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thomasp · May 2005

here's what i've been working on in my spare time lately. the pic serves as a link to a larger image which shows off more facial poses.

for this characters head i've only used game-engine compatible stuff: alphamaps, normalmaps, specular and gloss. the facial rig consists of bones and no morphs, the hair is animated via clothsim and baked down to bones by the press of a button. the head with hair, eyes and mouth interior counts up to around 4500 or so triangles.

i've already started animating a small sequence and will post it as soon as it's ready.

Weiser_Cain · May 2005

Very, very nice!

pairorat · May 2005

quite amazing, I'd love to see what the wires look like.

rollin · May 2005

hi joe

i have to say that i don´t realy like the "design" of the head.. but the hair looks fantastic and the overall feeling of the skin.. but maybe a bit too tone in tone.. i i´d love to see him in motion

!!

HonkyPunch · May 2005

Looks almost like something they would put in elder scrolls IV.....

Makkon · May 2005

I nearly craped myself upon seeing that image. that's increadible!

Daz · May 2005

Thats a nice lighting setup you have there. Theres something about the front view of the fact that's bugging me. It's not nearly as cool looking as the profile. And the stretchy bump map just below his eyes on his cheeks is irksome. But this is pretty cool

SouL · May 2005

The head looks squished in Y. It's emphasized by the horizontally large features.
What would it look like with the hair a darker tone? I think the light colored eyebrows are blending in too much with the flesh tones, giving him a bald face look.

Other than that it looks pretty neat.

thomasp · May 2005

i guess you guys are right - i'll try darker colors for the eyebrows, his hair however shall remain white. he's supposed to be quite old.

thanks for the crits & praises so far. i'm currently improving facial deformations and create my set of poses for animating. will update.

thomasp · May 2005

here's a quickie-deformtest (avi, 300 kb) that i cooked up in an hour. not really a serious animation since that stuff takes a lot more time to achieve.

rollin · May 2005

ha looks cool especially when he swallows *unk*

hm only thing that if find a bit strange is the fluttering of the hair at the beginning

Psionic · May 2005

Wow, thats some awesome work...the anim looks very slick as well!!

Sa74n · May 2005

i think the main problem is that he looks too edgy still. maybe you shouldve spared some polys where it wouldnt have been as obvious and given them to the nose and eyebrows and the parts that influence the shape most.

i could be wrong tho.. maybe post a wireframe?

killingpeople · May 2005

i like its eyes.

thomasp · May 2005

the hair is moving that way because the cloth hadn't settled in - it's a snippet from a longer animation where there was head movement just a few frames ahead. also i was using a collision object with not enough resolution in the neck area, fixed that now.

new test.

shotgun · May 2005

Why, he's quite an adorable little pussy cat, isn't he?
He could use a pet dentist though

Nice job.

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