Game ART

3D Personal Projects + Drawing Practice

- GAME PRODUCTION -

I want to continue working on my game art skills throughout my placement year. This will ensure I am ready to create portfolio worthy work in my third year of Game Art. Having completed Y2, I feel I have a lot to learn and catch up on, so what better way then to be consistently practicing for an additional year to catch up with that!

Throughout the year, I wish to work on the following projects every evening at 5:30PM, (Warm up with a speed sculpt of 30 min before every session):

P1: ATHENA

Tomorrowland

STYLE: Realism

STUDY:

Hyperrealism Sculpting - Capturing Likeness

Marvellous Designer - Realistic Clothing

Substance Designer - Creating

Fibershop / Maya - Haircards

P2: LOID FORGER

SPY X Family

STYLE: ZenlessZoneZero

STUDY:

Blender - New Software

Low poly modelling

Shaders - Stylised shader to outline model

P3: Psylocke

Marvel Rivals

STYLE: Final Fantasy

STUDY:

Designing from a single concept (rotating what I see)

merging what I learnt with P1 & P2

focus on TEXTURES!

Blender

Marvellous Designer

Haircards

This eclectic mix of projects will help keep the learning fresh. I won't force myself to work on a single project at a time, instead I will allow myself to jump between the three as I please to ensure momentum never falters. The ability to work on such different characters - especially ones I feel personally connected to - will help me stay motivated and excited. Any time I ever feel stuck on one project I can simply move to another; with different style requirements and different learning opportunities, studying will always feel novel.

Enjoyment always trumps discipline, not only in consistency and millage, but more importantly; in quality.

PROJECT 1 - ATHENA

REALISM

Character: Athena

Andres Zambrano: Lady Maria - Bloodborne

Artist: Pink Hair

GOALS

This Project will be successful if:

1. REALISM - She must look real. the skin, eyes, hair, clothes must all look realistic.

2. LIKENESS - She must look like the actress

3. CUSTOMISABLE - 2 variants of clothing and hair styles.

4. PROPS - She must have realistic props

5. 2 GAME READY - rigged and posed

STUDY

To achieve my goals, I want to learn:

Hyperrealism Sculpting - Capturing Likeness

Hair Cards - Fibershop / Maya..

Marvellous Designer - Realistic Clothing

Substance Designer - Creating Patterns

Blender - Topology + Rigging + Posing

(Third Years have a 'Realistic Hair Cards' brief, learn from their methods)

SOFTWARE USED

To achieve my goals, I will use:

ZBRUSH - Base body

Marvellous Designer - Clothing

Fibreshop / Maya / Blender - Haircards

Substance Designer - Textures + Materials + Patterns

Fibershop / Maya - Haircards

Blender - Rigging + Posing

Unreal Engine - Lighting + Presentation

Reference Board

"In the feature film, Raffey Camomile Cassidy plays a young Audio-Animatronic robot girl (based on a form of robotics animation created by Walt Disney Imagineering for attractions at the theme parks) that goes out into the world and recruits suitable candidates for Tomorrowland.

In you look closely you'll see the print on her shiny retro blue dress from the 1964 New York World's Fair is actually a pattern of overlapping math equations, which is a pretty clever design element."

I want to make two 'costumes' for this character: the first being her Tomorrowland attire with her futuristic blue dress. The second being her rugged clothes, worn in the modern day. This will force me to sculpt everything - as all the projects I have done so far I have skipped over areas that "didn't matter" for the sake of saving time. Now I don't have an excuse to brush over areas that aren't seen

I will start by making a hyperrealistic base body sculpt. Focusing on the areas of skin that are always visible: her head and arms. To make the entry to this project more approachable, I will start with a bust sculpt, focusing on likeness.

I also want to recreate these two gadgets from the film. This will be the first realistic prop I model so I will juggle between sculpting Athena's face and these props during the first phase of Project 1 to balance the difficulty.

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07/07/2025