Good Fortune Dragon

Here at work, day job work that is, I have been asked to design and develop a Dragon that will end up being a little 3D character that will swoop around and about one of our puzzle games that we have developed called Fortune Symbols.


A screenshot of Fortune Symbols for those of you who have forgotten what it looks like.

Initially our thoughts were to do a traditional Chinese Lung dragon since the game has a Chinese theme and feel to it, but this was eventually scrapped. The primary reason for that was that we needed the dragon to fly about, and in my research I have found that most Chinese Lungs don't have wings and if they do they are tiny. The second requirement is that we needed the guy to look very cute and friendly and that's not the easiest thing to do without having Disney on your butt for copying Mushu from Mulan.


A reference sketch that I had done for a Chinese Lung, kinda mean looking though.

In the end what we ended up with is a more western (ie. European) looking dragon that suits our needs and can be used within the game.



And here is the current work that I have done modeling the little guy in 3D. I have done about 6 hours of work on him now and have a couple of hours of refinement left before I need to move onto UVW maps and texturing. At which point you can expect to see another update.