Final Year Project

Research, Reference and Preliminary Ideas As a starting point for this project, I gathered images and references to collate into moodboards of both Man and Creature, which I'll refer to as Jekyll and Hyde respectively. I decided to explore the design of Jekyll first of all as I needed to clarify what he would look like and wear in order to inform the rest of the decisions after that. I already had a rough idea of what I wanted Jekyll to look like so I explored people and faces similar to what I wanted to strengthen my idea. I intend to use the Victorian era as a guide when creating Jekyll and his outfit so that I have a slight brief to work from and to stop me from branching out too much. I looked into a lot of the fashion from Victorian and Edwardian times for inspiration, and also games which take place in that era such as Dishonored, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and The Order: 1886. As well as Google searches and Pinterest boards, I looked into...

Initial Concepts To start off my character and creature concepts I stuck to pen and paper in order to keep iterations quick and to stop myself from getting too attached to a drawing. This wasn't to take anything to a final stage, it was more just experimenting in order to get a further idea of what I wanted to create. From this, I went on to photobashing a head to try and create a face which I felt worked with my idea. I edited photos rather than starting from scratch as it allowed quicker iterations with better quality results. Above are the original images I used to paint over. I tried keeping the image I had in my mind whilst creating these, but also wanted to have enough variety to choose from. My favourite from this was the top right face. I then went on to use this when creating my sculpt.

Final Year Project Idea For this 12 week project I intend to produce a full game-ready, realistic character implemented in Unreal engine 4 using the PBR pipeline. The inspiration of my piece will be taken from Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde as I aim to produce a character who changes their features into something beastly. My main inspirations for this piece so far are examples such as 'The Order: 1886' Lycan transformation, 'The Wolfman'(2010) VFX breakdown and the real-time werewolf transformation by  YOSUKE ISHIKAWA Although a lot of my inspirations come from werewolf transformations, I aim to stray away from making Lycan or Werewolf features and try to make something more unique. To achieve this, I have gathered a variety of creature and deformed human-like artwork and images to be influenced by. By researching into myths and folklore I am able to find a broad range of inspiration, one example being a Wendigo - a g...