Master's Project - 3D Development and Rigging

I finished a base mesh of my model and it sits at around 1600 polygons.

From here I extruded clothes and hair before adding in some grey shades through Hypershade as well as making the hair pink but I'm not sure if that's going to stay.

With hair, clothes, eyes and the 'device' in my character's ear, I have around 2000 polygons. I want to run these models past my lecturers to see what they think and if the character looks 'low poly' or just like I have bothered smoothing out the character.

With a model finished, I tried messing about with the Quick Rig tool in Maya which was actually super easy to use and gave me a pretty good base that I could build on.

There are some issues with the rig, namely under the shoulders and the hands that need to be tweaked in the future but it's a start.

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Cure - Advanced Skeleton 5

I spent a fair chunk of the day yesterday playing around with Advanced Skeleton 5 in Maya and honestly, it's amazing. I wasn't sure how well it would work with my model because it is so low poly but I came out surprisingly well. So Advanced Skeleton gives you the joints from a template and once they're all lined up you can build the controllers to see how it will move. Because you do all of this in stages, you can change and update the rig at any point. There are a few different methods to bind the skin and this is one of them, but in the end I didn't use the Skin Cage because it didn't seem necessary for my model. Once the body rig was done I spent a LONG time trying to get the facial rig to work. I was clearly doing something wrong the first few times I tried it because it worked just fine when I sat down and worked through it step by step! The skeleton also comes with pre-made walk cycles so I put my character into these to see how the de...

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I've really enjoyed keeping a production blog throughout my masters course so I'm hoping on over to Tumblr where I can follow some other awesome 3D artists! So you can find me here: http://harlequin-werewolf.tumblr.com/ Also, a few of my classmates are on Tumblr here: https://diebrigkuchler.tumblr.com/ https://myanimationjourney.tumblr.com/ https://picturemoving.tumblr.com/ https://tututugod.tumblr.com/ http://mayacossette.tumblr.com/

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