'The Medical Trio' began as an idea for a Character Design Challenge featuring Doctors & Nurses. Based on my friend in the US who recently started her medical degree, it features some favourite furry assistants. Coincidentally Sky News released an article titled "Coronavirus: Could a llama hold the key to treating COVID-19" which made it all perfect. It’s great, despite the scrubs and mask, you can still capture so much character through body language, personal items, expression and colour.
Unfortunately, I was very late for the deadline as I started the piece quite late. All was not lost as I finished and gifted to a friend whom this piece is based on!
For this piece, you can see I've utilised Blender, which I've been learning. I like to combine the use of project-based learning, setting a deadline via challenge or gift as a means push myself. I created base models on 3DS Max as I'm very familiar with modelling there and used Blender for every other part; sculpting, shaders, texturing, texture painting, rigging via Rigify, posing, lighting, framing, rendering, etc.