Minor Project - Mother Rigged & The 'Happy' Family

The mum is pretty much finished, there are still some skinning issues with the dress but I will iron those out and hopefully it will all work nicely. I got some advice from Alan on how to tackle it which involved creating a duplicate mesh and using rivets to control the main mesh.

I couldn't resist putting the family together, so I quickly put them all in a scene and posed them for a group photo. While doing this I noticed that two of the boys buttons weren't working correctly, they had some how flipped, so I will be investigating that as well as polishing the mothers dress.

Minor Project - Mother Model & UV's

The mother is now modelled and had her uv's laid out, next I will copy the rig from the dad and get onto skinning.

Minor Project - Dad Textures

The Dad is pretty much where he needs to be so I will now move onto getting the Mother done and then it is time to tackle the bed.

Minor Project - Dad Rigging #1

The Dad is rigged, I will be exporting the rig so I can reuse it for the mother when she is modelled. Next up I'll get him skinned and then some textures painted for him.

Minor Project - Dad Model & UV's

The Dad is modelled and has his UV's laid out ready for skinning! Soon the boy will have a "loving" family!

Minor Project - Boy Textures #01

These are the current textures for the boy, he is currently missing his buttons because I couldn't remember how to attach them to the rig, so that will be a question for Alan. I can now move onto the parents, the boy will need some additional face shapes when it comes to lip syncing as I want the transition between shapes to be smooth at points.

Minor Project - Boy Face Textures #01

Today I worked on getting some face shapes done for the boy, I decided to create them in Illustrator as the smooth vector lines were something I wanted to achieve. There is still stuff to clean up and I need to create all of the Phonemes but it is really exciting seeing him come to life!