Narrative: Establishing Shots

Narrative: Character Sad Walk Cycle

This is another shot from our animation to test out a sad walk cycle of the monkey.

Narrative: Character Walk Cycle

This is our character's walk cycle.

Narrative: Character Facial Expression (Satisfied)

A test shot from our animation as we used the blendshape to express our character's feeling.

Narrative: Character Facial Expressions Development

This is the second set of blendshapes because as we moved along the project, we discovered that the scaling of the whole rig was not working properly and because of that, whatever that comes after in the pipeline was not working properly. Hence, Ayunie went back to fix the rig before doing the blendshapes again.

We also encountered problems when doing blendshape so Alan gave a hand and taught us to do a parallel blendshape for our character to ensure that the blendshapes work.

Narrative: Character Facial Expressions

After sculpting the various facial expressions, Ayunie went to do the blendshapes. However, there is a problem. The whole model seem to move down when everything else was kept the same when the blendshape was done.

Narrative: Character Rigging Complete

This is our character fully rigged. Ayunie has added additional joints to the ears so that we will have a better control of it. The character's ears will droop when it's sad and will rise when he's thinking or happy.

This is some of the character's expression. Since our character's eyes are buttoned eyes, which means it's fixed, the expressions will be controlled by the eyebrow and mouth movements.

@Alan Narrative: Character Skinning_Edit_02 (Bind Skin & Paint Weights)

This is the skinning done for the monkey. Will work on the rig next.
Alan, is it possible for me to start to set up the rig first and then see you tomorrow to do the feet? In the tutorials, the lower body was done first.

@Alan Narrative: Character Skinning (Bind Skin & Paint Weights)

Alan, I bound the joints to the skin and here's the preview of it.

However, I am unsure about on how to paint the weights for the Spine Joints and Pelvis. Could you guide me please? Thank you.

@Alan Narrative: Character Skinning (Building the Skeleton)

This is the skeleton of our character, built.

How would you suggest I build the tail? Should I parent it to the pelvis?