Tentacle

After a lot of negotiating with the team at "Dramatic Panda" I eventually started working on the first tentacle out of the 4 they wanted. I began by using reference pictures of both an octopus and the fictional deity Cthulhu.

                     Cthulhu

 Octopus

 Tentacle Basic Model Side

Tentacle basic model Perspective

With the base model of the Tentacle finished i will be sending these screens to the Team at Dramatic panda to see if any changes are necessary.

Description

For this Project i had to find and communicate with an outside company and discuss the brief in detail. Using connections from college i was able to get in contact with a friend (Robert Miskimmon) who is the lead programmer of an Indie games development company called "Dramatic Panda" This Company currently specializes in 2D side-scrolling games and is working on a game currently titled "Under Development". After a few talks with the Programmer they asked me to model, rig and Texture a Bunny Rabbit. This sounded relatively easy and to be honest i was hoping for something a bit more challenging. Almost the next day however Rob contacted me again telling me of the change in plan. I was now to model an entire 3D Kraken sea monster.

This was clearly a massive leap up from a rabbit, but after some discussing we narrowed it down to 4 tentacles protruding vertically from water and a giant head also semi-submerged. Rob also asked that i give the Kraken a Cthulhu feel to it.

Rob was also kind enough to draw me up a quick concept of how the creature is to look on screen. It could have done with being a tad more detailed but the general message was received.