Heres a few pictures of the finished Gondola model.  Moving on to modeling the character now.

I’ve been building this Gondola over the past week.   Even though it’s not an actual part of the character, I think it’ll help the overall design if the character has a ’set-piece’ for him to stand on and interact with.  A few more details left to put in here and there, and then I’m moving on to modeling the actual character next.

I’m working on a project I’ve titled “The Venetian Gondolier”.  I was inspired to model a character based on some of the things I saw during my time backpacking Europe this summer.  Seeing the Gondoliers in Venice made a lasting impression on me, so I’m going to try to express that through this model.

I’m going for a highly sylized character look on this one – really exaggerated proportions – small head, short torso, huge arms, long legs, etc.  Think Sylvain Chomet’s ‘Triplets of Belleville’.