Character creation study
Personal project, 2025
This project had its start from a challenge. While drawing value studies of some animals I had the idea of challenging myself by creating a story around the animals. I thought of ways they could fit together and then chose one of them to bring alive in 3D. The aim was to improve my character creation skills and to become more familiar with Blender.
I came up with the idea of an arrogant but big hearted Tiger from Korkeasaari zoo, located in Helsinki, wakes up one day at an unfamiliar place, much colder than the one he is used to. Turns out he has been transferred to a zoo much further north, leaving all his friends and family behind, something he is not happy with. He decides to escape and make his way back down to his home, no matter how difficult the journey may be. On the way he decides to rest in a barn at a rural farm. This is where he meets the chill punk rocker goat, the silent but smart hawk and the cheeky Corgi. Together the trio decided to go on an adventure and leave their small farm to help the Tiger find his way back to the big city.
The Tiger
I chose to further explore the tigers design as I though it would be the best one to create a final render of.
Retopology, base, simple rig and textures all created in Blender
I drew a concept piece of what I had in mind for my render. Using this as a guide I set up my scene
final render