For my last project, the original idea was to create a god from myth. However, I change to create a monster from old Chinese myth, because we have a fixed mode for god or fairy. The monster is much easy to make more real for viewers, because a monster can looks like anything. The monster I created that was called Qiling in old Chinese myth. It has dragon’s head, tiger’s teeth, lion’s body, fish’s scales, horse’s hoof, and around fire.
As a monster, the most important thing is to give viewers a strong and afraid feeling. I spend lot of time at the monster’s eyes, because eyes are the best contraction for viewers. Furthermore, every scale from the body was fixed by Photoshop, because the high quality scales at body can make the monster more vivid. Those fire that were around the monster’ body, used different color. The main color was red, but all the fire had different tiny changes that from dark to light.
All in all, I do feel my monster is successful, because it makes viewers believe my monster is strong and afraid. Even the viewer don’t know the Qiling in old Chinese myth, I believe my last project can let they know something about it.
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