C. Louis Metrebian

University Projects + Work: Year 3 - 3D Animation and Games Art

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Specialist Pathway Project: 3 Character Designs (Re-submission).

I wanted to revisit my earlier submission as my designs had been rather uninteresting and the final renders had been left unfinished. 

I began by polishing my tank’s (picture 1) final render, just to add some extra detail and fix some of the blurring in the piece.

Picture 2 is a redesign of my earlier support design that wielded a pipe. I decided to use a Japanese incense burner as my starting point for the concept. To stay with Japanese themes and folklore I felt that an incense burner was more identifiable as a Japanese symbol rather than a pipe, then of course the character wears a kimono-inspired dress to further solidify the concept. The character’s most identifiable features are of course the fact that the smoke from the incense can be morphed into different things (such as two muscular arms, in this case).

Picture 3 is a redesign of my assassin character. This character also went through multiple iterations before I came to the decision to base it off of a “Jorogumo” (a Japanese spider yokai/demon, that can shape-shift into a beautiful woman). I took inspiration from traditional Japanese Geisha to emphasise the importance of beauty in this character. I initially approached the character like a traditional assassin, focusing on creating silhouettes that emphasise movement and speed. However I felt like a lot of the characters lacked identity and wanted to focus on a more simple and clear design/colour scheme. 

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Final Major Project: Concepts for fantasy characters.

Here are some of my rough sketches/ideas/silhouettes for characters.

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Final Major Project: Fantasy Characters Renders

These are final renders of some fantasy character concepts. I set this project to help me learn rendering and posing so that I can display a final design.

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Final Major Project: Fantasy Character Explorations

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Final Major Project: Post-Apocalyptic Raiders, Sci-fi Soldiers and Mechs

I wanted to work on concepts that were not similar to either the sci-fi or fantasy settings I had done recently, just to explore the style.

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Final Major Project: Sci-Fi Horror Creature Designs and Explorations

This was an exploration of a sci-fi horror concept, with a focus on body horror.

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Final Major Project: Alien/Sci-Fi characters 

I was creating concepts for aliens that might exist inside of an alien bar, as I was working with a team wanting to make a 3D environement in VR.

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3rd Year FMP: Village Elder Designs + Barber

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3rd Year Final Major Project: Key Frames + Crystal Designs + Barber Shop Environment Art

The first two images show my key-frames for our game. We were aiming for a isometric perspective, similar to Diablo. The environments show the differences between the petrified/non-petrified environments.

Crystal designs to help asset design.

The barber shop concept was an idea to replace an armoury with a barbershop, as the player character would use their hair as a weapon.

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3rd Year Final Major Project - Preliminary Character Concept Designs

This is the first of two major character designs for the protagonist, however it was scrapped in favor of a redesign.

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3rd Year - Final Major Project: Protagonist Character Design

Due to the cold environment  and Celtic themes, I tried to create a character that was still obviously based in the fantasy genre, but looked as though they were grounded in these two aspects.

I did this by incorporating cooler colours such as blue and a washed out brown, and braided their hair, which still pulls focus to the bell that would obviously be used as the main source of combat.

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Year 3 Final Major Project: Death Toll - Boss Designs + Final Concept

I tried to incorporate aspects of the crystals and petrification into the boss + weapon design.

I was originally planning on having the boss and bell imagery blend, but due to the lore of the game, scrapped the idea and went for a more traditional yet interesting fantasy boss chracter.

The Boss is based off of a bird and knight, as its supposed to be a fast fighter. Additionally, the lore behind the boss is that it brings the petrification with him, therefore I wanted to portray the imagery of a migrating/wandering character (bird imagery).

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Year 3 Final Major Project - EGX Rezzed Submission: Death Toll (Poster)

This is the poster I designed and made for our game “Death Toll”.

I wanted to reflect the cold and dark atmosphere of our game. Additionally I wanted to feature the main imagery that is featured, that being the petrifite + crystals as well as bells.

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Year 3 Final Major Project - EGX Rezzed Submission: Death Toll

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1v8grquspLCGHXerSgLs9yF1XTwJMPGT4

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Preliminary Character Designs

Year 3 Final Major Project:  Character Designs to warm up for the FMP

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Game Idea Pitch Project

Illustrations and Concept Art

Our team’s final idea came as the game “Bottle on the Bus”. 

The were multiple different ways the game’s mechanics could be taken, but primarily it always involved the player attempting to get a bottle stuck inside a moving London Bus off of the Bus. 

Waste Creative’s CEO’s who we pitched the idea to, were highly complementary of the game’s uniqueness and simplicity; specifically calling it “Almost genius”.

Personally, I enjoyed creating the characters at the beginning of the project, though they are somewhat outside of my comfort art style and preferred themes, I was proud of the work I produced, (one of the people we pitched to were also very complimentary of this).

The only problem Waste Creative had with the game was that an overall art style had not been chosen/created for the game, but this can be done at a later date, and was only a minor problem for the pitch.

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Game Idea Pitch Project

Bottle on the Bus: Character Concept Art

I designed a number of characters who could fit into the game’s environment. 

These were all inspired by the diverse population of London city.