Week 10/17/2021

Introduction

This week I watched videos from this Vtuber called "Mako Ray". They make videos to give out great advice for people who already knew how to use Blender or just starting out. I decided that I wanted to make a character similar to the ones from the popular game called, "Genshin Impact." The game "Genshin Impact is an RPG fantasy world filled with lore and gorgeous aesthetics and characters.

Inspiration

Mihoyo's characters are taking Twitter by storm. He has worked on multiple games such as "Honkai Impact, Gun Girls Z, and Tears of Themis."  Two out of the 3 have 3D models in an animated-like form rather than realistic. Their characters are super cute and it truly looks like hard work for each individual character rather than a copy and paste.

Brainstorming

I do not have the artistic ability like a group of artists, but I can take inspiration to how to model the characters. Mihoyo actually releases his characters out to the public for his fandom to mess around with. If I ever want to figure out how he model's one thing I can always load up the model or see it on sketchfab to figure out what I must do to make it look the way I wanted it to.

Genshin Impact: Scaramouche by Alqueit on Sketchfab

Experimental

I have not yet started my character modeling process mostly due to the fact I want to finish watched Mako Ray's tutorials first then going through and rewatching it alongside me working on the model. He also suggested this for first-time makers.

Process

Have not started the process, but I can already tell that rigging and hair psychics are going to be the death of me.

Reflection

Have not started the process. Do not have a reflection yet.