Character UV Map Final

This is my new UV Map. I have now been able to unfold various parts much better and move bits around so there is less empty space between the maps.

This is the new colour map for my UV map.

Character Model UV Map 2 - Version 2

This is an alternative UV map where I was able to move the UV's around to get rid of some of the free space, but this UV map has the same problem as my other one and I cannot select the UV points in the UV Texture Editor to unwrap or resize the maps more.

Character Model UV Map 2

Here is my upgraded UV map, I have been able to unwrap parts of the UV map, but the feet and hands still will not unwrap at all and now their UV's won't be selected in the UV Texture Editor so I cannot edit them further.

Character Model UV Map Colour

Despite the problems will unfolding various parts of the UV Map, I have created a simple UV texture for my model. Since I am using simple block colours the bad UV maps do not matter too much.

Character Model UV map

Here is my Wizards UV map. Obvious problems are hands (Top Left) which do not seem to unfold correctly. As well as the feet (Middle Left) which also to not seem to unfold properly and have 6 points of each have combined into a single UV point. This prevents the feet from unfolding properly.

Wizard Model Attempt2

My second attempt at modeling my Wizard. It went much better than my fitst attempt and I have been able to almost complete it. Because I started with a cube for the body, extruding and moving the polygons has been alot easier.

Wizard Model Attempt1

My first attempt at modeling my character. For a first attempt it isn't too bad, but because I started with the head, which is an edited sphere, and extruded from there I have been having problems with the body shape.

Character Model Stencil

Stencil to help me model my Character.

Character Animation Test

A quick animation test of the first scene of my storyboard and animatic. In this I am using Norman, the character rig used by animation students at the University of Lincoln.

Character Animation Animatic

An animatic for my character animation to test timing and camera angles.

Wizard Model Topology

This is my estimate of what my wizards topology will look like.

Wizard Turn Around

A turn around of my wizard.

Wizard Character Animation Storyboard2

An improved storyboard for my wizards animation based on feeback from my classmates and tutor. My wizard now has interaction with his hat, multiple movements of walking, spell casting, and running, also special effects will be added to the final render for the magic and smoke.

Wizard Animation Storyboard

A quick idea for my wizards animation, he will attempt to do magic three times, each time going more comically wrong than the last.

Character Poses

A few possible poses for my wizard's final render.

Wizard Turnaround Full

A better detail version of my character turn around.

Wizard Turn Around

Upon deciding that I want to model and animate a wizard, I created this turn around.

Robot Character Designs

A quick brainstorm on what a robot character might look like.

Wizard Character designs

A quick brainstowm of what my character might look like if I make a wizard.

Facial Expression Practice

Some practice of facial expressions to sommunicate emotion.

Body Shape

Body shape plays a big part of character design and helps communicate the personality and type of character they are.

Character Rig Walk Cycle 2

Improvement of my character rig Phil's walk cycle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHLXv6DUmOw&feature=plcp

Character Animation Practice

Some extra practice at animating my rig Phil to do something more complicated than walk.

Character Design Idea's

Character Refference's I got from Google Images for my Character. So far I have 3 idea's, I'm not sure which one to go for yet.

Knight

  

 Robot

Wizard

Dynamic Character Pose Refference Sketches

A collection of dynamic pose sketches I can use as refference and maybe inspiration when designing my character.

Geometry Practice

My attempt to create a human over the summer is a good example of bad geometry. He may look ok as he is, but if he was rigged he would be very difficult to pose or animate due to the lack of edge-loops which allow models to deform smoothly.

Character Design page3

A quick practice at drawing the correct body proportions on a simple standing character without adding much detail, simply trying to get things the right size and length.

Character Design page2

Second page of character designs. Practicing some development of face and head shape drawing, concluding that it i would be easier to model a character with a simple hat and/or no hair.

Character Designs page1

Page 1 of initial character designs. Unsure of what kind of character to create.

Walk Cycles

33 frame character walk cycle plan. Frame 33 is animated but not rendered because it is the same as frame 1, so the final render can be played in a loop.

Character Rig Walk Cycle

My first practice at animating a rigged character.

Walk Cycle Animation

3D character walk cycles to guide and influence my character animation.

Normal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1-oktjC03M

Happy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5ehIJl0DA

Angry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS634XtXGO4

Sneaky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4xYRJiTXPg

Geometry Examples

Examples of Geometry to guide my character model.
Good geometry requires a good number of polygons to make the model smooth, but not so many that rendering takes longer than necissary. Also extra polygons are required on the front/outside of joints so it can bend properly.

Character Design_ Influence2

A second character model moodboard to influence my ideas.

Character Design_Influence

A moodboard of character models to influence my designs.

Walk Cycle

Walk cycles for use in Character Animation.

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