[ENDED] BC2-1803 – March 2018 Class Homepage – Creating Stylized Characters with Blender
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Homework submission Week 2
Where is that damn thing again? It must be here somewhere… I swear if Peterson was through my things again, I’ll paint her stupid rocks purple. She just can’t keep her nose out of— Oh, here it is. Now, what did the notes say… Hmm, yes. Swish and wave! … Oops! Eh, I’m sure she’s not gonna miss that. No, maybe it’s more in the wrist, like— Oh no, not on the chandelier! Now I’ll have to call Mr. Hedgewort and he’s still angry about last week. “They are priceless! Contest winning material!” Rubbish. Carrot is a carrot, if you ask me. Good for salad, but not to be fussed about like a… like a… vegetable! He really is a ridiculous chap, that one. And what would he have me do? Keep poor Fluffy in that stinky hat all day? He doesn’t like it in there. It gives him… indigestion. Ugh. I can still hear that horrible woman’s laugh when I took my hat off last time. “Oh look, Morris is planting his own garden now. With that amount of fertilizer you are no match for him, Peter!” Would that she’d fallen off that chair. But tomorrow, oh yes. Tomorrow I’ll show them. Peterson, Kelly, even that wombat-loving Thompson fellow. They will all feel sorry for mocking me. And if the “Deck Predictor” fails to amaze them, I still have one last trick up my sleeve…
He was really fun to sculpt. In the end I split him into many pieces, as it made things a lot easier. So there is a hat, head, eyes, cape with a clasp, lab coat, shirt with a tie, pants, socks and slippers. For the cape I used cloth simulation, I hope that’s alright. I had to adjust it slightly with proportional editing, but I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. For the rest I used a combination of dyntopo and multires (on shirt, pants and slippers). I also found out that I rather enjoy sculpting hands, but the nails always end up on the rubbish side of things. Oh well. Onto the retopology.
Homework submission week 2
Here’s my character sculpt and the story. I apologize if there are mistakes in the text, writing is not my strength and it’s even more difficult for me in English.
Named as Cuthbert, he is a chimney sweeper apprentice. Usually called as “Bert”, “Hubert” or “Hugh” by his Master Sweep Floyd Griffiths. Sometimes the name turns in to form of just “Lad” or “Boy”. It is not rare to hear the coughs roughed voice through the chimney pipe yelling “Go on, hurry, Cuthbert! Why’d you were given so long name anyways? Enough to think through with your small brain, laddy? C’mon Hugh. You think we got all day to sweep only this one chimney? Do you want something else for supper than just water? Better keep sweeping and sweep fast, or you’ll stay like the little bastard you are for the rest of your short life.” and so on. Even so the master sweep is tough slave driver, Cuthbert is not afraid of the man and secretly calls him with names when he’s not hearing or around.
The young chimney sweeper kid Cuthbert, well not so young anymore as being the age of twelve, is very brave boy. He doesn’t mind the crap he has to take every day. After orphaned at the age of eight and living in the streets barely a month, Floyd found him and took the boy along. It is usual that the Master Sweeps hire homeless kids, even after The Chimney Sweepers Act in 1875 changed the job description of apprentices. Using the climbing boys was not only illegal in England, but also followed by the authorities. So after not being forced to climp trough the pipe, Cuthbert carries tools around and sweeps chimneys with the long sweeping tool. He keeps thinking positively: imagines that one day he will have a life of his own, a life with a real job. A job that maybe isn’t even sweeping the chimneys. Some times, or maybe too often we could say, when standing on the rooftop, he stops to stare in to horizon and falls daydreaming of something better. He is certain that with hard work and right amount of willpower, a better life will be achievable. Many times in situations like that if he gets caught of slacking, the Master Sweep gives some beating and makes him work even harder. Life is cruel but Cuthbert deals with it. He sleeps on the floor of his masters apartment, and at the next morning once again he runs trough the London streets and loyally sells their work by yelling “Chimney sweeps! For cheap!”
Almost done here but I’ve a problem.
I sculpted the right arm and happy enough with it. I found it very hard to sculpt an accurate copy for the left one. I also does not have the symmetry to symmertize. Anyone knows how could I copy the mesh and merge it? So I tried to select a hand in edit mode and then picked “Add duplicate”, mirror the mesh then. Somehow the new mesh appears in different color and doesn’t merge with the main one. I tried to manipulate the edges and vertices, combine and add faces, but had no luck. The mesh still does not behave as one.
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