Monday, October 4, 2010

ART 450: Project Proposal

1. Working Title.

The Ugly, the Grotesque, and the
Nasty.

2. One-sentence description.

The Ugly, the Grotesque, and the Nasty will be a collaborative project focusing on the pre-production and development of three 3-D character models.

3. One-paragraph description.

The Ugly, the Grotesque, and the Nasty will be a collaborative project focusing on the pre-production and development of three 3-D character models. Each character will separately correspond with the terms ugly, grotesque, or nasty. Because each of these terms “takes it to the next level” in terms of ugliness, so will our designs and concepts for each character.

4.
One-page description.

The Ugly, the Grotesque, and the Nasty will be a collaborative project focusing on the pre-production and development of three 3-D character models. Each character will separately correspond with the terms ugly, grotesque, or nasty. Because each of these terms “takes it to the next level” in terms of ugliness, so will our designs and concepts for each character.

This project becomes collaborative through predetermined meetings and mini-critiques in order to reflect on each other’s work and how the other artist approaches these three characters. We will also have each other to further expand our resources and knowledge of our programs of choice.

Our goal will be to have clean and fully completed concept drawings that will be ready to model in a 3-D program. In addition to this, it would be nice to actually start modeling at least one or more of these characters.

5. The product of the project.

Both artists will have at least three
fully completed concept drawings that will be ready to model in a 3-D program. With a great amount of luck and skill, both artists will also have started at least one 3-D model.

6.
Visual/written research.
World of Warcraft:


Aion Online:

Miscellaneous Artists:

Sweet Grotesque Victor by WadeFurlong
7. Treatment visuals.
Previous drawings of mine that reflect the beginning stages of the style/direction I hope to go in during the course of this project:

8. Technical/research issues that will be addressed.

During the course of our project we will be utilizing Maya, Mudbox, and Photoshop to complete our designated goals. Both artists will be doing independent, as well as collaborative, research in order to learn as much as possible about these programs.

9.
Specific timeline.

Oct. 5 - Present Project Proposal
Oct. 7 - Meet and conceptualize characters, rough sketches, and visual research
Oct. 12 - Meet and mini-critique sketches, establish what to produce for the WIP critique, and research Maya/Mudbox tutorials
Oct. 14 - WIP Critique in class, Printed Proposal
Oct. 19 - Meet and continue research of Maya/Mudox, continue concept drawings
Oct. 21 - Meet and mini-critique at least 1 completed character concept
Oct. 26 - Meet and start roughing out 3-D models in Maya/Mudbox
Oct. 28 - WIP Critique
Nov. 1-10 - Checking in and establishing meetings when necessary
Nov. 11 - Meet and mini-critique at least 2 completed character concepts
Nov. 18 - WIP Critique
Nov. 30 -
Meet and mini-critique at least 3 completed character concepts
Until Final, check in and establish meetings when necessary
Dec. 6 - Final Critique

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