So its finally done! I don't know what went wrong with the render but I was changing settings for (no joke) about 5 hours and I could not get it to work properly. And here is a comparison of the final character with my drawing. ...
I'm not very experienced with texturing so these are going to be pretty basic. I put my basic model into mudbox and added any alterations I wanted by sculpting before texturing in the paint layer. They turned out ok I think though I would have liked a few more days to experiment a bit more with them. ...
Now that my character is all modelled I have started rigging. Its a pretty basic rig to be honest but it does what it needs to do for this project. While doing the rig I have found a couple of areas on the model I would change or do differently if I were to do the project again so its been a good...
Yay the modelling is finished! I am pretty happy with how she turned out I think. I wish I had had more time to look into how to make hair or to experiment with ncloth but thats maybe something I can try over the Christmas break. There are a few areas, around the wrists for example, where my topology could be a lot...
In our final tutorial of 2015 (that went by so quick!) we learned how to render out our model and composite it into a scene. We used image based lighting which I had never used before, I have seen the like mirror ball things you use for it but no one had ever explained how the lights from there are applied in 3D...
In part 2 of our rigging tutorial we finished our IK/FK switch (which I found very difficult, I could not get my head around the connection editor for some reason), created finger controls, created a few blendshapes and painted skin weights on our model. ...
So first things first I restarted the head. I really wasn't happy with how the first attempt was progressing. Unfortunately with the second attempt I kept forgetting to screenshot so I only have a few progress shots. I also finished the hand (though I may go back and tweak the thumb slightly) And I have started putting it all together Still to do:...
I finished my research poster =) I am quite happy with how it turned out. The font is a little big and I think if I were to do another one, now that I am a bit more comfortable with InDesign I would try and do something a bit more creative with the timeline or to break up the sections. ...
