Fantasy Extension of Water Margin

Showreel

Hello everyone, I am very pleased to present my latest work here as part of my final year project at UAL. This work is inspired by one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, "Water Margin," and extends into a fantasy storyline based on the original story.

All aspects of character design, scene design, character modeling, and environment setup were created by myself. 

Song jiang Character

Character showcase

I first used Blender for modeling, retopology, UV unwrapping, and initial sculpting, then moved on to creating high poly models in ZBrush, and developed materials using Substance Painter. Finally, I rendered and set up the environment using Unreal Engine 5. The initial basic characters and rigging were created using Character Creator 4, The animations also come from CC4.

Character concept

environment

Process

Axe

Detailed production process

The short film with sound will be uploaded later.

3D Self-Portrait

The hair was created using particle hair systems, the initial clothing was made using Clo3D, high-poly modeling was done in ZBrush, and all other components were developed using Blender.

Detailed production process

Realistic Hamster Model

This is a hamster model created for a game during my second year, featuring particle hair, all made using Blender.

FORD

In this project, I handled the character design, 3D modeling, rigging the skeleton, and manually keyframing the animations myself.
This project is using Overwatch as a worldview to make the characters in i.

Background story: "This robot was created by the Internet Celebrity Company after the war and has become an internet celebrity with hundreds of millions of fans. His slogan is to save

the world, and he has a supercar-like appearance with attention-grabbing colors, which has captured the attention of many young people. There are rumors that the human government is involved in the hype, possibly as a means to divert attention from the tension between humans and omnics.

Ford lives a false life and possesses immense wealth. However, deep down, there may be a good side to him."

clay cat

Making characters for party games