Descend - Concepts, 3D modeling, Rigging, and Animations
A compilation of the work I did on Descend, from the time that it was a demo reel project for graduation to launching it on Kickstarter.
The work I did was focused on rigging characters and creatures, editing motion capture data for animations and creating new animations to cover what we didn't have covered by motion capture, and other extra tasks when needed. While it was a demo reel project I contributed to designing and modeling the Player Character Faye and her mount Chia; The revisions of Faye's character design and modelling would be taken over by Sanjana Bhave: (https://www.artstation.com/sanjana_b).
While the Kickstarter campaign was unsuccessful the Team moved on to get work experience in the industry some of us still work on it in our free time and do plan on one day finishing this project.
Information for Descend can be found at:
https://www.twinspellstudio.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWFQcj9X4ReLTZih6Edx7Jg
https://www.instagram.com/twinspell_studio/
Others who worked on the project:
https://www.artstation.com/sanjana_b
https://thelosopher.artstation.com/
https://shashart.artstation.com/
https://stefanpbloedorn.artstation.com/
Turn around of Chia rendered in Maya.
The idle animation is an edited version of animation given to me by an instructor from school and the run animation was hand done over 3 days.
Chia colour variations and size comparison to Faye
Turnaround Sketch of Chia
Chia's Control Rig
1st pass Concept for Faye used in graduate demo reel version of Descend.
Faye version 1 Low Poly.
Embarrassed to admit I've lost her final textures and model for this first version of her.
A clip from the trailer made for our graduation trailer of Descend using the original design for Faye recorded in UE4. I spent about 3 days doing the animations for both Chia and Faye.
Final Character model with idle
full character breakdown version at: https://www.artstation.com/sanjana_b
As Faye's animations were mostly edited motion capture data so I only used the automatically generated control rig provided in Maya.
Rig and Animated Turnaround of the small golem.
concept, modeled and textured by: https://thelosopher.artstation.com/
Larger Utility Golem Rig and Activation Animation
Modeled by https://thelosopher.artstation.com/
Descend Kickstarter Trailer
Tier reward icons for discord and Kickstarter
Unused small rock golem emojis that would have been for discord.