My project for course: 3D Character Creation in Blender

My project for course: 3D Character Creation in Blender

Wow - this took a long time but it felt so rewarding seeing the final renders. I Have learned a lot in this class but am aware that I still have a lot to learn about the world of 3D.

I build everything from spheres, cubes and planes. Adding different modifiers and textures to help "selling" what the different things were. I used some free textures from ambientcg.com and polyhaven.com (I think) for the asphalt and the suit the baby seal is wearing.

I wanted to use the particle system so I gave the seal some fur and added a grass plane. For the smoke I used a particle emitter and added a volume shader to it to make it look more like smoke.

For the stickers I used the shrink-wrap modifier. I drew the stickers in Procreate and exported them as pngs. In blender I added the add-on called "import images as planes" which made it easy to make them look like stickers after a few subdivisions.

I didn't want to be tied to my initial sketch so I changed the camera up a little to make it more exciting.
I have attached my sketches and some of the references I got inspired by.

Thanks
Emil K