This is my finished character model of my original character 'Sidney Trench' from my Second Year Character Art project.
We were tasked with creating a 3D character based on our artwork or another artist's art.
I chose to use my original character Sidney Trench, a contract thief and 'mer-son'/fish person from a heist story I work on in my spare time. I created a basic turnaround to help me translate the 2D design into 3D space, narrowing down the details of her design more and getting different angles of her drawn for reference. I am still very happy with my sculpt and my translation of her concept art especially in the clothing. In future, if I wanted to return to her I would want to be more cautious about staying on model. I found by the end of the project that her hair in particular, gave her what could generously be referred to as a 'five head'. With this model I took the time to focus on fish elements, trying to emphasis her theming as a 'mer-son' by incorporating details to connect to this. Immediately you may be drawn to her arm fins, the blue colour of her skin, the glossy wet hair and the gills on her neck, however I incorporated other details such as her jacket zip which I chose to translate as a fish hook or her belt buckle which has a cartoonish fish skeleton adorning it.