BONANZAI Project- Characters

Below are the characters for the semester project. One constraint that we were given is that we had to work in a particular house style. These were completed for class, but I still have some more changes in mind. :)

Hero, The Mountain Man, Jebediah Schmidt

Villain, The Rat, Arata Kano

 

BONANZAI Project- Props

This semester we working on a project that is a combination Akira Kurosawa meets Deadwood. At the beginning of the semester all projects students got a design document in a form of a story, created by one of our professors. The story was made up of several chapters and each student had to choose one to focus on. From that chapter we pulled props, vehicles, environments, and characters to design. After all these items have been created they will become pieces to our end of the semester group project, a 30 second animated trailer.

In this post and the following I thought I would share some of the finished work and some of the process work that went into this project.

The first prop for my character is his trusty Hawken rifle

The vehicle for the chapter was a Mountain Howitzer.

The last thing we designed was an environment. My chapter took place in the Pacific North West.

Enviroment Sketches

Digging Animal Sketches

Just for fun

Bikini

This is something I started working on last semester.

Vehicle Animation

Below is my final for the Fall Computer Graphics class. I had a really good time modeling and texturing my vehicle, you saw a little bit of that earlier in the semester. For the final we had to animate the vehicle however we liked. I decided to tell a little silly story with my animation. I had bit of hard time once I started animating (animation is one of my weaker areas), but I made it through it. :) Please enjoy.