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Nook N Go – Animal Crossing

Turntable render

For this project, I wanted to experiment with different types of modelling approaches while still adhering to the visual style and composition of the concept art. I experimented with subdivision modelling, box modelling, and boolean. I also wanted to try out modelling characters, as opposed to sculpting them (which is the method I usually adopt). I made sure to have a reasonable polycount to make the scenes optimized for games while keeping the silhouette in tandem with the concept art.

I eventually baked out all the details to the base colour map to also add to the optimization of the scene. I had fun adding details and damages to the high poly sculpts. I then used retopology and baking to bring the assets to medium-poly. 

All assets were modelled and textured by me

Concept art

Concept Art

3D Render

Highpoly sculpts (later baked down for handpainting)

L-R Highpoly sculpts (later baked down for handpainting)

L-R Topology, UV layout and basecolor

The process step of “Reverse engineering” the concept art to determine the proportions of assets. This was an essential step as the concept art is in 3 point perspective (i.e. skewed) and asset proportions relative to one another are not as they appear.