Fred - Personal Project

I haven't posted in awhile, but I have been working! Close to the end of art school (back in November), I started working as a production assistant at Atomic Fiction. It's a small studio in Emeryville that works on amazing projects! I've met so many talented people there who are not only incredibly smart but also have great personalities.

While I was working as a production assistant, I worked on Fred! Here he is:

Fred is the nickname for my friend Jenny's creature. Here is her concept:

If I haven't pointed out my talented friend's work, here is her blog: http://jennybach.blogspot.com/

During Reel Pro 2, I asked another friend to model him while I was working on my robot. Here is Evan's model of Fred: (Btw, Evan is a great animator and CG generalist.)

Then I started texturing him! At first I thought, MAN! Why is he so ugly! But I realized I needed to sculpt Fred some more to match Jenny's concept. Also, I decided to put a little environment around him and had fun with the leaves. Here's a progression of Fred.

I still need to give him some more time/work to do Jenny's concept justice. It's been months since I touched this project, and after a break it's easy to pick out a million fixes to make!