Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Sprint #3 Delivery

 For Sprint #3, I created IK/FK Switch to allow freedom of choice for animation purposes and an ROM of the more polished skin weighting of Zinta with a slight change where I added a joint controller to allow baked scaling for the purpose of baking down the animation to the skeleton and importing into Unreal Engine and remapped existing scale to the new root controller bone. Next pass will be further polish on the main body animation.



Here are the results inside Unreal Engine.






Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Sprint #2 Delivery

For Sprint #2, I developed a skeleton for Zinta along with a control rig for keyframe animation. Currently it moves with IK for the legs and FK for the arms. For the next pass, I will include an IK/FK switch for freedom of choice and will allow me to swap between them when she's floating in the sky to when she lands. Additional functionality to the hair will be made by next sprint.


Here is an ROM of the current iteration of the rig:





Final Delivery

 For the final delivery, I connected Zinta's facial blend shapes to a set of controllers to control the expressions, the eyelids, eyebro...