The Brief

To design and create a maquette of a creature/character for a fantasy film, using the characteristics of a rhino as a starting point. To do this I will research rhino behaviours, characteristics and the environment they live in. Depending on the species of rhino I base my designs on I will create armour, weaponry, clothing and jewellery from the culture of the country of origin. I will create several designs and from one of these designs I will sculpt a 3 foot Marquette that I will then mould and cast. In the film industry a maquette like this would be created as a part of the design process to capture the essence and dynamics of the character, once the final design has been signed off the maquette would be used as reference for sculpting another maquette, but this time in a symmetrical pose from which the final life size creature suite would be sculpted or 3D digitally scanned for the creation of a CGI character.