Character Rigging

Today I started rigging our Rebel Punk Sci-Fi character, I started off by orienting the joints, which is something that I find annoying and a lot of times have issues with, but I found a really short tutorial that explained how I should be orienting the joints when rigging, the tutorial was very helpful and so I managed to orient all of the joints and now she is ready to be fully rigged. Orienting the joints in the fingers was super annoying but I managed to do it :D

The next step for me is to create some controllers for those joints. I will be creating an FK arm instead of IK, because it is more useful for walk,run and jump animation cycles which is what we need for our game. The legs will be IK legs with a set of attributes for the foot.

The controls for the fingers will also be a set of attributes (hopefully haha), if not they will be normal FK finger controls.

I'm still deciding whether it'd be better to have a FK spine or a ribbon spine. I will also try to create some blendshapes for the face if I have enough time.

The hair will also be rigged in order to get a nicer follow through, secondary actions,etc. I will most likely use joints for the hair.

3D Character Modelling

It's been a while since my last post, but this is what I've been doling so far since then. I modeled the base body for our character, which I created in advanced from my own original design that I came up with for this assessment, "the Rebel Punk sci-fi girl character", which I'm planning to use for my own personal projects in the future.

Original concept. We also decide to do her hair they way I designed it.

This is the designn from which I 3d modeled the face for my own original character.

I gave the base body 3d model to Michael so he can model the clothes and do the UV maps for it. I then started working on reshaping my original face that I created for my own character in order to fit the one that I came up with for our game(the one in the image above) and I also started modeling the hair.

For the hair I decided to use planes  to form the shape and because we would be able to apply alpha maps to them to create a more "realistic " hair effect.

Sadly this game requires our characters and assets to be low poly, therefore a lot of detail is lost, but oh well, there's only so much you can do in low poly :P ) 

Concepts for Assets - Game Interactive

These are the concepts that I came up for a sci fi asset that we could use in our game.

Final 2 concepts

This is a render version of my checkpoint asset using basic materials in maya(not UV mapped yet). It uses particle effects to simulate a type of sci-fi energy effect once the character steps in the middle.

I am not sure if I will be using the particle because I don;t really know how to make them loop yet, once I figure it out,chances are that I will apply them and use them in the asset.

Game - Character Concepts

I came up with another concept of our character's face based on my first designs. I will try to come up with more concepts to see how far this character can be developed.
 The colors are still being explored, but I like how blue hair looks and bright neon eyes to make her look more sci-fi.

Game Assets - Environment

I've been having a pretty hard time coming up with environment asset concepts for our game, ideas are not really flowing and I've only done 1 concept so far, which I decided to model to have a better view of it in 3D. 

The idea behind this concept is that it will work as a check point for the character, I added particles to it too,

After the presentation on tuesday, Michael, Jacob and I decided to chose the concepts we liked the most, they all liked the style of my concept and we decided to come up with new concepts around that style, which is the Rebel Sci-Fi Punk style.

Hopefully we'll have a final character concept by the end of this week so we can move on to do the turn around for it and start modeling it in 3D.

This is the concept that set the style of the character.

This one is fine but probably won't make it to the next round haha

This is probably my favorite concept so far.

Concepts - Interactive

So I finally finished my environment concept for our game idea and also finished the level design map thing.

For the environment concept I simply did a quick version of what I think the level could look like, I really like Neon art so I tried to incorporate that too.

This is the level design map I came up with but apparently went a bit crazy on it and made it pretty large, so I was told to do a smaller/simpler version. :)

This one is the smaller and more simplified version of the one before. The red robot guard will be shooting bullets or laser beams and if you are wondering what that spider web looking thing is, well they are simply lines showing the range of his gun. for this particular level his range is between 0 & 80 degrees.

Mood board, We all contributed with a variety of different images for references.

Colour Palette. Michael did it based off the colours in the mood board.

Theme and style. Platformer, 3D and Cell Shaded

References.