Gargoyles in Games!

The main design of a Gargoyle is strong and intimidating, it can be used to give fear towards the players. With that said, their main purpose does vary from it's first design of being a water spout. Some games use them as decoration pieces but also as main boss-battle characters that players would fight against. Here I have found a couple of examples:

The Bell Gargoyles (Darksouls Boss)

The Bell Gargoyles are the first major, mandatory bosses in Dark Souls. A veteran player will have no problem defeating them, but noobs won't fare so well. The first gargoyle attacks with an axe and breathes fire.  They kept the design similar to most gargoyle statues, with the same textures.  What I Like about this is the fact the textures have that old and aged effect on them to make the character more believable.

Galio (League of Legends playable character)

Galio is a playable character in League of Legends, his main design is kept similar to that of a normal gargoyle with the horns and bat like wings, this is good for a starting point, but what to add to it is the question...

Gargoyle statues from the Batman Arkham games

The Batman Arkham games architecture has a Gothic theme to it. So no doubt the game has to feature gargoyles, their main purpose in the game is for the character to perch on top and be the silent-killer, overlooking evil and defeating their rival enemy. Across the world of the Arkham games the designs of these gargoyles never change, but the way of attaining the usefulness is obtained by other means, such as poles, walls and pillars.

Though there are many uses for gargoyles in games, I need to focus on making mine into a statue with a water spout, though how the design will look at the end will be done through more research and iterations, well best get on with it then...

Gargoyles: what are they?

The first step once again was to look for basic research and get an idea of what I had to create.  So I started looking into gargoyles and creating mood boards for them.

The word "Gargoyle" is said to started in the legend of St. Romanius; where he saved his country from a monster called "Gargouille" (A French word meaning throat), which has a similar design to a dragon. The country decided to burn the monster, but the only parts of the body that would not burn where the head and neck. These parts were then placed up on the walls of the church to fend of evil spirits, protecting people inside from harm.

The use of gargoyles are defined as "a waterspout, projecting from an upper part of a building or a roof gutter to throw water clear of walls or foundations." Mostly the water spout's come out the mouth, but some gargoyle design's have the water coming out of different places, (I saw a picture of a spout coming out the butt). There are some Gargoyle designs that don't have water spouts, these are called "Grotesques", an easy mistake to make, unless you know about it.

The different designs of gargoyles where often that of animals and mythical creatures. sometimes they would have a mixture of animals in one gargoyle, these are known as chimera's.  Gargoyles came into Gothic architecture in the early 13th century, and can mosty be found on top of castle's, churches and american skyscrapers.

Links:

http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-art/gargoyles.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/gargoyles.html
http://www.stonecarver.com/teaching.html
http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/08/gargoyles-glorious-gruesome-grotesques.html

http://www.exploring-castles.com/characteristics_of_gothic_architecture.html#.VMQW5vl_tch

Mood boards:

Term 2: Gargoyles

I'm back, and i gotta a new project to get on with. GARGOYLES!! Our project this term is to create a 3D Gargoyle asset.

Submission:

A fully realised digital sculpture and turntable render [.ZPR & .MOV]

A document evidencing iteration [PDF]

Examples of Anatomical Life Drawing [PDF]

Reflective Journal and 500 word evaluation (Digitized Notebook/Sketchbook/Blog)
[PDF, Incl. URL].

My first 3D project, so far working out the software hasn't been too difficult, and I have 6 weeks to something epic, so time to get to work.