I created a fan art of Android 18 from Dragon Ball. This is project is a very odd combination.
It started as a contest theme between my friends in February. The theme is "mech character". I chose to created my own version of Android 18, halfway through this the Pwnisher Community Challenge came up and I had to postponed this project.
After the Pwnisher Challenge I came back to this, and then I found out that Akira Toriyama passed away, very weird and sad. Dragon Balls was and still is my favorite manga, easily in the top 3. My mom used to bought 1 manga/week so my brother and I had something to read as a kid and I loved it when it's dragon ball. It was good memory.
I loved Akira Toriyama drawing style, especially how he designed the environments and vehicles. All the machinery and character design feel retro, a bit of military and have a scent of boldness. Also, how he designed the evil characters to become good person in the end, just me feel good about oneself.
I drew the concept in Procreate and created the model of the character in Blender and Maya. The texture was done in Substance Painter, they are very simple since this is a anime style art. Animated in Cascadeur, I wanted to try this tool for a very long time. Finally I rendered this in Blender using a very basic anime/cel shading set up.
A lot of model and texture from this project come from Sketchfab, kudos to those amazing artist.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/android-18-3a26b52682574bbc8f9ed2254fec8b4e
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/monobike-derivative-8e67697cb727446aa073c81464881b35
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/sport-sneakers-3d-model-f0179e9ec3804782a8154047f28b0de8
Mini Breakdown
Final Render
Model Final
Texture Final
Drawing Timelapse
Modeling WIP