Character Texturing

This week I found myself tackling something I usually try to avoid and actually enjoying it, UV mapping. First of all I applied a checker pattern to make sure I had minimal stretching etc for when I applied my final texture.
All of my textures where created in Photshop




Im really quite proud of how Biff has turned out. Considering this is the first character I have ever created.

'Music Room'

Using a few of the models I created previously I decided to put together this shot of a music room inside a house .

Character modelling

The modelling has began on "Burglar Biff" and I have really been enjoying it. I've been following the modelling techniques of Jason Edwards from Simply Maya. In particular the chef Ramsay tutorial videos have been particularly helpful.

Puppet finally in the scene

After spending all day Saturday in University, I managed to finish off the puppet rig and get him placed in the office scene. I added some basic textures to the scenery and i am actually quite happy with the result.
Next step is to duplicate the puppet and the desk at least 20 times to fill the office space.
Then I need to find out how to animate one puppet so that the rest of the puppets in the scene follow the same actions.

Guitar and amps

Here are my finished models of the bass guitar and the amplifiers, we are going to use these with the music video.

Music video progress

I have been working on the music video now with my 4 other group members for few weeks now and we have really progressed well. We have designed all of our characters. Modelled and finished modelling most of the characters, scenery, environment etc. I spent a good few days rigging the puppet character and finally set him in the scene ready for animating at the weekend. We are currently at the stage of rigging the next 5 characters for animation and putting the band members all in one scene and attaching them to there instruments.

This is Mike, the bass guitarist i've been modelling

The finished model of the (corporate) puppet

Final reference design in Illustrator.

Concept art