3D Character Modeling Summative - Media Design School
My character, Major Io Hawaiki, is a cultural clash of British and Maori influences deriving from my own ancestral pedigree as a child of a European father and a Maori mother.
I wanted to blend the two cultures into one personified character set in a controversial time period in New Zealand history.
A kupapa is a traitor who sold out his own people to appease another’s; Io, my character, is a former chieftain who joined the European colonization effort
A half-caste wearing both Commonwealth and Polynesian attires, Io is a new breed of New Zealander.
My goal WAS to culturally appropriate my cultures.
///Failures\\ Necklace and Earring were supposed to be shiny Greenstone Poorly UV Unwrapped made the character scruffy. A Huia chieftain feather was to be in his hat but transparency issues ruined that idea. Polycount did not allow me to give my character a traditional cloak.
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