Digital Production Arts
DPA 8070 3D Modeling and Animation with Jim Sidletsky
By: Benjamin B. Warner
Project 1: Model a Real World Object - King Kittan figure
Date: September 23rd, 2020
Objective:
Identify a basic object such as a car, animal, or figure to model.
Solution:
I chose to model a small figure of King Kittan from the anime show Gurren Lagann!
My primary method was to focus on roughly fitting primitives to the front and side views of the object with basic manipulations. A transparent mode was used to ensure a good fit. I also focused on only modeling one side of the model, creating a central line to mirror it about to create perfect symmetry.
For enhanced realism, I applied a Blinn material and sampled the colors directly from the images. Here, you can also see the approximate postions of the image planes that were used.
Careful attention was given to ensuring that no “N-gons” were used and that triangles were minimized. For hard lines and to reduce model complexity, the fewest lines possible were used.
