising to me though is how many times I went over the process of correcting the muscles and the overall shape of the body which became quite confusing at one point but I manage to pull through.
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