Rook

After completing my Ilium project, I felt my biggest weakness was how generic my designs were, so for my final assignment in character design, I decided to pick a project that would allow me to try to explore designs more and make them more unique. So, I decided to do 6 characters based off of chess pieces, since each piece has a unique set of characteristics that define them. It turned out to be an extremely enjoyable assignment, and I'm pretty happy with the results as well. The basic idea was just to create these 6 characters or "units" of some sort of ancient, yet advanced civilization. I think I still need to work on my poses and make them less static, and I could still exagerate even more. And textures... I need to get better at rendering different textures.

This was the first piece I did on the project, and possibly my favorite overall. It seems to get everything I was trying to capture. I guess maybe I should have made the rook faster in some way, since the rook can move all the way across the board in one move. I'm not sure how I would have done that without losing the rigid feeling of the rook (since he can only move in straight lines). But hey, thats the fun of character design!