The Gecko

During the summer of 2022, I challenged myself to make an organic character in its entirety. I spent 9 weeks on this project. My goal was to make 2 videos. The first one, below, is the turn of my stylized gecko in order to highlight the modeling, sculpting, texturing, lighting and rendering that I did.

After having made the sculpt with Zbrush, a software I discovered during this project, I started texturing, thanks to a software also inedit for me: Marmoset Toolbag.

I enjoyed discovering this new interface and I had a lot of pleasure texturing these characters.

Then, although it is not my favorite field, I tried to rigg and animation in order to make a 30 seconds video where the gecko lives and where a short story is told.

This allowed to see the functionality of the rigg, the efficiency of the skinning, the importance of timing and posing as well as the layout camera work.

To be honest I think the animation would deserve a second pass with better timing. However, I am satisfied with what I produced with the knowledge and skills I had in rigging and animation.