Year: 2017

Tunnel segments have been reworked so that the extruded lip is a lot smoother. All of them have been imported into substance painter and are now a blank canvas ready to be painted.

To rig my character I followed these tutorials:

Rigging was quite a challange as the model in the tutorial that I was learning from is a lot more simpler than mine, therefore I ran into a lot more problems than the tutorial did. Because of this it took me much longer that the length of the videos to complete as I had to keep stopping to figure out what I had done wrong when it didnt work. Overal I think that I have rigged the character pretty successfully. It is not perfect but for the purposes of this the quality will suffice. There will be a few things that I will need to go back and edit as some of the joints are not as seamless as I would like when you move them and I had a little trouble with ‘Weight Painting’ the models parts to its counterpart bones.

Before texturing and animating the character I had to UV unwrap my character. This was particularly hard as despite the character being an ultra low poly character, the smart UV project did not work so I had to manually unwrap the character by marking seams over the model. In particular, the hair and skirt were difficult to unwrap.

I then began the process of texturing the character, this may not be the final texture of the model, I will continue to work on it adding more detail to the character however it gives more of an idea what the end result will look like if I rig the character fully textured.

Working in Blender I had to think about the face normals and make sure that they were all facing the right way so that when it came to texture painting, I would paint on the right sides. You can see the direction of the normals by looking at the blue lines protruding from the faces.

I also worked on creating a ‘lip’ on the left-hand side of each of the tube sections, this will help to connect them together and make the painted textures flow more seamlessly.

Here is my most recent attempt at modeling my character in Blender. I have gone with an extremely low polygon model of a young girl, as I think the idea of a child will make the user feel more sympathy for the character and want to escape the underground. However, I have gone with the low poly style as the character herself will not have a great deal of backstory or narrative so does not require a great deal of detail in her physical form. I need to develop the face a little further as although her face will not be visible for her side view, therefore will not require any animation, it still needs a something else to it to make her look more characterized. After that I need to proceed with animating the character using Blenders rig to create her walk cycle.