Low-Polygon Character

[Rostum]

I might be able to, but I thought the claw-like hand looked kind of cute. I'll see after I finish this essay and collage.

[KoShiatar]

It is cute indeed, and it'll sure will be even better when skinned, but it does look a little bit strange.

[Rostum]

Update! I have made up my own rig, I got a lot of information from random tutorials and some documentation, and I think it's all good. Lots of controls for everything, all I need to do is bind it and then paint the weights.

Here's an example of a little video (my first Camtasia production!):
YouTube - Rigging Example

So, now once I have finished it off I will be UV mapping it (which is just the absolute WORST. And then painting textures (fun!).

[Rostum]

Skinning almost done!

YouTube - Skinning Example

Just need to make a few more tweaks, but here is the basic idea.

[Shoeberto]

That is super awesome, great work.

[Fatal Impurity]

If I ever want to make a game I'm getting you to be chief modeler!

[Rostum]

Thanks guys!

And OMFG, UV Mapping is my most hated field of 3D. I understand there are newer ways to go about it, and we're even getting to the stage of painting textures (i.e. ZBrush). But we've had to do it the old standard way, which is painful...

Here's what my UV's were before with an automatic projection (a huge mess):


Here they are once I had finished (nice and clean, hardly any distortion at all and seams all the in the right places):


Now on to the fun part of actually painting the textures! Yay!

[Shoeberto]

Man, I couldn't imagine doing that. I think the only time I've done uv mapping though was with really, really simple objects so it wasn't hard to match everything up.

Keep us posted on how the texture painting goes

[scrumpleberry]

This is all fantastic. I've never done anything in 3D, but I love it!

[Rostum]

Edit: I'll just replace this post with the final product. I will also update the original post to show it.

So here it is! All finished! Well I have to do some calibration animation, but nothing worth showing.



Also, incase anyone was interested, this was the final texture map I made in Photoshop (just used an airbrush, lots of work and it still looks bad). Note that the original texture size is 1024x1024, I just reduced it so I could show it here.



Enjoy!

Oh, btw. 2850 Triangles.