Category: Virtual Space

Initial idea

Scene was set in forest, our main character is very lonely because she is the only one left of her species, so she couldn’t show herself to other animals or people. She looks at bears, they are busy looking for food, she looks at birds, they are feeding their children, seems like everyone is busy about doing their own things. As time passes, her mood starts to effect the forest’s health, trees are starting to die, animals starts to think what is happening? (not finished)

Final idea

I kind of changed the whole idea of the story, because I think it’s kind of impossible for me to finish it, so I changed it to a much simpler version, and I did a very rough sketch:

The story is basiclly the main character is having a walk in the forest, and suddently realised that she’s late for something, so she she starts to run, after nearly tripped over twice, she woke up on the table in school/home.

I did rigging several times and this is the best one I get out of all of it.

I struggled when adding on the controllers, I looked up many videos on YouTube and other viedo websites, many of them are talking about very basic controllers that only tells you how to create a controller from bottom to the top, so I spend a while try to create other parts, but it didn’t work well, therefore I went back to YouTube and thankfully I found a video that’s doing a character controllers, which helpped me to add on the shoulders and hands.

Mixamo testing

I also put her into Mixamo and had a play around with different animations.

After a bit of playing around, I started to make my own animation, here is the first time tried:

Here is the final walking scene which I’m really appreciate with:

I did it all in low poly, so it’s easier and match the character as well.

Animation

Final animation

I couldn’t export the animation from Maya, therefroe it’s very blurry, I tried to find out why it’s not working for around 2 hours.

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