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ABOUT<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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My name is Sandy Marinchak. I am a senior at Freestyle Academy. This fall I will be attending California State University, Long Beach to study art and biology. I have been interested in art my entire life, but my main focuses now are illustration, animation, visual development, and game design. My portfolio features my Zenith project and Narrative project which both showcase my work in these various areas of study. At the bottom of this page I have also included personal pieces that I felt would help to better display my skills in these areas (but that is only if you are curious).<\/p>\n

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ZENITH PROJECT<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For my Zenith project, I set out to create a 3D open world video game. I decided to use the programs Blender and Unity since they are both free and there would be many tutorials all over the internet to help me go about accomplishing my goals. Blender is a program that would allow me to model, rig, and animate characters, as well as create other game meshes. Unity is where I would program and put together all of the pieces of my work into a functioning game. My goal was to create a low poly style of game, this means that the characters and environment are stylized with a low amount of polygon shapes so they have more rigid, clean looking edges. I was inspired by various artist I’ve seen online and the models and games they have created. Also the concept as a whole is just interesting to me and was something I really wanted to learn how to do.<\/p>\n

Process<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The first step of my process in creating this game was to come up with a concept. I took a recent drawing of a character I did and expanded on the world he might live in. The story I came up with is about an Inuit tribe that lives in the arctic. Climate change becomes a threat to them by melting the ice they live on and reducing the amount of seals that they are able to catch. In a panic, they gather up their entire lives and sail south. They eventually come upon a beautiful lush island and decide that it will be their new home. The main character is a young boy in this tribe. He and one of the sled dogs that he is close to go on a journey travelling around their new Island home.<\/p>\n

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My initial designs of the boy and the dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once I had come up with my Idea and created sketches I then began to model the characters in Blender.<\/p>\n

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Modelling the dog in Blender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Modelling the boy in Blender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the character modeled, I applied materials to each polygon, giving it color.<\/p>\n

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Adding materials to the boys model in Blender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the finished result of the boy (I decided to not give him long hair, it looked a bit weird):<\/p>\n

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The final model of the boy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also created all of the dogs that make up the pack though I haven’t yet added these characters to the finished game.<\/p>\n