Character Mesh - Geometry

The geometry for my characters mesh matches reasonably well with the topology sheet I created during pre-production. Just like in the design I created extra polygins on the joints as they deform more than the rest of the body and need to bend smoothly so it looks realistic. I think there are less polygons in general on the rest of my model which is good as it lowers the render time slightly when rendering images and video.

 

 

Character Design - Dynamic Pose

This is the dynamic pose for my 3d character.

Character Animation - Final Output

Here is my final character animation video fully animated.

Character Animation - Running

The final scene of my video is the comical ending where my character attempts to escape a large boulder which was accidentally summoned by his spell.

I am not happy with my characters run cycle in this scene as it is unrealistic and I will be changing it for the final video.

Character Animation - Spellcasting with effects

Here is my charcter animation so far but now I have added special effects to the spellcasting parts using the 'particle playground' effect in Adobe After effects.

Character Animation - Spellcasting

Here is my wizard casting his spell based on the body movement from the game Skyrim.

 



And bellow is the spell taking effect by the appearence of a magic circle.

Now that I have created these scenes I will be adding special effects to them in Adobe After effetcs to make the character and scene appear more magical and visually interesting.

Character Animation - Spellcasting Refference

As my 3d character is a wizard he will cast a spell in my video. For refference I looked at video's on youtube of the characters of Harry Potter casting spells with their wands, but I found these movements to be simple and not visually interesting, it was the special effects that gave their visual appeal. So afterward I looked at the master level spell casting body movement from Skyrim and found it much more visually interesting.