While my king character is progressing through sculpting stages, I decided on take a whole new challenge, a big one this time. I finally started to participate on a competition at the Poly count community forum. Intimidating!!
The brief for the contest consist in design and model a character, then take it onto Mixamo auto-rig software and use a preset animation.
The Brief:
In the early 19th century a mysterious book, the Voynich Manuscript,
made its world debut. Written in an unknown language the secrets within
are still debated to this day. Every generation has had its adventurers
take hints from the Manuscript’s broken ciphers and cryptic images. From
the high mountains of the Himalayas, to the lost jungles of the Amazon,
from cities of gold, to buried underworlds, those brave enough to call
themselves adventurers must be ready for the challenges the book alludes
to. Help us discover the great adventures of the past century and the
world’s most mysterious book.
YOUR MISSION:
Starting from the beginning of the 19th century up to modern day, create
an adventurer to seek out the treasure of the Voynich Manuscript. Will
it be a 19th century scholar from England, or perhaps a German code
breaker from World War One? A Chinese medicine man or a hired thug for
the Railroad barons of the expanding United States? Will it be a modern
day billionaire, searching for thrills, or the descendant of Voynich
himself? Use the greatest adventure stories you can think of as your
inspiration and create your ideal hero!
Source: Polycount Forum
Being comedic on my character designs, I decided to add a twist my version of the adventurer and I came up with this.
Character: Horace Bennett
Age 59
Setting: 19th Century, London England.
"Horace Bennett , an Englishman enlighten by the discipline of the
plants, is a renowned name in the botanical world, primarily due to his
discoveries of new species of plants.
Being very intellectual, when he heard of the the “Voynich Manuscript“,
he automatically knew it hid information about his beloved plants,
maybe a healing plant, maybe a poisonous one or maybe a very rare
species.
After many sleepless nights attempting to decipher the manuscript as he
expected, it provided him with information about a very rare species of
plant only to be found at the very center of the amazon Jungle, South
America.
Being a botanist and not an adventurer, he thought to hire a
expedition, however as the thought was formed it was immediately discarded,
after realising the lack of coin on his pockets, all spent on whiskey
which served as a company horrendous nights being puzzled by the
manuscript.
Now his only choice was to grab his botanical kit, disembark in Brazil
and venture alone to the heart of the dangerous Amazon Jungle in search
of this rare species of plants, which could make him some serious gold."
here is where it all starts.
