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Working away on the animation! I'm *hoping* to have it ready for next week or the weekend after

In the meantime, look at my hospital bed, there are many like it but this one's mine

Just working away on the animation for that animatic i made

While I was working on the tests, i listed some problems i found with the character that I needed to fix moving forward

Y'all probably won't understand any of this but I'd thought i'd share my notes here anyway lmao

THE NOTES:

/attach ass master peg to IK bodymaster (1 peg lower) [it's not what it sounds like O_o]

/add rotation trans limit to neck shadow (when head rotates)

/add controllers to mouth side cutters (those cheeck ones)

/add controllers to mouth cutter (headShape_cutlayer1) + deformer?

/add controller + deformer to body shadow cutter (also set peg location)

/IK shoulders need their own peg

/add empty drawing layers for hand and feet shadows

/^add controllers

/mouth shape s_dd_2 no lower lip (its on upper lip layer)

/fix mouth teeth holes

/dupe feet drawing nodes to IK ones (missing toeless deformed layers)

/something is wrong with the knee deformers on the IK legs

/give knee deformers 4 POINTS not 3

/when character is flipped, ik foot #2 goes off in some direction > its because leg 2 ik foot 2PC isnt connected to top peg (fixed arms too)

>>> EX_CT1_IS_AF2 seems to be broken (duped forearm image switch shadow)-- check other shadows [causing syntax error in code then fixing code fixes the problem]

/add nose shadow

/shorten the overlay lines on the forearms

/add dif constr switch to all of the other mouth animation parts

/rename DIR_CTL or whatever its called (other chars gotta have it too)

/?Less blur on the highlights

/lower teeth needs seperate layer for centre line

/TH shape needs rework (doesnt look good at side/quarter view)

/nose holes have multiple deformers for some reason

/change colour of head top 2PC controller

/change colour of head highlight mask controller

/add weighted deform to head highlight cutter + make it 8 points!

/add +3 empty "extra mouths" that can be added to manually

/add deformer for upper lip

/leg FK shadows pegs locations havent been set

/add deformers to ass shadows

/leg shadows have to cut into knee as well

/?FK arm (+leg?) highlights need deformer (or connect to arm deformers?)

/check leg and arm IK dupes for unconnected nodes (mainly the TLs)

/highlights + shadows put forearm and arm on seperate IS

/rig tpl does not import the SUM expressions: create new object and attach the SUMs to it, then they will import

/add kinematic output for ik shade deformers (shade following arm and then manual edit problem) [I JUST DELETED THE IK DEFORMERS]

/feet (+ hand?) shapes need to lose the round kink at their connection point (or add new kinkless shapes)

? feet need different toe angles (think of feet positions in walk cycles)

/have body shadow cut into shoulders

/add seperate deformers for dif eye shapes

/peg nose + eyes together? and maybe face

/add shadows for legs where they connect to body

/adjust light setup according to file "Proj_i_ch_T1_test2"

/put light layer a few z forward

/RENAME DUPES

Got the rotation working for the dude! (ass included)

Animation test is next :>

Thanks to everyone who and gave feedback on the eye problem!

It seems opinions were very evenly divided between the square and triangle eyes-- thus I have decided to stick with the triangle eyes for now, but to give him the more normie-ish look I was going for, I put a line between his eyes to give like a visual hint of glasses, which might work

Let me know what you think of that idea!

Speaking of that, here is a gif of the progress on the character :D

(The line between the eyes can be scene in the last vers)

Almost done this dude! I'll show off what I can do with him in animation soon :>

Thanks! Enjoy your day folkz

For that green character i've been working on, which eye shape do you think would work better?

I was thinking squarish to better fit into the "normie" design concept but i'm not sure.

Vote here!

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxyhWwc5z7zeA6avN5gNtu2Hc4-vtyUpHN

I am still working away at the character, progress is painfully slow due to my time constraints. it's going to take a bit longer than i initially expected, but I'm optimistic for having something ready for this coming weekend. I may show something before then! He's looking cool so far with the lighting effects :>

In the meantime, I was thinking of this new eye shape for that character (see image). This dude is supposed to have a few "normie" qualities to him, so I thought giving him more squarish eyes that resemble glasses might fit that idea (like a nerd emoji).

What do you think though!? Triangle eyes or Square? let me know in the comments, i'd love some thoughts and feedback :>

I'll likely make a vote poll for it tomorrow or whenever but comments here will also be counted towards my decision :>

Thanks for reading and being here guys! talk to you all soon

Hello frens!

I am still hard at work at creating the first character, I got yall a lil preview here

He's missing his other limbs right now because i'm rigging up 1 leg and 1 arm first then i'm just going to duplicate them and put them on the other side of his body lololoeloeleoleelelelele

This is going to take me a lil bit, I'm hoping to have it done in about a week from now, so know to hear from me then.

...And then i got to rig up 2 MORE AAAAAAAAA

Anyway I'll probably do a quick test video after I finish making it hehehehe

talk you soon, and enjoy yourselves :>

If this GIF doesn't load go here ---> https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxRJeABJBGo5nwgbLrWgCaV8bImoEr7HEn

ALSO make sure to check out my latest lighting test video!

DO IT YOU GREEN PEA