Final Sculpture

This is the final outcome. As it was my first time sculpting I really enjoyed it and I am pleased with how it turned out. I decided to use fabric for the waist coat as I thought it had more movement to it and I want to communicate energy and youthfulness.

Development Photos

These are the photos of my working process for my final sculpture.

In the oven for 30 minutes

Start Painting

Here I used Clear Nail polish to give the eyes nose and mouth a wet look

Four Expressions

I chose to do these expressions in photoshop to go with my sculpture and to also try more ambitious facial expressions. Here are my final expressions.

Screenshot of working process

Final expressions

Facial expressions

Here are some more referencing before I photoshop my 4 expression drawings.

Colour chart

I have compiled a colour chart from images of hazelnuts and Nutella on which I want to be the colour pallet for the squirrel. The character will have green eye to be cohesive with the hazelnut leaf and the fur will be a range of hazelnut and chocolate tones. The Waistcoat will be red to represent the Nutella Logo and also is a traditional colour for Italian Clothing.

Development on chosen character design

Here I have taken the character design that I decided as my final form and formed into a range of expression with both the face and the body to get an idea of the movement and natural shapes of the squirrel character.

Here I am working on refining my the characters shape and seeing what kind of ears and tail will adjust the values and visual appeal of the character and a Nutella figure.

 I like the look of the generic squirrel tail for the Nutella character as the values of Nutella are youthful and simple so I want to stick to simple characteristic shapes. This also applies for the ears. The bat-like ears loose the cuteness and the first set  ears throw out the proportion of the eyes. So I will stick with my original design.

Here I have referred back to the initial research in my earlier posts of traditional Italian clothing and how to incorporate it into the character without being overpowering. With the hats I was just having a bit of fun in seeing what a hat would look like on my character, I am not using a hat in my final.

The middle and the right costuming is too dominant and takes over the design of the Character. So I will stick with a simple Italian waistcoat. This will also add a new element of movement to the energetic character. Although the hats bring in comedy and fun to the character they look like old ladies and just a bit ridiculous.

Line Drawings

These are some photoshop gesture drawing I did to investigate on different pose to do for my final.

From here I decided to do something that could show off the Hazelnut as a prop because that is the most important part of Nutella as a Brand. I decided to give him a Italian waistcoat because I wanted to incorporate the origins of the company in a non obvious way. also to add a new dimension of depth and move to the character.