Stick and Stoves: Modelling, Texturing

Here is Chris's original model for use in Production. Unfortunately some aspects weren't quite right compared to the concept and the typology wasn't suitable for production. So I remodelled It to suit my vision for the film. Here is the Updated version of the girl mesh along with the devil Mesh I modelled earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xquNAAdD3nQ
In the meantime Abdul has been researching rigging and modelling aspects to the environment.

Sticks and Stoves:Concept art: Devil

  For the devil design I wanted to create a character that was both menacing and clumsy. My mind was constantly draw to the Vampire Nosferatu and I thought that a design similar to him would be relevent to the German expressionist style of the film. Here are some quick Thumbnails for the character

Here is the final rendered version of the character I produced to give the team an idea of colour and atmosphere. While I was producing concepts, Chris started work on the girl model based on my concept design, whilst abdul researched particle simulations for use in fire.

Sticks and Stoves: Concept Art: Environment.

Here is an environment concept that I did for reference. I wanted a twisted and distorted aesthetic to it in order to provide a contrast to the girls innocent simplistic look.

Sticks and Stoves:Concept art: Girl

Here are some early sketches of the girl from our film. Chris and I both worked on these designs 

Here is the concept art I created for the girl . It was based on an early sketch by Chris which I adapted to sketch no.5 seen above. I took his idea then rendered it in a style that I thought suited the tone for our film.

Short FIlm:Sticks and Stoves: Previs

Before production we had gathered our Pre prodcution documents from last semester in hope of producing a film based on our ideas. After various adaptions of the source material we came up with the idea for "Sticks and Stoves" working title. This idea is vastly different from the work in our pre-production work so it meant that I had to re-concept the entire film from again.

Synopsis: A whimsical  little girl stumbles across a ouija board hidden in the attic. Upon interacting with it she incidiently summons the devil, however when the ouija board is in the wrong hands it's power can be turned against anybody, even the devil.

Firstly, we filmed a maquette for use as reference in the previs. I directed the footage because my knowledge of composition was most suited to the task. My team members acted in the footage, and then chris did a great job at editing it.

The following weekend I modelled a proxy mesh for the devil, Abdul modelled the environement and chris modelled the girl. Abdul then made a basic rig for the characters and chris animated and edited the previs footage. In the meantime I was producing conept art for the characters and the environment.