Initial ideas
First idea
I’m really interested in the project as we are developing a character ourselves. Fantasy is always the first thing that jumps into my mind before I even start my brain storming about that I might do, and this time I decided to follow the steps of our first project we did in Virtual Principle. As I did an enviroment about trees and lake in the first project, I want to make this avatar an elf (Something links to trees or forests)?
Some changes..
AS the week passes, I noticed that I want it to become closer to reality while still keeping the features of elf, therefore I made the clothes simpler, more like somthing that we will be wearing in reality. (Also becasue making a huge dress is probably too much for me right now? I don’t think it’s going to come out nicely, when doing the animation it will probably go wrong as well…)
Modelling
I started the character in Maya, it was alright until I start to model the hair.
The first time I modelled the hair right from the model of the body, and when I make the model smooth (by clicking 3 on keyboard), the hair looks like spikes instead of hair, so I found some help from YouTube, “simple character modelling”, it tells me to copy paste the scalp and model the hair from there, and it was alright. (forgot to take photos of the hair when modelling)
Cloth and eyes