RPP3 - Game Animations

The animations I made for the game Now Playable Character. It was hard to work with these oddly proportioned characters (and bad skin weightings because of time constraints oops). They are cute and served their purpose, but boy are they rough.

RPP3 - Character Rigs

Finished skeletons and rigs of my two character assets.

I decided to try my hand at IK for the hero character. It worked pretty well, even though his legs are so stumpy. 

I also rigged his hat, so I can make super cute animations with it!

RPP3 - Character Texture Maps

Here are the models textured in Substance Painter! I had a lot of fun with this. Our game is very stylized and we decided to only use base color maps, so I had to get a little creative with showing color on edges to give the illusion of shadow.

(definitely some mistakes on the hero's color map! oopsy)

Animation Week 7 - Irish Dance Sequence Pass #2

Here is the second pass:

I really didn't change too much this week because I had a large project I was working on simultaneously. The notes my teacher gave me were mostly about the weight and hips, but I'm still struggling with it.

RPP3 - Sculpt of Failure

So I took the hiRes model into ZBrush to add more details because I was an overachiever. The vest and buttons and patches and stitches turned out alright in my opinion and the hair is cool even though he has a receding hairline.

HOWEVER -
Putting the hair in Maya is where the issues arose. Even after deleting the inside faces and probably a thousand unneeded edges on the mesh, the hair was still like 10k tris. Just the hair. Also, when I put the sculpt into Substance to be textured, the models refused to bake. So I wasted about 15 hours worth of work :(

RPP3 - 3D Character Models

Here are the model and UVs for the NPC I created using Maya:

 low res

  

hi res

And here are the model and UVs for the hero:

RPP3 - Character Concept

For this round, I was solely responsible for the two main characters in our game, Now Playable Character. Here are the original concepts:

 The playable character and typical fantasy shopkeeper.

The stereotypical hero.

Animation Week 6 - Irish Dance Leap Sequence

Since I miss dancing 10 hours every week, I decided to do a short Irish dance looping sequence. I found a nice model/rig online (https://www.meryproject.com/download). The front view needs a lot of love still....Super excited to keep polishing this up even after bootcamp. I need to work on the weight and making her jump launches more believable. 

For anyone interested, the hopping steps she is doing are called switches and the large leap is called a freeze jump (aka birdie). 

Below is the reference I used (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O60DLAEYEnU)

I also included a capture of my graph editor as of now because I think they are super cool looking and I like scaring my non-artist friends with how complicated they look.

3D Art Week 6 - Cannon Textures using Substance Painter

Cannon after being textured in Substance Painter. If I had more time, I would have done some more specific details, but overall I'm happy with it.

Some close-ups of the details.

 Texture Map as seen in Substance.

Base color texture map exported.

Normals texture map exported.

OCT Texture Map Exported.

ORM Map exported.

Screenshots of the cannon imported into a game project in UE4.

I scaled up the cannon a little bit as well. Mannequin for reference.