Month: November 2024

Rigging:  To facilitate posing, my creature was then rigged and weight painted in Blender. However, on checking the weight painting, I discovered that issues had been created in the extremities of tail appendage due to some weight painting leaking into other joints within the pelvis. However once the ‘bone’ causing the problem had been identified,Continue reading Character Creation: Navigating the Industry Pipeline – Rigging and Posing

Texturing: With UV mapping complete, the next stage of the pipeline was to texture the model in Substance 3D Painter. Already having a clear vision from the development stage of the project of the colouration and textures I needed to use to both make my creature emotive and relay its backstory, I quicky realised thatContinue reading Character Creation: Navigating the Industry Pipeline – Texturing

UV Mapping: The basic process of preparing a model for texturing in Substance 3D Painter had been taught in first year, which involved marking the natural edges and seams and unwrapping the model, before then combining the mapped pieces into an ordered UV map and baking these as a ‘normal’ map. However, given the detailContinue reading Character Creation: Navigating the Industry Pipeline – UV Mapping

Source: Eun, C. 2023 (cganimator.com blog)   Retopology: The next stage in the pipeline was retopology; a process which creates more optimal geometry, and a clean, quad-based mesh. However, as some detail may be lost when retopologising the model, additional sculpting is often subsequently required to add this in again. Understanding that, as it notContinue reading Character Creation: Navigating the Industry Pipeline – Retopology

  An important part of this assignment was to also gain a more in-depth understanding of the industry pipeline and the workflow involved in 3D character creation, as shown in the diagram below. Therefore, with the concept design stage now completed, the next stage was to begin modelling and sculpting. Source: Serra, 2017   ModellingContinue reading Character Creation: Navigating the Industry Pipeline – Modelling/Sculpting