So this was a very fun and completely insane project to play a part in... My friends, Mike and Katie AKA TADO were commissioned to design an installation for the APM Mall in Hong Kong for Chinese New Year. As they predominately work in 2D, we've worked together on a couple of projects in the past where I've made 3D versions of their character designs.
TADO original 2D designs
For this, they asked me to work up some 3D turnarounds of their characters so that the factory in China would have a better understanding of how to translate the characters in the real world and everyone could see how things would look before the manufacturing process.
My 3D version of their character
Untextured version for clarity of the forms
Capture of the model in ZBrush
360° turnaround of the final model
The full physical figure, being created in the factory
The full physical figure, being created in the factory
The final physical figure!
TADO original 2D designs
360° turnaround of the final model
The full physical figure, being created in the factory
The full physical figure, being created in the factory
The final installation of all of the giant characters in APM Hong Kong!