Making of The Cursed Pirateby Rohan Oka, India/Canada Web: www.rohanoka.com



The cursed pirate was a project that required a lot of back and forth in ideas and modeling. It started off with a doodle / Thumbnail sketch ( lots of em ) on paper to the final render in Maya. Sometimes I got lost in the look of the character but my friends and teachers were very helpful in giving me feedback, that really kept me focused and on track as to how the final look would be. A lot of time and effort was spent mainly in the idea and concept creation. The cursed Pirate is a part of a scene ( Death of a Spell ) where two characters are present but for the purpose of this “Making of”, I'll be focusing mainly on the Sea Creature.


First I started to do a lot of scribbles, thumb nailing really helped me in seeing shapes and forms on paper. I sometimes grabbed ideas from even wood patterns and patterns on natural rocks (basically let my mind wander), it was abstract to begin with but as I started penning it down it all came through. I had my first eureka moment and immediately go on to the modeling stage. This was my first sketch that came through it all. Scanned it and started doing some tweaks in Photoshop.

Now I had a rough idea in my mind but nothing was concrete, nevertheless I jumped on to doing some rough base mesh in Maya, just to get a feel of how it would look in 3d.



As I kept thumb nailing more, just realized that it wasn't exactly what I was going for as it struck me that it looked more cartoony rather than something that would be more believable. So grew another Sketch.



And then finally i stuck on to this: