GamesDev: Final Project

For my final project I decided to do something relevant to a tortoise. My strengths were art related projects so making a level was not what I intended to do. I firstly started off design work for my turtle. I have already drawn the design work for my turtle on paper

I started to gather Ideas of my character of what I wanted it to look like.
This moodboard basically explains that I wanted a destructive turtle and all these references show that.

I then drawn rough sketches of ideas of what I wanted my tortoise to look like. There were some representations but I came to a conclusion to choose the one that had look likes blastoise.

Here I drawn body parts of the tortoise to look into closer detail of the tortoise.

Finally I drawn my final sketch of my tortoise character and drawn several weapons of what my tortoise could have.

I will show you the steps to making my clay model turtle.

I started by using my orthographic drawing as a guideline for my tortoise. To start off my tortoise model, I used strong wire to make sure that the tortoise had a skeleton so the clay could hold together. I then wrapped heaps of foil around certain areas of where the tortoise had a lot of mass. For instance I the shell and the head had more mass than the neck, therefore foil was needed.

You can see on the legs of the tortoise that I twisted the ends of the wire to strengthen its hold.

I then wrapped foil around the legs the give the legs some meat. This was all that was needed for the structure process.

Then it was time to plaster the clay onto the model. I started off by covering the whole model in epoxy clay. After that I used one of the sculpture tools to create incisions into the tortoise's shell.

after I layered the whole shell, I put another layer of clay separately on top of the tortoises shell to create the curvature of the shell of where it sticks out.

here are 2 close up shots of the shell's detail. Right now I'm carving into the shell's outer layer to get features that are on a tortoise's shell.

So far I like the way the way I've formed the underbelly and the top of the shell.

In the image below, I looked at my reference image and noticed that there is a lot of detail within the tortoise's neck. I then start to use a scalpel to make fine lines in the neck to show the wrinkles.

In order to make the cannon on the tortoise's back., I needed something to hold the clay in place like I did with its body. What I did here was that I snapped a pencil in half and moulded the clay around so that the cannon would not slouched. The pencil made it holds its position.

Once I had finished the cannon separately. I added a coin sized stand on top of my tortoise's back and added lining to the shell. I then attached and added a few details to the cannon. here is what it looks like so far.

I've almost completed the whole body, now what I needed was a tail. In order to do that i

What I did to make the tail was that I used a standard wire and covered that in clay. I then shaped it into a tale and this is what it looks like.

All that was left to make was the toes of the tortoise. What I used was just clay and plastered it onto the leg one by one .

These specific tools helped me sculpt my tortoise. The scalpel was a lot easier to create finer detail with as the blade is thin and sharp.

Rather than creating a realistic pattern on a tortoise's shell, I decided to do my own design to make it fun a unique. The shapes I made were quite random but the point was to make my turtle not too serious.

In order to make the face features, I simply used the scalpel to drill holes in the nose and create an incision for the lining of the mouth.

For the mouth I simply made a 2 small balls of clay and poked holes into them. I then used 2 tiny strips of clay to attach above the eye of the tortoise as the top eye area of the tortoise tends to stick out according to the tortoise anatomy.