Character's for design assignment2: monster couch Z brush creation

FRONT

 SIDE

 BACK

 Details

 Bird's eye point of view

At first I've tried to make my monster very dark using purple and blood red.

I've added blood puddle so i could make it even scarier.

I was totally going for..

this i guess. 

ok.. it is a bit scary.

 FRONT

 SIDE

 BACK

 DETAIL

Bird's eye point of view

Then i thought it would be too much because monster house is a kid's animation

well I don't think so but a review says it is so i changed my concept

I've changed blood puddle into a cotton by adding more to it using my brush,

cotton on the couch arm is bursting out.

My concept was an old broken anthropomorphic couch abandoned in a monster house.

Reference image

Old sofa (referenced color and the texture)

Cotton bursting out

broken spring

What I have to do: 

I'm planning to create this couch opening up a mouth.

I'm thinking of fixing the teeth into a broken wood piece

so it is sharp but has the wood texture so it looks more natural as a couch.

the reason i thought this was because in monster house movie 

you can clearly see that the house it self is made out of a material. 

so his teeth is made out of wood,the hands are trees, the eyes are windows.

and the head are made out of roof tiles.

I might just do a brief sketch before i go further just so i know what to develop clearly.

characters for design assignment2: Zbrush anthropomorphic couch creation process

So I've started to build up my couch by using basic shapes.

two rectangles and another big square for a body.

 and then i made a teeth sharper, shaped the arm and put two holes for eyes

i stretched my shape at the back to make it look like if it was dripping or melting.

 Then i added a puddle or something that is coming out from the couch.

Added little more dripping details on the back 

 Then i made a nose for a couch+ i smoothed the arm. I've tried to shape a feature more so it looks more like a face.

Added more little detail drips on the back.

 Then i colored it and contrasted using variable colors.

characters for design assignment2: concept+ zbrush experiment

 character concept: groggy+ melting kind of look.

still thinking if i should make it icy and sharp

and then have fun with colour

or make it slimy+grungy.

or see through could be fun,

so we could see all those springs and cottons in the couch.

 

 

Just a reference from pokemon.

i'm trying to make my couch as dark as possible.

because at the moment it seems a bit too cute for me.

+ My zbrush is doing weird things again from 2 days ago. i wouldn't let me draw or sculpt anything. Well, I'll have to do more work on this at school because i don't know exact problem for this;. 

characters for design assignment2: anthropomorphic furniture design

Monster house, monster furniture design

anthropomorphic couch

 Then i looked at another chair form but i thought couch was more heavier as a subject matter.

 Therefore i drew some silhouette to see how it could express feeling through certain movement.

I'm still thinking if i should design whole bunch of other furniture or go along with this idea.

characters for design assignment2 (monster house)

Monster House

 At first i wanted to make another Monster house beside this one but I wanted to create a character which doesn't exist in the film.

 therefore i started off looking at anthropomorphic furniture

such as furnishes in beauty and the beast

Too cute to be in monster house film

Than the Brave little toaster 

which is also cute to be in this film.

but we could see that the toaster's arm moves around like human.

(ex when it is afraid it hides it's face or swings it around)

If you see a vacuum cleaner in Teletubbie you can see that the character

uses it's hose as a hand.

and then i wanted my anthropomorphic furniture

which has facial expression(but doesn't have specific body parts (eyeballs or nose etc)

Ref. Harry potter talking hat

this kind of facial expression could be good.

and some mystery look would also work on my anthropomorphic furniture design.

Kaitiakitanga Digital illustration project

to Claire&Matt

Video Made by.
Minjoo Bai
Sujeong Kwon


Massey University

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We've printed everything out and handed it as a practical work book thank you :)
rationale is included in the book!