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Ivy (Deadlock) enhanced rig

Here it is: the Ivy rig I've been working on for the past 2-3 weeks now, which is also the very first rig I've made in Blender (already made 1 or 2 in Maya in the past).

2025-11-02 16:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Ivy needs a hug

I'll make it public next week since there's the HOGM making-of I'll publish tomorrow

Ivy rig anim test 2 (Polish)

Polish done.

Ngl, I'm kinda temped to drawover some tears in 2D and post it.

Ivy rig anim test 2 (Block +)

An extra anim test to do some last checks/tweaks.
It's simpler and shorter than the last one so I won't be publishing it on Youtube, but I'll still spline it (maybe polish it).

Rigging wip (Shader rework)

Quick demo of the shader rework. Hand painted on top of the normal maps with brush strokes.

Rigging wip (Face rig test 3)

sad goober. 😟

Also reworked the shaders. Gonna post about it later.

Shots I did for "Team Neighborhood Episode 5"

Remember the "Secret Gmod Project" I mentioned 2 years ago? It was part of this collaborative project. Sorry for the wait.

Ivy rig anim (face cam)

Just a bonus content with the camera being constrained to Ivy's head.

Ivy rig test

Rigging wip (Anim test Spline wip)

Body spline done. Only facials and dynamics left.

Rigging wip (Anim test Block +)

Time to put this baby to the ultimate test.

It's just for rig testing so I won't be rendering it with lighting, only splining and polishing the anim to see what to fix (in term of weight pa...

Rigging wip (Face rig test 2)

More facial tests after doing some weight clean up.

Rigging wip (Face rig test)

My very first face rig in Blender.

Far from perfect (weight paints need some polish/fixing) but manageable for subtle acting with a pose library.

Rigging wip (Eye system test)

Eye system seems fully operational

Rigging wip (Body stress test)

I've taken upon the daunting task of learning character rigging in Blender (with Rigify).
Body should be mostly done. Facials are left.

Abrams Blender Short (bonus content 2)

Abrams' "face capture".
I had to do a lot of cheating to make him look good in the final camera.

Abrams Blender Short (bonus content 1)

Full view of the animation.

Dynamo lacks movement because the model is not rigged (and not out of lazyness).

Abrams Blender Short (FINAL)

I think it's done. Only subtitles left and double checking for mistakes before making public.

Video uploading issues

There seems to be some bug with the video getting removed after a certain time period, so sorry about the last post getting deleted and reposted. 🙏

Abrams Blender Short (Raw beauty pass + outro rough + audio edit)

Raw beauty pass rendered in Eevee (3h total render time). Not the final look (there's still a bit of work to be done in compositing).
Comes with rough anim for the outro/credits doodles (just li...

Abrams Blender Short (Spline/Polish pass 2)

Ok, I think it's ready for render.
Just finished addressing the anim notes people had, along with adding cloth sim, mild cam mvt, and Dynamo passing by.

Abrams Blender Short (Spline/Polish)

Alright, I think I'm done with the spline/polish. Even tried out a smoke effect with geo nodes (originally made by hisanimations).

All that's left are physics on the coat and render (unless...

Abrams Blender Short (Block 2)

I initially wanted to make a TF2 short in order to continue learning Blender but I stumbled across this rig for Abrams' most finalized model from Deadlock and I knew I had to make something with it...

They had moxie!

Finished 2D project

2D short (clean+colo) - Timelaps

Timelaps of clean up and colo combined, at 2000% speed.

Total time: 27 hours (23h for clean up, 4h for color, split between 8 days)

Music:
US3 - Hand On The Torch (UK - 1993)...

2D short (clean+colo)

Final clean line with color. Only step left is background and compositing (with maybe micro readjustments).

2D short (tiedown) - Timelaps

Timelaps of the tiedown process, at 2000% speed. At least this time it's the full process.

Total time: 32 hours (split between 11 days).
Software used: TVPaint 11.5 Pro

Music:
T...

2D short (tiedown)

This is the tiedown phase, which consists on refining/defining details omitted during rough, in order to prepare for clean-up. Hands were difficult, but ironically enough wings were easier here tha...

2D short (rough) - Timelaps

Timelaps of half of the rough process, at 2000% speed.
Unfortunately I didn't manage to record the first half with the body, so here's the other one with the details. Tiedown's timelaps should b...

New 2D short (rough)

Started a new 2D short as a small refresher ad as a mean to properly learn compositing in DaVinci resolve.
This is the rough phase. It will be followed by tiedown, clean up, colo, shadows (maybe...