The Gardener

Watch your fingers! Some of these plants can bite! The Gardener is a home-grown green thumb who enjoys spending most of his time outdoors looking after plants or looking out for new species.

When starting this project I knew I wanted to design my own character as I have really enjoyed that in previous projects. I began with the idea of basing my character on a role/occupation with a casual feel to it so that it felt like the model’s hobby rather than the character’s job; I cycled through a few ideas before deciding on a Gardener/Botanist. I wanted to do a stylised model because I think this is where my skills best lie; I’ve also been trying to develop my own distinct style and sculpting methods so this model was a great opportunity to explore and refine this style.

Overall I really enjoyed this project! As always I’ve learnt a lot I just wish I had started it a little earlier, but given the time limit I think my model is at a presentable level. Mostly I have struggled with the technical side of modelling, specifically with getting the retopo to look even/smooth and getting the UV’s to be efficient. I really enjoyed working from my own concept and being able to make my own changes to the design as I go along mostly in the texturing.

I’ll definitely be carrying on with this project to tidy it up. I’d like to clean up parts of the retopology, Re-do the textures and perhaps add some extra features to the model.