Heres some updates of the pillar modelling - I haven't modelled in a while so I'm still very rusty. For the finer detailing and the paws I created some alphas
Did some retargeting tests of a previous export of one of my rigs and it seems to work well? Retargeted the rig to the rig of AnimX Advanced Cats to see if we can save time on the movement for the game since it has a range of animations to choose from. Though I did encounter some problems with the feet not being weighted…
Hey, I'm not an environment artist, but I do make hair cards which follow a very similar pipeline. You're right that the reason you would want to follow the shape of the leaves is to avoid too many overlapping transparent pixels but as engines have advanced, the amount that this improves optimisation is negligible and so…