CHARACTER DESIGNS and MODEL FEEDBACK for the short film “Plot Twist” directed by Rodrigo Costa
Over a course of a couple of months I sat together in the weekends with Rodrigo to develop the characters for his short film. I also oversaw the modelling of the characters in the initial stages by doing drawovers for the modellers. The inital 3D Models of the buff guy (Buffy), the knight (Elrick) and the pig (Waldi) were done by Aaron Hunwick. You can see the finished coloured designs and the finished 3D models that Aaron made underneath. Below that block of pictures are some development sketches and explorations and the model draw overs. I like the process of finding the characters in 2D and 3D so I thought this would be interesting to show.
We developed the short film in our spare time and after getting a team together on Artella it caught some momentum. However, it unfortunately was never finished and we stopped working on it now.
In 2021 Aaron updated the 3D models of Elrick (the knight), Buffy (the buff guy) and Waldi (the pig), you can see them next to my character designs.
In 2023 I picked up the rigs again and am in the process of creating a little animation. For now it is still WIP but you can watch it here:
Keep in mind, it is currently still a Work In Progress!
I also posed a few expressions with the Buffy rig. It has been updated since then but here you can see a work in progress:
