Here is my work-in-progress from a Volition Character Artist test that we abandoned some time ago as it has proven to take too much time for the applicant to complete to a quality result. It looked like fun and I wanted to validate the findings myself.
The basic approach I took was starting from scratch with […]
about 10 years ago
Hello !
Great work ! What is your inspiration for this character ? (I know it’s old 🙂 )
about 10 years ago
Heh, yeah…it is old. Well, there isn’t much “inspiration” behind it. I’m sure many of us have ideas for animated shorts and I was toying around with a beauty-and-the-beast concept, albeit a little more Native American Indian crossed with Final Fantasy’s summons. The short animation was going to be this character climbing to a mountain nest, taming a large winged creature, and then riding it. Actually, it occurs to me now this it was similar in approach to Avatar without the full development exploration and resulting blue skin 😛 I believe I have some concept paintings of the ‘Rhino Bird’ elsewhere on the site. I do have a 3d model, but never quite decided how I wanted to handle the feathers or wings and it has been stuck in limbo ever since.
Thanks for the interest and question.