Development Pictures

Body 1.

Body and Arm

Body, Arm and Leg

Foot

Hand

Hand on it's own

Head 1

Shoe

Top and Head

Full Body Render


This character didn't end up being completed because of short amount of time. However I did begin work on a new character which is the one I handed in as my final animation.
This character's appearance was strongly influenced by the Supernatural Character, Dean Winchester, as you can see from these two comparison photo's:
Dean


My Character:


As you can see, the two look pretty damn similar with their appearance, and I think it came out really well to be honest in looking realistic. I decided to go with the jeans and coat look because it really fit the mental appearance you get when you read about the main character and his persona. From the side the clothes look really good and in my own opinion look very well textured:


I used a lot of details with the eyes and really made them stand out and look realistic, I even managed to create half decent looking eyebrows for the character, as well as a good skin texture:


All this was pretty easy to do really, until it came to Weighting, yes.. the dreaded weighting that we only need to do one click to do perfectly.. ¬_¬:

The weighting gave me a massive problem on this character, because for some reason different parts of the model would not weight properly, no matter what I tried to do. I ended up spending about 5 weeks trying to weight, take away weight and then re-add it to a different part to get it all perfect. I had to remove weight from different parts of the body and re-apply it to another to try and balance the weighting out right. This took so long it's unreal, but really made me understand the concept of weighting. Controlling the camera to move into the arm of the character to flick between the lower spine and coat really was a struggle but I managed to get it all done and sorted out so that the clothing looked really good on the body.

I then went on to draw a very rough sketch of the Walk Cycle that I had in mind for my character, I also wrote about how he would move around whilst on the floor, how he would get up and then how he would walk off:

really looking good
espicly like the shoes and hands
I think if you get texture looking good on shirt will look really nice.

looking great, I love the way the body has taken shape

Liking the hands. The extra details like finger nails etc are cool.

I thinkyour legs have been done very well and model over all looks good, good luck with weighting.

hay callum model startin to look really good keep up the good work

this model has a really medievil look to it give it a mace an its right for smashin heads, would also look great textured.

You've got a good shape to your body going there, I think it will animate well.
You might need to do a bit of work on the way it mirrors over with the symmetry though, seem is very noticeable.

For my final model that has just been handed in, I personally think that it went well, but could of been a bit better. For starters, the render, trying to get it all done in time, the hair somehow went all funky and weird and wasn't perfectly on the characters head, as well as the fact I did not delete the Sword from the scene, which left the sword looking as if it was attached to his coat.
As well as the render, I hit a lot of road blocks with the weighting. Now.. this, to that of a better phrase, was a B**CH!!! Needless to say claire.. oh, what was it called again, oh yeah... AUTO WEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ¬_¬ I didn't use that, so the weighting just basically screwed with me every step of the way.
But I tried and tried, and I managed to get the weight about as good as I could get it in the time I had left.
I managed to get the clothing almost all on the body perfectly, only problem was I couldn't figure out every part of the body that had weight affecting it from other parts, which meant when the final render was done, part of the coat began to drag behind the character, which was really annoying.

I think when it came to animating the character, if I hadn't of spent so much time on the weighting I would of had longer to try and make his getting up off the ground and walk cycle a bit better. Despite the time, I think I did really well to get him to stand up and walk away, the getting up works quite well, expect is it slightly jumpy and looked a bit unrealistic, apart from that I think it looks quite good.
The walk cycle that I got him was simple, but maybe I could of changed the amount of swaying his arms does, because he kind of does walk off like he's part of the third reich... haha.

The work I did on all the textures really paid off and the character looked really good in the end, I was really made up with the way I modelled the coat, and I think gave it a really good look. One of my faveourite touches to the model would have to be the detail I put into the eyes and the tattoo's I gave him on his neck. Two images taken from the internet gave me two perfect sized tattoo's for the neck, which I personally feel is a really good touch to the model.

Overall, to improve my model, I'd manage my time a lot better, try and do the weighting quicker, and maybe have less complicated items of clothing on the character that require weighting. However, despite all the problems that hit me in the face, I think my model came out really well and I'm happy to say I've really proud of my first full 3D, animated character, and hope that this can be just 1 of many many more I will do in my future!