It's ALIVE!!!!!

The Shambler is born, it took a while but I have arrived at something that is freaky enough yet retains a good human feel. I won't go into details about why he is dressed that way or what he has in the bag but after fiddling with quick paint concepts and getting frustrated by them i went back to my old favorite pen and paper and quickly came up with this fellow. In retrospect though I do think the paints helped to loosen up the design and helped me pull away from overtly useless detail at this early stage of concept.


On another note that is linked to this character I have decided to focus on building the monster over the female lead, the reasons for doing him over Cassie became obvious to me. First is the fact that I have already done a female model this year and whilst not perfect it does show improvement in my ability to understand topology and the human body, secondly I know I will have a lot more fun doing the Shambler as it will enable me to really express by abilities in both Mudbox and Maya, there is a but though. If I have time and achieve a high standard with the first model I will proceed to do Cassie, maybe not as a whole character but as a head only but this is purely going to play into times hands in the next semester.