Game Art - Project 1: Character Design and World Creation (Concept Art)

25/9/2024 - 24/11/2024
Week 1 - Week 9
Ng Jia Ern 0363033
Game Art
Project 1: Character Design and World Creation (Concept Art)

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Instructions

Instructions


Build your world (simple level) with Unreal Engine which follows your art direction and paint over it to further enhance and create uniqueness. You are also to create your character persona based on your proposed world. Define character crisis, strength, backstory (summarized), culture, class, skins etc. This includes creating its props to further support the characters existence. Below are the list of outputs to be produced:

• Character Silhouettes - for each character (MC, Minions, Creatures, Boss, etc)
• Value Studies
• Color Pallettes
• Cleanup
• Facial Expression Basics
• Dynamic pose 3/4

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Project 1:

Character Design Process:

REFLECTIONS

For my character designs, I chose a bakery theme, with each character inspired by a specific cake flavor. Since the weapons in Zenless Zone Zero are quite creative—like scissors, folding suitcase cannons, chainsaws, flamethrowers, and drills—I wanted to design equally imaginative weapons for my characters. Staying true to the bakery theme, I came up with weapons like a frosting cannon, a whisk gun, and a fork staff. Among the three character sketches I created, I chose MeiMei to refine further. Her attack method involves shooting cream that can blind enemies and cause negative effects. Her cream cannon is much larger than her petite frame, creating a cute and humorous contrast.

The biggest challenge for me in this project was anatomy. I struggle with drawing dynamic poses, so when the character’s body twists, I often find it difficult to understand and draw accurately. To tackle this, I used the Magic Poser website as a reference, setting up the poses before drawing them. Weapon design was also a bit challenging because it was hard for me to imagine the mechanics and concepts behind guns and cannons. To overcome this, I looked at many references on Pinterest before creating my designs.