Aplicación de técnicas de modelado y animación tridimensional en Blender para el desarrollo optimizado de personajes y entornos interactivos en tiempo real.

Abstract

Artificial intelligence applied to 3D modeling has transformed workflows in digital content development, enabling the automatic generation of three-dimensional meshes and accelerating the stages of digital sculpting; however, these geometries often present topology issues that make indispensable human intervention through retopology processes, where the author applies artistic knowledge to provide expressiveness and realism to characters and objects, demonstrating how the combination of artificial intelligence and human work can accelerate 3D content development without compromising its final quality. This project describes the modeling and retopology of playable and non-playable characters, as well as the creation of assets for the video game “Ashes of Faith”, using Blender under a low-poly artistic style. For the characters, meshes generated with the “Tencent Hunyuan 3D” tool was used as the starting point, with retopology applied to reduce and organize polygon density while maintaining their visual appearance, while the assets were modeled from scratch to the same standard. In addition, work was carried out on UV mapping, materials, textures, rigging, and animation for their proper integration into Unity; all activities were planned under the Scrum Agile methodology, allowing the work to be organized into sprints and reducing development time. As a result, tests were conducted in Unity using the Profiler to measure the impact of the assets on rendering, confirming that artificial intelligence acts as an initial accelerator, while the expressiveness and performance of the models are the product of technically validated human judgment.