Action Bones

Innovation Claim: No other game uses models with action figure articulation for the purpose of an emotionally grounded art style (doesn’t draw attention to the fact they’re action figures).

What is it? My SIP is a way of 3d modeling so that models have action figure articulation for the purpose of achieving a unique art style for a video game.

Project Focus: This project would focus less on a practical solution to a problem, as other solutions exist, and more so on a stylistic choice. This stylistic choice would help the player feel more grounded without hyper realistic models.

Why Did I Want to Work on this SIP?: Because games pull from the same inspirations and I want more games to have interesting art styles.

Technical Fields: This project involves the technical fields of Game Art and Animation, and a little bit of Game Design (in how an art style like this would apply to a specific game).

Project Inspiration: This project was inspired by my personal interest in action figures, my personal interest in interesting art styles, and my want to create an interesting art style.
Process:
- The first step of this process was to create a mood board of all of the figures I wanted to pull inspiration from.
- Next, I made a detailed model and added articulated cuts in it
- Afterwards, I made sure to retopologize it to get it game-ready
- Finally, I rigged the model, making sure to add restraints to the model so that it can only move in a way an action figure could.

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Email: s.schenck33@gmail.com