I’ve been using the material above in an attempt to understand how I might animated 2D textures on to our 3D character.
Unfortunately I was unable to get the eyes animated for the final game — I prioritised other things, such as animation, prop modelling and GUI, over this as as a group we had decided it wasn’t high priority. This is as far as I was able to get:
I’m really disappointed with myself that I wasn’t able to get this finished up and working for the final game, but I might try and get it working in my spare time during summer.
Some little concepts/examples of what the opening screen UI may look like:
I did some research on pinterest into some aesthetics for UI elements, particularly around our pixel-art focussed aesthetic:
I also did a little research online about how to put together a UI pack and what to consider, and in addition software recommendations and info on how to create effective pixelart:
This week I was working more on my sculpted character. I made one change to the base mesh itself:
I decided to add a little butt under the t-shirt, Lyndsey’s block out currently has one and I think that it looks a little better than floating tshirt with legs in my opinion.
I spent most of my week working on the randomised facial features intended for use on the base mesh. I started by sculpting hair out on blender, and then retopologised these in maya – I made a short, medium and long length hair asset:
I then moved on to facial Hair, which I hard-surface modelled in maya using the lattice deformer:
I think that the topology for the beard and moustache may be a little too dense, and this might be something I have to re-do. But, for the moment, I’m really happy with how these look.
Noses were next, of which there are 3 variations (also modelled in maya, long nose with lattice deformer):
Again, not 100% sure on the topology of these, they’re quite high poly – but they’re OK for the moment.
Finally, some glasses:
I threw the FBX files into maya randomly, just to see what the variations looked like together but also to make sure that the assets aligned with the face:
I’m pretty happy with the combinations, I think that I’ve done enough to have variation and they also fit on the face well.
I pulled a random model into Mixamo just to check that there were no glaring issues with the model that might occur during rigging:
It’s accidently Dave Grohl.
I pulled all of the assets into UE5 just to check there were no issues or errors with the mesh’s.
And a bit of scale checking for good measure.
Presentation Slides for presentation, 06/03/2023
I used some reference on youtube to see how other sculptors went about making hair:
I started modelling the base mesh for our tall character this week:
I also ran the character through mixamo for fun, I wanted to see what the character might look like animated and also if it animated properly. These came out pretty funny:
For the remainder of the week, I want to model some hair, noses and work on textures for eyes and facial features like moles, scars etc.
I worked on some test textures for a cereal box just to work out how we were going to be doing hero textures. After feedback, I realise that these textures are far too big:
