Broard action plan

Action plan Diceros Character design

Research

• Rhinos, find out about their behaviour, physical characteristics, personalities and find first hand accounts of encounters with Black Rhino

• African culture, tribal rituals, clothing, masks, weapons and armour.

• The land looking at colours and texture of the landscape

• Creature/character design- books, dvds, internet

• General design processes

• Moulding casting

• Companies that specialise in creature design, find out their process (talk to people at imats!)

• Materials: resins, silicones, paints

• Anatomy human and animal

• Sculpting books and DVDs

Designing

• Collate info and use for design of the race, write up a description

• Create a personality for the character

• Pull all info together and start drawing up designs for character

• Design clothing, weapons, armour and other paraphernalia

• Need 10 designs

• From these sculpt a maquette



Sculpting

• Build armature for main sculpture

• Block out the form

• Make adjustments

• Refine form

• Surface detail

• Finish of prep for moulding

• Moulding

• Casting

• Clean up cast, sanding and filling

• Digital scanning

• Colour tests on Zbrush

• Paint final cast