Brink Character 1

I was commenting elsewhere a while back that there was something I just really don't like about the characters in the forthcoming game Brink by Splash Damage. I've been finding it hard to quantify though. I love stylised characters, but these don't sit right with me.

Then someone posted a link to a blog covering the art direction and that included some concepts of the characters. And although they're pretty similar to the end result I find them much better than the models.

And that bothered me too, so I thought I'd have a go at sculpting a character from the concepts to see if they came out like the models I don't like and maybe figure out what is I don't like about the end result and at what point it changes.

Here is the original blog post.

And here's my sculpt so far.

Anatomy Study Woman Standing Stage 2

I've been meaning to catch up on my anatomy studies, but haven't gotten around to it for ages.

This is still at subdivision level 2, just with more work done.

Here's the earlier version since it was so long ago.

Zombie With Ripped Clothing

Here is where I would post a picture of the latest update of the zombie model. But Blogger isn't having any of it today.

I'll try and edit this post to add the image another day.

Edit: Now it's working.

The rips are on a layer so I can mask them out or add new ones for variation.

Zombie Now With Pants

The poor zombie has gone for long enough with no trousers. Now he has some. And a shirt and a T-shirt to allow for some mixing and matching.

No real detail yet. I'll add pockets and stuff shortly. I also plan to add rips and damage as layers so they can be dialed in as required.

Zombie New Head

Although I liked the original head, I thought he looked too nice for a bad guy. And I needed the character to have an opening mouth and eyes. So I transfered the head I did recently onto the full length body.

Zombie Sketch2

More like the full figure style, but with seperate eyes and an open mouth.

Zombie Sketches1

Some rough zombie sketches. Trying out ideas. These were just sketched out from the Mudbox base body and head.

More to follow when I get the chance.