I am the co-founder of GeDi, Gender Diversity in Games! We started this community with the idea of helping people. We all want to find a job in an industry that cares about gender diversity. We are mostly online based and have a discord server that grows a little every day!
In this server we share useful resources, available job positions and it's a place where people can show what they do. But not everything is about work!
It is a place to connect with others and have some fun together. So we created montly challenges!
Every month, we drop five new challenges for artists, programmers, writers and sound designers :D
And of course I had to take part on our first ever challenge! 3D artists had to come up with a character or prop, based on some type of mushrooms.
So I went down the rabbit hole of references and sketched a few little people:
A very fancy lady, a scientist and a peaky blinder mushroom came to life. I was looking for, well of course, a challenge.. so fancy lady won the prize and got chosen for the task. I've been meaning to explore working with fuzzy materials, those you see all over instagram and look VERY soft. I went into Maya and created a base body and then moved to Blender, where I spent an evening learning about hair particles and rendering images.
It was a very small project but a great way of learning new little things!
model based on Panus fasciatus:
Did I do this blog thing correclty? :)
Hope to share other challenges here soon.
M