Toolkit 2: Facial Animation - Lesson 4

Toolkit 2 Submission Post

Life Drawing

Character Design

Mudbox

Sculpting

Body and Facial Animation

Infographics Updated

Acting

Pipeline 1: Jet Pack Jones (Completed up to Texturing Part 3 - Rivets)

Lighting and Rendering 2

Sampling & Noise Reduction

Ray Depth 

Maya Lights

Light Filters

Stylised Internal Lighting

HDR Images

Sky Dome Light

Stylised External Lighting

Standard Surface Shader 

Toon Shader

Geometry Override Sets

Physical Sky Light

Mesh Lights

Ambient Occlusion 

Photometric Lights

Depth of Field

Fog (Legacy) & Atmosphere

Displacement

Sub Surface Scattering

AOV's

Stand Ins (Proxies)

Motion Blur

Caustics



Previous Toolkit 2 Check-in Submission: 12/01/2018

Character Design Production Bible - The Nervous Knight (Updated)

After receiving feedback on my character bible, I revisited it and made some improvements which include: changes to the Knight's structural issues, (I made his neck thicker to support the head and helmet), I also made his cape a lot shorter so the silhouette around his legs aren't swamped. I revisited the Beast, still not in as much detail as the Knight but did make improvements and tested out different poses to make the Beast look more aggressive and intimidating. Lastly I revisited the storyboard to build more tension.

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Texturing Part 3 - Rivets

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Texturing Part 2 - Baking Normal Maps

For some reason the maps appeared on the hands despite the map being corrected and linked properly? The rest turned out well.

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Texturing Part 1 - High & Low Res Modelling for Normal Maps

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 3 Part 13 - Clean Up

I couldn't delete all my blendshapes as it stopped the cheek rig from working so the export layer stays.

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 3 Part 12 - Brow Movement

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 3 Part 11 - Adding a Blink

Toolkit 2: The Greatest Showman Motion Infographics (Updated)

Music: "Energy" from https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 3 Part 10 - Adding Extra Face Movement

Added rigs to nose, chin, cheeks and nostrils.

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 2 Part 9 - Cheek Thinning

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 2 Part 8 - Lateral Mouth Movement Part 2

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 2 Part 7 - Lateral Mouth Movement Part 1

Toolkit 2: Sculpting - Lesson 5

Today was the last sculpting session, it's been fun and I'm mostly pleased with my sculpture except for the hair - it looks more like dreadlocks than anime hair to me, I plan to work on this more before baking it. I'll fix the hair by putting more clay to fill the harsh gaps/deep lines also I need to make the fringe come away from the head so it's not stuck to it.

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 2 Part 1 - Adding Teeth and Tongue

Maya Tutorials: Jet Pack Jones Facial Rigging 1 Part 5 - Creating a Flexible Mouth Rig 3

Toolkit 2: Sculpting - Lesson 4

In today's session I sculpted a skullcap to work out the hair line and began to add depth and volume. I still have a lot more hair to add and smoothing out to do which should hopefully be done by the end of next week's session.