How to create an orc: a brief instruction

Each game developer must have come across the fact that sometimes I want to “develop” the image invented and drawn in the game, hold it in my hands, consider it not on the screen but in reality, albeit on a scale. This is a special pleasure - to use another sensory feeling - touch, which at the tactile level reveals new feelings for the character and the game, launches mechanisms that allow us, the development team, to make the game more interesting.

On the KDPV, the representative of the orcs is one of the most ancient races in Allods Online . They are creepy, powerful, hardy. They unite into hordes for raids and rarely stop in one place to settle there forever. More often they build temporary dwellings that are not a pity to quit. This is the most anarchic and freedom-loving creatures of the game world "Allods".
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It is not surprising that our artists, while creating these characters, did their best. And, of course, they decided to create real sculptures. For help turned to the guys from Prosto Toys. If you play Allods Online , then you know that our orc is not a huge mutant, but rather a muscular football fan: moderately plump and in his prime. And so the model for creating the figurines was chosen appropriately: a guy in great shape, often in the gym. However, due to his prominent muscles, he was unable to assume the desired impulsive position. Masters took him as a model, but slightly changed the figure. As you can see from the photo - the pose turned out bright, the back of the hero is arched, and the muscles are significantly enlarged.

How to create a figurine orc: from prototype to painting

The model was created on a high-precision 3D printer, and then was manually edited for a long time. The material is a special plastic, it feels soft and pleasant to the touch.



Still, an incredibly convenient thing, a 3D printer. Judging by how quickly they are developing and getting cheaper, they will soon become as familiar a home device as a regular printer today. Then it will be possible, among other things, to print such orcs on your own :) “Then we shall live!”

This is what the raw hero, not yet painted, looks like. Here is the orc build process:



Here is the digital painting of the prototype:



And here - the most that there is a real painting. With masks and glasses:



One of the orc figures was given to us. Alexander Gorbatyuk , art director of the Game Operation Department (GOD), painted the hero with his own hands.













And so he got it: