[Character] The "Bear Clan" character returns!

[Andrige]

I could easily just polish the character as he was now with proper weighting and even starting on custom animations, but since the ears are folding over themselves like wet rags, head sunken into the body, constantly leaning slightly forward, it would be a baaaaad decision to make. Also, the rabbit animations hardly does the character justice, he looks like a stiff twig.

[Pickypurpoison]

Take your time, make him a good one!:)

[LORD DANNY NL]

I could easily just polish the character as he was now with proper weighting and even starting on custom animations, but since the ears are folding over themselves like wet rags, head sunken into the body, constantly leaning slightly forward, it would be a baaaaad decision to make. Also, the rabbit animations hardly does the character justice, he looks like a stiff twig.

How is it going now? I'm really really looking forward for this (:

[akazi]

I could easily just polish the character as he was now with proper weighting and even starting on custom animations, but since the ears are folding over themselves like wet rags, head sunken into the body, constantly leaning slightly forward, it would be a baaaaad decision to make. Also, the rabbit animations hardly does the character justice, he looks like a stiff twig.

How is it going now? I'm really really looking forward for this (:

Don't think he is working on it anymore, but he did release the model and stuff if anyone else wanted to work on him some.

[Andrige]

Yes, that's unfortunately the case.

It's been too tricky to figure out and I have more obligations and projects that take higher priority that I can make actual progress on. Once I get spare time in the sense I feel like I can do whatever I want with it, I'll pick this up again.

[iDubbbz]

Hey, Andrige. I love the idea of a bear character. Do you mind if I make a video showcasing what you've made so far?

- I will of course give you credit

[droog]

Hopefully the Character will be finished anytime. Sooo amazing..
Really fantastic concept art as well.

[Andrige]

Hey, Andrige. I love the idea of a bear character. Do you mind if I make a video showcasing what you've made so far?

- I will of course give you credit

Sure! But please say it does not look as intended at this point. Rushed skinweighting will make it look thin, skeleton not configured properly will cause the ears to fold in over themselves and so on...

[Anton]

So I'm thinking I might put this character into the Community Content Browser, but I wanted to check with you first, since it's not "finished". I saw some of the videos, and it looks like it's close, and at least playable, but I understand it's not what you had in mind.

[Andrige]

That's cool, but it's really not presentable enough for me to agree on right now. The current skinweighting makes it look too unfinished and anorexic. I'll see if I can get some time over to do at the very least a decent looking skinweight, and I'll contact you then.

[Anton]

That's cool, but it's really not presentable enough for me to agree on right now. The current skinweighting makes it look too unfinished and anorexic. I'll see if I can get some time over to do at the very least a decent looking skinweight, and I'll contact you then.

That's why I was checking. I'll hold off until you are ready.

[Andrige]

Thanks for doing that check Anton, appreciate it.

And as always, if someone feels like they're Blender gurus/gods that thinks they can take on anything... there's a challenge right here...

[Andrige]

So, for those who don't follow Wolfire's twitter, I saw that David was working on adding in joint scaling into the engine. So I asked him if that would help me and my model.

Long story short, David graciously took it on himself to make a good rig for me! I didn't ask, so you can imagine my surprise! So except a few issues with IK-location (which I had to edit in the aschar.as-file) and re-learning Blender all over, I'm steaming ahead on making new animations and some much needed polish to the diffuse texture (especially with the tinting which apparently is working now).

So the character is definitely - after a VERY long time - going to look and move as I have always intended. David even posted comparison images of the current races, and then for comparison did one with the bear.

I'll keep you posted!

New running animation in action!

P.S. And if you want to stay posted on my pet-project Mystling (which I have sunk so many hours on coding the prototype), I urge you to maybe take a look at the Facebook page or maybe skip right ahead to the development journal.

[akazi]

Yeah! That was very nice of David to do, very happy for you.

[Endoperez]

Whoa, thanks for mentioning the Wolfire twitter. There's lots and lots of stuff happening in there.