Homo Habilis - Oika (UE4 real time FUR / ancestor reconstruction)
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Hi!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aRnW9J
https://www.instagram.com/josedacu/
I did this Homo Habilis back in 2018 for Oika, an episodic interactive experience for VR devices.
Working on this guy was really fun (and challenging), learned a bit about facial reconstruction, created some highly customizable shaders (included a video overview in my artstation with some examples), placed all of those fur cards by hand 😅, the fur texture atlas was created using Xgen.
Closeup:
https://youtu.be/W4HMG5_44MM
Turntable:
https://youtu.be/o3n_r_Ga5z4
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aRnW9J
https://www.instagram.com/josedacu/
I did this Homo Habilis back in 2018 for Oika, an episodic interactive experience for VR devices.
Working on this guy was really fun (and challenging), learned a bit about facial reconstruction, created some highly customizable shaders (included a video overview in my artstation with some examples), placed all of those fur cards by hand 😅, the fur texture atlas was created using Xgen.
Closeup:
https://youtu.be/W4HMG5_44MMTurntable:
https://youtu.be/o3n_r_Ga5z4
Replies
Expression Test
Animation Test
The proportions were a bit weird if you compare him to a human, he was 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in), but his arms were really long, I was asked to make a bit taller than a standard Homo Habilis, but still is kind of unsettling 😬
The shaders of this guy were really fun to work on, I did a highly customizable shader that allowed my client to modify the looks of the character a lot, the inherited the skin BC by default, but you could colorize it any way you like. You could dye different areas, colorize the roots independently from the tips or even use custom patterns if you wanted to go crazy 💇🏽♀️💈
Here's a quick video overview:
It was a really fun project to work on, learned a lot and two years after delivering it, I'm still pretty happy with the results
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aRnW9J