Concept Art Portfolio

This was more of a dare for myself than anything, the idea that it might be possible (with certain plugins) to build something like Alita: Battle Angel or The Major in Sketchup. I wanted this project to push the limits of my knowledge/practice in Sketchup up to that point, and if there was something halfway cool at the end of it all the better. A Sketchfab model was used as a guide for the silhouette, but everything beneath the skin was on me. For the most part, this was succesful! The lower jaw and hips were some of the only parts I ended up not being able to make. My biggest takeaway?...never try to build a person in Sketchup.

Pretty generic prompt, building a mech. For myself, I was trying to make something that seemed daunting but nimble and outside of a traditional, bulky, mecha look. Something with a solid core but with distinctly lanky appendages to break up the silhouette. What ended up being made I ultimately dubbed the "Ohrangutank."  

A character design assignment we had from Syn Studio. The brief was to render out, layer by layer, a character with a dual identity who moonlights in some way criminally. I give you Jerome Mason, a stand-up bass musician by day, and freelance mafia enforcer by night.

This was another instance where I was trying to push Sketchups limits, basing a design from an organic structure and using the programs limitations to help it look more machined. Using bat wings as opposed to a bird's seemed like a more original design approach too, since their bone structure is comparable to our own hands. There was no real prompt beyond that as it was a personal project as well.