This week I mainly did modelling, and the software I used were Maya, Zbrush and Marvelous Designer.

Firstly, sculpting the high poly model of the head in Zbrush:

After that, I used a plug-in for topo in Maya, ZiRail, to make the topology of the head.

At the same time, I also topological the body. The hand is a free model downloaded from Sketchfab. Finally, all the parts are combined into one through ZiRail.

I also made hair in ZB. In order to be more cartoonish, I made the hair as a whole. And use the ZRemesher in ZB for a simple topology.

Add the details of facial features, eyebrows, eyes, eyelashes, teeth and tongue in Maya, because they are all cartoon looks, these can be easily made in Maya.

I also made a crown using polygon modelling.

Then, exhibit UV in Maya, and show some small accessories of the face to the same UV, which can save space.

Since term3, I have tried to transfer the traditional animation process to a real-time rendering engine, such as Unreal Engine4. During the summer vacation, I found a Technical Artist internship. I think I will combine some of the knowledge I learned during the internship to make FMP.

The goal of my FMP is to make an animation clip in UE, including rendering and other work done in UE. This week I mainly designed the character. Here is my character design:

Concept: The little prince of the elven world came to the modern world because of playfulness and accident, so he changed into modern clothes and explored adventures in this unknown world. He has the appearance of a child, has a naughty personality, and he is lively and active, likes to be cool, and is a bit reckless.

Clip design: The little prince violated traffic rules on the road and was chased by a police car, so he ran over various obstacles on the street, and finally used magic dodge to avoid when he was about to be hit by a car.

Part of the character design comes from the little prince, which is one of my favourite works. It can be seen that the scarf comes from the character of the little prince.