August ProgBlog #1: Protective 3 animated

in #aer3 months ago


top posting this one for "portfolio" purposes

Four years ago (x_x) I made this piece:

Protective is actually 2 and the original Protective was badly drawn in a uni notebook a hundred million years ago

Earlier this year I decided to "continue" this slightly older video

There I was doing cloth sim, hair dynamics I think and also testing out this clumsy rig I'd made for the Avian crests. In this one I was purely testing the Dragonkin rig and trying extremely hard not to get distracted with (re)learning cloth sim and seeing if the new hair system could animate yet. I also made it slightly nicer than I normally would because it's been a while since I animated properly.

There's a number of things left to fix but I made myself leave it because it was supposed to be just to test out the rig, and I really, really, really need to get back to building.

Most of what I got out of that was that I seem to be missing some controllers (Zara's rig had some extra controllers that either hadn't generated or just didn't exist) and I need 7-9 tail controllers (and hopefully not more x_x) as 5 could make one tight loop but not more without everything going awry.

If you stare really hard at the last pic you might see Zara's gigantic owl eyes through the lenses.

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the little video's are cool. err..is that purple or blue or both?

Thanks ^_^

The character? The first camera in the second video showed the correct (blue) colour, I actually have no idea why the second camera (still images) changed it so much but it was late at night and I just wanted stills real quick so I didn't check x_x

Incredible work. After my stint in 3D, I see still broken topology in my "dreams" at night. Getting something to this stage, no matter how long (or how short) it takes is an amazing achievement.

Thanks! ^_^ LoL how long were you doing it for that you can still see it? XD That tells me I'm doomed, I can see topography everywhere I look at the moment if I stare at something hard enough XD

and yet I'm still so bad at retopo somehow

For a semester at university, then for a few years on and off after that. :)

Guess I'm seeing wireframes til I die then XD