Week 4: Making a new Pillar prop for our scene

Overview

I made a new pillar prop for our Roki scene, one pillar that is ordinary and another pillar which has been broken due to the damage of the wolf character in the cave. I took a few references to get an idea of what I want the pillar to look like and then I drew some concept art. I then started modelling the pillar using the sketches and references and created a pillar which I though suited the Roki art style and was quite logically accurate.

Gathering References

These references were used to get an understanding of how I wanted my pillar to look like when designing it. The wolf would have been chained to these pillar so I wanted to make them to look tall and sturdy so it makes sense why they kept the wolf in the cave for so long. I liked the reference image on the very left the most but I also wanted to incorporate different features from all the images chosen to create a unique pillar.

Concept Art

I drew this concept art of the pillar which I wanted to create for the Roki scene. I drew an ordinary version of the pillar I wanted to model and also a broken version of the same pillar as I want the broken pilar to convey the chaos and destruction of the wolf character. I also drew a sketch of how the wolf would have looked when he was shacked between the pillars but the broken pillar will show that he escaped his chains.

Making the Pillar prop

Pillar Back View

Pillar Front View

I made the pillar prop in Maya and created it using the references gathered and the concept art I sketched and implemented all the ideas to create the prop. I think that it looks quite good and suits the Roki style well. I like the attention to detail but I would like to go back to the project next week and improve small details such as the scratching of the pillar and conditioning of the prop.

Broken Pillar Top view

Broken Pillar Angled View

I also created a broken version of the same pillar as I could imagine that the wolf character within the cave broke out from these shackles on the pillars and perhaps broke one of them completely. I want to add more details of how damaged the broken pillar is next week however I like how the smaller piece of the pillar look like it got broken from the broken ends of the pillar column.

Hendrick between pillar props

This a view of how the pillars would look in the scene beside a Roki character. They have been scaled appropriately to the height I would like them to be and I think they would look very interesting in the cave scene we are creating, adding layer of destruction to the wolf's nature.