Ghost School Days
3D CHARACTER MODELING
Based on the local Indonesian comics, Ghost School Days also have short animation series available on Mana Banana youtube channel. Creating the 3D model based on comic books is so exciting, since each character represents the unique urban tale of scary Indonesian ghost, but was designed in such a cute way.
OVERVIEW
These Ghost School Days animation series was based on the Indonesian local comics book, published by Muffin Graphics. The comic stories are full with Indonesian local content and culture. The stories are wrote by many Indonesian writer from various age. You could read more its background story from one of the writer's blog, Bambang Irwanto here.
The story is about the friendship and interesting adventure, as well as the daily life of eight little ghosts. Some of the character's IP consisted of the unique urban ghosts that were so well-known locally by Indonesian people, passing down the stories over descendants. There are Darko, Dens, Toshi, Huang, Tole, Karin, Roro, and Mariam, living together in the Javania world.
Image by Dinigaleri via DeviantArt
Challenges.
What was challenging about this project was the fact that all the character's 2D drawings already have a really strong imprints on audience, because the comic books itself were widely sold in many stores. So to translate them into 3D chibi version but still include comic-anime style with big sparkly eyes, small nose, and cute proportion in good topology were pretty thrilling, but really fun and exciting at the same time :D
Client.
Roles.
As a freelance 3D Modeler for this project, I was only responsible for creating the 3D Modeling of these eight ghost characters, and not the animation process afterward. Based on the existing reference from the original comic book, this project page showcased the first initial model that I've worked on. Hence, any other changes on the 3D model which appears on the actual animation series is a possibility.
Tools.
Autodesk 3Ds Max, Vray Chaos Group, Adobe Photoshop
