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Re: Catwoman bust (aka screw the comfort zone) - WIP
I think with each iteration you bring it clser to original concept. For me the most noticeable thing in the eyes is that the lower eyelid is more forward than the upper one, it should be vice versa. However, it's hard to give critique on smaller details, when large forms are missing or off, like head / skull shape, neck,… -
Re: Technical Artist - a poll.
Even though Rob answered it rather well... A programmer will write tools based on specifications, and those specifications can be loose or tight. A TA can write tools based on knowledge of the subject. A TA can write tools from the direction of an artists workflow. A TA can write simple tools for their fellow artists that… -
Re: [Maya] IK Handle deforming model
jfeez, what you describe is indeed good practice, but has nothing to do with the twisting of a non defined pole vector. The same for joint scaling and scale compensate. Advanced setups have their skeletons for skinning and exporting separated from the control rigs skeleton anyways, but this is not a must have for simple… -
Re: Terrorist/Mercenary Character WIP
Haven't had much time to work on this lately, but I've made some revisions, most importantly I deflated his shoulders to be less huge. I seem to exaggerate shoulders, probably from looking at too many characters with colossal shoulder armor all the time. They may actually still be wider than normal, but for the project we… -
Re: Any good references for drapery?
You can tell a true person who knows anatomy from someone who looked too often at medical models. Unfortunately Makkon, Civadi is the later. Proof? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/Makkon/Reference/GiovanniCivardi_anatomy02.jpg The rib cage on a living breathing human being is much more angled. In fact there is only… -
Original character from XSI into Face Poser ??????
I'm in the process of trying to take my own original character from Softimage/XSI 6 and make it ready for full facial animation and lip synch in the Source SDK Face Poser. I've been using the tutorials "Character Setup Overview" and "Character Facial Animation Shapekey Set" from the Valve Developer site, which have been… -
Re: Maximum bone influence for rigging a current gen game character?
I think Unreal, CryENGINE and unity cap out at 4, I personally don't see a reason to go above that, except maybe in the face but even then you can get by with 4 bone influences just fine. 5 seems like overkill and I'm having trouble imagining a scenario where you would need 5 bones to influence 1 vert? Other than possibly… -
Re: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Meshes using existing skeletons for animation is a great example of how limited the system is. Want to make a dwemer assault rifle? well you better give it awkward animations and build it's attack script ontop of the crossbow because you're not allowed anything else. Want your own monster? better force it's mesh to fit… -
Re: Basic rigging question
Yep, that's the one. There are probably some sample files of built rigs or just the final skeleton and mesh, that would make good reference. I would copy the orientation and rotation order from the default, even for something like FPS hands. If the model could conceivably share animations with the default rig they require… -
Re: Animating Models with Component Design
The skeleton of your character forms a hierarchy, and you can insert and append other objects to that hierarchy, and when the skeleton plays its animation these objects will follow the bones that they are attached to. In most engines you can modify this hierarchy dynamically, with programming. In Unity, for example, you…
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