Introduction Page: Mythical Creatures

For my next project, I am going to make a series of mythical creatures. I have yet to decide whether I am simply making various stills or a full length animation; I might even make short introductory animations for each of the creatures. The idea started in digital modeling, when I curve modeled a phoenix. I’ve known since then that I wanted to make something with an entire model, but I wasn’t sure exactly what I would do. I have yet to decide how many and which mythical creatures I want to make, but I do know that I will make, at the very least, one creature for each type of living animal: a creature that flies (the phoenix), a creature that walks on land, and a creature that lives in the water (perhaps a hippocampus). For the land dwelling creature, I was thinking of a unicorn, but that’s entirely too similar to a hippocampus, so I might make a wolf but add a supernatural edge to it, as many mythologies seem to contain wolves in one way or another.


Phoenix


Hippocampus


Related image
Wolf

As for how I’m making and presenting the creatures, of course, I’m modeling them. If I decide to go with stills, I’ll render them in cycles, otherwise I’ll steer clear of it. I want to incorporate particle systems into each piece to emphasize their mysterious and mystic origins. I might include ember like particles with the phoenix, blue particles with the hippocampus, and shadow-like tendrils with the wolf (I might opt for a more Norse-mythology themed interpretation, where wolves can represent evil). Of course, I’m going to do further research on each of the mythologies that I am drawing from for this project to be as accurate and respectful as possible. So far, I’ve started modeling a phoenix, and it is going fairly well:







This past week:
Monday 10/1: Rigged and made flying action for the curve modeled phoenix (it turned out okay, but it was a bit flat)
Tuesday 10/2: Continued on the curve model, made a 10 second animation, discarded the idea
Wednesday 10/3: Looked at reference pics for the phoenix, started modeling
Thursday 10/4: Continued modeling phoenix
Friday 10/5: No School

Next Week: Continue modeling phoenix, fully form the mythical creatures idea, and start modeling the other creatures.


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