I spent the day sorting Gus’ skin weights, and posing him. I’m really happy with the finished look for this character, and I think sorting the skin weights really helped the model to look crisp:
The skin weights for this model ended up being fairly simple; I only really needed to ensure that the arms and legs didn’t alter the hood too much. Nothing else was moving enough to warrant going into too much detail with it!:
I added some simple little spheres around the model, just to convey fireflies and to add a bit more visual interest to the model:
After a few little tweeks and adjustments, I finally got my model to a place where I was happy with it, and uploaded it to sketchfab:
I noticed after this upload that he looked a little lop-sided, I didn’t like that – I had originally adjusted his backpack to be lop sided on his back in favour of his right arm, to show that it was being held there, however I decided to stick it back to being flat against Gus’ back to keep him looking stable on his feet:
