3D char

Create detailed mood boards and mind maps for your character. Annotate and underline key info
Narrative development (backstory) of character – approximately 200 words
Identify and analyse your IP in an analysis of their characters art style – 200-300 words
Create a range of loose silhouettes and sketches for your character. explore 3×3 initial concepts MINIMUM each idea should be rough and take under 5 mins to produce
Select 3 of your preferred rough ideas and refine these further adding details, and solidifying your design.
Pick your final design and develop forward to final concept – minimum presentation linework/greyscale shading
From this concept create a “turn around” of your character showing front side and back views of your character. Separate any assets like weapons, or key character items to one side of the turn around like shown in the example. ensure all views have equal proportions and sizes.

STORY>

Oh, now listen to the fable about Tabaki, the devilish lad from the people of vain devils-scoundrel! You don’t just have some tricksters there – this is a devilish tribe, which is bred not from storks or the stove, but from the warty alder! There grows a tree, and on it instead of cones – pot-bellied and tailed devils.They live in their Dusty Nest – a town where every house is on chicken legs, and instead of a bell tower – a cauldron with soup made of human tears.

The Old Devil, who grew his mustache back in Kievan Rus, teaches the little devils the art of entertainment: how to put salt in a spoon instead of sugar, how to hide the glasses the pie, or how to make the alarm clock ring at three in the morning – because otherwise the person will be bored, and we don’t want that, do we?

So when the time came for the exams, our hero — Tabaki, an ambitious tailed scoundrel — passed them with Excellence with a bang and decided – Why should I wander around in petty villages, I’ll go to the king himself! There are more scales, palaces, and servants to do dirty work there! And the king, it said, lives on the other side of the World Turtle, so the path is not short. Tabaki spat on the map and went where the devil’s eyes look. And so — on the way he found the tower of some ancient magician, ruined, torn, but with a surprise. Namely — a talking book, which, apparently, got so bored in that tower that it chattered in human language: Oh, brother, take me with you! I’ll show you the way, teach you tricks, give you magic, just take me to the adventure!

Tabaki, though young, did not fall out of the tree yesterday – his sense of smell is no worse than a pig’s. He immediately suspected that the book was a trick. But magic, you know, wouldn’t hurt either – with it you can do sophisticated mischief, with lightning and fireworks! So our hero decided to pretend to be a fool, the slyest of all fools, and agreed.

And now they are traveling together: the devil-lad and the talking book, laughing under the noses of villages, scaring people, looking for kings… And ahead – both adventures and tricks, and maybe even friendship, if they don’t throw each other into a vat with frogs!

-200words V

Listen to the fable about Tabaki – a tailed rascal from the tribe of demons, who comes not from a stove or a stork, but from a warty alder, where pot-bellied imps grow instead of cones. They live in the Dusty Nest – a town on chicken legs, with a cauldron of human tears instead of a bell tower.The Old Devil, who grew a mustache back in Kievan Rus, teaches the young to have fun: how to replace sugar with salt, how to hide a glassesl in a pie, or set an alarm clock for three in the morning – because otherwise people will be bored, and we don’t want that, do we? Tabaki passed the exams on rascality with “excellence” and decided: enough of sitting, I’ll go to the king himself! More pathos, more servants – more rascality! And the king, they say, lives behind the World Turtle. Tabaki threw away the card and set off blindly. And here is the old magician’s tower, ruined, but with a surprise: a talking book that begged: Take me! I will teach, show, give magic! Tabaki suspected a trap, but magic is a convenient thing. So he played the fool and agreed. Now they travel together: the devil cat and the talking book. They scare people, laugh, look for the king… And ahead are adventures, intrigues, and, maybe, even friendship (if they don’t drown each other in a potof frogs!).

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Having chosen three games for comparison, I created character sketches in their style, which helped me better understand the different approaches to visual design. Among the selected styles, the art style of League of Legends (LoL) appealed to me the most. It combines high detail, expressive stylization, and a bright color palette, which allows you to create memorable and charismatic characters. The LoL style is close to me, as I prefer elaborate shapes, decorative elements, and visual depth. In this style, characters have a strong individuality – not only due to facial features, but also through costumes, silhouettes, accessories, and colors that reveal the character’s character and function in the game. For example, a character’s malice or cunning can be shown using pointed shapes, a contrasting palette or a dynamic silhouette. In my own project, I chose this approach to create my character Tabaki. I tried to style it according to LoL principles – adding an interesting shape, elements of clothing, a magic book as a key detail, and a bold color. This approach allows you to make the character not only aesthetically appealing but also ready to integrate into the game world with its own story and functionality.

Made a few sketches with the picked model.

First “turn around”

new version. Received feedback from Mike, also agree that the younger version is more interesting. difficult to transfer one good version to a different variation and save the main features.