[Riot Creative Contest 2017] - Sarah Maigrot
polycounter lvl 4
Hi everyone ! 
It's my first polycount contest and I can't wait to start (just need to find the best rig and rigged my weapon
). Unfortunately I'll update during the week end as much as possible (I don't have enough time during the working days).
It's my first polycount contest and I can't wait to start (just need to find the best rig and rigged my weapon
). Unfortunately I'll update during the week end as much as possible (I don't have enough time during the working days).
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Hey Polycount !
It's time to start ! After different trials, I've found the rig I'll use for the contest. It's from the website riot shared. The rig is “ Mechanix Woman “. I already have an idea about my character and I don't want to be influenced by a "beautiful" character (with textures, accessories for example) or do not focus enough on the poses and silhouette.
So, let's talk about my character and her weapon:
I've imagined a woman who likes dancing and having fun in fights. She's really agile with her weapon and never stops playing and dancing with it, likes the weapon is her dance partner. For her, fights are like shows, and fighters are actors. To please the audience (and also because it's funny !), she likes taunting people.
The weapon is a hoop which can transform to a lasso. Also there are spikes on it and they can be scaled so she can choose when they appear. With it, her moves are always fluid and in union like it's a part of her.
About the animations:
For the moment I've choose to do a recall animation. For the moment, I'm looking for poses to get used to the rig and then, I start working on the recall.
My references are a mix between salsa for her footsteps, hip-hop for the dynamic and strong poses, and gymnastic rhythmic for the movements with the weapon.
See you soon and good luck everyone ! (I've seen during the week a lot of good ideas
)
@AnthonyAnimation I did the weapon, I thought first about a switch IK / FK with an IK spline, but I needed to set up a lot of things to get this working properly (like an influence between controllers). So, I choose to just have FK to change the weapon from a hoop to a lasso, it's not the easiest way to animation a lasso, but it's a good challenge. I hope that answered your question
It's been a long time I didn't post update ! So, I've started the recall animation and I've still a long way to go
If you have any feedback, I have uploaded this on syncsketch (first time I use this, hope the link works
Also, I've realised the gif has cut the end of my animation. I'll do a new gif next week !
Sorry it was really hard to find time to work on this and to upload the progress. So I'm here right now with this animation, I still have so much work to do on this animation like from the jump to the end (I focused on the first part of the animation). But, I feel I can exaggerate more the first part of the animation. What do you think about that ? Maybe the timing is too linear ?
I have done different views, there are uploaded on syncsketch. Please feel free to leave feedbacks !
https://syncsketch.com/sketch/7aaa2247df73/
You can see right away how much their body spins around, legs and arms flair out and tuck back in, and the head, while focused, whips and leads the motions.
Best of luck!