Week 1- Independant Study

Introduction to Brief: Picking Artifacts

One works that really has inspired me recently is the Animal Crossing series by Nintendo-- more specifically the Pocket Camp instalment as it is the newest, and has the highest standard of quality when it comes to models, animation, and textures. It is also fairly simplistic in style, which I feel will be a lot easier to manage. There are also nice examples of pieces of the environment that are interactive in a simple way, as one of the requirements is to have one of them moveable, or able to be animated. The other reason I picked Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is because it's cute, and I am in love with the style and customizability.

Another reason is because I worked with creating Animal Crossing assets last semester in GAMA1001, and have some preexisting, albeit, simple artifact designs that would be wonderful for modelling. I wanted to model some of them from the beginning anyways, so this feels like a nice excuse, and it makes me even more excited to dig in and try.

Looking at my designs, I have decided three separate objects that I will be using as my first models. The first will be the Vampire Clock, which I will revise and sketch to decide my final design. The second, I will go with the Gothic Vanity, something that will be a different texture, and a unique and more detailed model, and third I will be doing the Alchemist's Plant Vial, which will be simple in shapes, but colored and textured more uniquely than the rest.

I am so excited to start, I made these sketches for a separate module, and I am extremely excited to actually see them come to life in it's intended platform. I will be doing a lot of revamping of the initial sketches, just to get the design certain in my head first.

After getting the initial designs done, I switched to three smaller and simpler designs, simply because I was not at all confident in the more complex designing. I think I still need to revised some of them, especially the chair so that I can add more details. I might try resketching some of the other designs that I originally wanted to do just for the sake of challenging myself. Below is the final designs that I have.