Jameson Concept Almost Finished

Piero has just a few more tweaks to do to the character, and then some cleanup. Any other Crits?

Facial Morphs FINISHED!

I just finished fixing up the morphs and then hooking them up to the joysticks! It was a long process, but I think the results are fantastic. I will post some tests soon. Now, onto the body rig!

SHAZAM!

Justin is making his first official Blog Post.
...And the earth tilted slightly off its axis.

Salinger, your time is Up!

Piero Macgowan, a friend and excellent concept artist at Firaxis is getting Jameson's concept figured out. I photoshopped Peter and Jameson together to see how it feels. I had to shrink Jameson's head a little to make him work with Peter. What do you think?

Facial Morph Fixes

This is what I have left to do on Peter's face before I move to the body. I think I will be done sometime next week.

PinchCorner morphs - DONE
Sneer EyeLid Fix - DONE
Sneer Four directions - DONE
Low eye lid prog morphs - DONE
Mouth Move out / in - DONE
Upper lip inner spikes - DONE
Fix Out Smile Inner Lips - DONE
Fix Mid Smile Inner Lips - DONE
Fix In Smile Inner Lips - DONE
Fix Wide Inner Lips - DONE
Fix Out Frown Inner Lips - DONE
Fix Mid Frown Inner Lips - DONE
Fix In Frown Inner Lips - DONE
Better Upper Lip Curl Out - DONE
Better Upper Lip Curl In - DONE
Better Lower Lip Curl Out - DONE
Better Lower Lip Curl In - DONE
MouthFwd - DONE
Cheeks out - DONE
Inner brow creases fix - DONE

Brow Left Right Movement - DONE
3 Extreme Smile Morphs - DONE

TO BE DONE WITH RIGGING:
Eyeball morphs
Teeth Mover Bones
Nose bone and look-at
Fleshy eyelids

Facial Poses!

I asked Justin Thomas to take a shot at pushing the facial poses to their limits and this is what he came up with! Extremely nice results! I did some nicely lit renders to get an idea of what the SSS skin will look like when we start rendering animation. Also, I was thinking the eyebrows might be an issue because they have the sharp point on top. But now that I see these renders I think it adds a lot to him.

I have a bunch of morph target cleanup that I'm working on now, which should be finished this weekend. Then Sulz will be finished with the body so I'll start rigging and skinning.

Facial Joysticks Coming Along

I'm almost finished hooking all of the joysticks to the Morphs. I decided to replace the spline joysticks with low-poly sphere objects because they are easier to select quickly. I'm still in the process of replacing them all, as you can see. I quickly posed an angry face here for Dr. Sulz and I think it turned out really nicely. I feel like the rig has so much more control than my last joystick driven rig. Next - I'm going to finish hooking up these joysticks and then do a few missing morph targets. After that - on to the full body rig!

Oh, and John S. at Firaxis helped me with creating an eight-morph radial joystick for the mouth shapes. I asked him randomly and he created in 15 mins! Extremely helpful seeing that I hurt my brain trying to figure it out for hours the night before.