Hi there.. Minor update today. I've been retopologizing her raw ZBrush sculpt. Not done yet, maybe 80% done.
The result is her body features look smoother but less detailed....
2020-12-02 10:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Raina gets more swole in her new body.
EDIT: Further adjustments to traps / back
2020-12-01 04:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostTrying to get Storm working... If this works, the volume / mass will be preserved. This means an arm pressing against the chest the two masses will self-collide and smoosh together. &nb...
2020-11-30 07:43:24 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working on something... Currently waiting for a developer to respond to my message with some assistance. I even signed it with "Pretty please with sugar on top." How could he resist...
2020-11-29 07:15:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all. I hope all of my american friends here had a nice Thanksgiving day. I did.
The sim was going well, or so I thought.. I am on frame 5,139 or so of 7600 and the ski...
2020-11-27 12:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there...
So the sim is going on. The first couple of days were touch and go as I was trying to fix problems that were popping up. But it seems to be going pretty stable now. 2020-11-22 02:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
I've made a bunch of last minute tweaks and refinements.. And just now I hit the sim button; Simulating her skin. Hopefully it will go straight through without a hitch, b...
2020-11-18 08:38:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
This is not Raina at her largest... I have all of the muscles in place. I got a lot done today. Not ready to sim the skin yet... A few more details to iron out, but...
2020-11-16 08:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy!
The skin simulation is coming together. I haven't brought in the traps and lats for this test... But it looks super promising!
2020-11-15 21:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey there,
I'm pleased to say I'm done with her muscle sims. Time to shrink-wrap her skin over all of this!
2020-11-14 06:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Sorry I'm so quiet... I'm animating all of her flexes right now. More to follow!
2020-11-07 04:21:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
So I tried bringing these new-style pecs into Storm. It wasn't working out. I suspect it is because the user is too stupid to figure it out yet. I posted to their forum...
2020-10-30 13:14:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I may have mentioned that Storm had it's big update with the point deformer feature. I'm going to see if I can rig Raina's pecs using Storm instead of my normal cloth sim approach. I've...
2020-10-27 13:49:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! I've just simmed the 2nd muscle group, the pectoralus minor. I also re-modeled it from scratch to make it more realistic. Also back there you can see her Levator Scapulae...
2020-10-26 00:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostForehead wrinkles rigged. Don't know why her eyeliner turned white. Gotta fix that.
EDIT: Eyeliner fixed. Also eyebrows.
EDIT2: Eyela...
2020-10-21 01:27:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got all of her head animation transferred to the final model. She looks freaky right now because only her head is animated. I figure you can enjoy it as an early Halloween gift. ;)...
2020-10-20 18:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostIncluding eyes / eyelids. More to come! :)
2020-10-18 17:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostI am almost done cleaning up her facial animation. It's looking really good, better than fully hand-animated face stuff. As I mentioned earlier she was not tooled for performance captur...
2020-10-13 17:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Raina's face is now animated with the SynthEyes data. Pretty cool! She's going to need some manual clean up here and there. Over there too. But four minutes o...
2020-10-10 06:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostFace markers tracked in 2D. The blue markers are tracked in 3D. I now have to model a simple proxy head to project the face tracks into 3D.
2020-10-07 10:26:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Good news. The developer of Zign Track 2 gave me a refund! How cool was that? Unexpectedly pleasant.
I bought SynthEyes. From the attachment you can see...
2020-10-06 05:17:52 +0000 UTC View PostOh my goodness. I spent the entire night banging my head against the SynthEyes demo. It is incredibly complicated. I finally figured it out how to use it, just before I was ...
2020-10-03 23:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostRed-head Raina returns for more animated fun. Part 2 of 2.
Note this is an advanced posting, contact me with a private message if you want to arrange to get this when it's done or have ...
2020-10-01 03:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostI've been trying to record facial mocap on the same clip six times throughout the night. I altered the position of the markers, I hand-tracked the markers.. Nothing was working. I am ve...
2020-09-29 11:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I was having a heck of a time getting a clean key with the beads I bought... Today I bought some paint and hopefully this will help. Just have to wait for the paint to dry.
The or...
2020-09-28 16:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostLast night was a bust. Hours and hours manually tracking the markers in my compositor and ultimately the software didn't recognize the markers. I suspect my placement wasn't so good. &n...
2020-09-27 02:47:41 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy! I've got her main animation all done except for muscles, fingers which are done last, and facial animation. She's looking really good. I believe I'll try out this ...
2020-09-25 06:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post