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?

Narrative: Main Prop Concept Art & Orthographic Views

In our narrative, we have a main prop that our character is going to have an interaction with. So, Scott have done the concept art for it and Rosalyn has gone to do the orthographic shots for it. Ayunie will then model it.

Concept Art of Main Prop:

Orthographic Shots of Main Prop:

Narrative: Toy Monkey Orthographics

FRONT

SIDE

TOP

Narrative: Character Concept Art - Toy Monkey

Narrative: Character Further Development

After our tutorial we have decided to make him look more clumsy. In the sketches above, we have him at a resting position. We will continue to give him personality in different positions and situations to help exaggerate his clumsiness. We have taken the height back down slightly and made him circus-esque.

Narrative : Character Development

After some finalizing of what are character is we have decided on a Toy Monkey. We are thinking that he should be leaner however, need to find a good balance of monkey and toy and not delve more in one of those areas. Also we are thinking of materials that it could be made out of for example, wood, burlap or soft felt.