The Gent Rig

A quick post, deformation testing is continuing on the Gent Rig. I'm performing some final tweaks on the Young Lady Rig, adding our custom floating eye setup, adding additional FK joint chains to control her pony tail and strands of hair.

Once I get feedback from James I can continue bug solving on the Gent rig, meanwhile here is some emotion tests with the Gent rig and our first inter character shot with the Gent and the Young Lady rigs:

As you can see more weight painting needs to be done on the Lady rig aswell as the Gent

Gent Modelling

Here is the Turnaround for the first of 2 characters that are my responsibility to model and rig, The Gent :




Low Poly wireframe, Smoothed Mesh, UV layout.



Soon I will post a full indepth article about the rigging of the Gent, the pitfalls, problems and solutions to the setup pipeline of the character. This post will come once the Gent has been signed off for use in animation after initial animator deformation testing by myself and James Daly. Meanwhile here are some poses taken during the rigging process, testing for deformations on the weight painting of the body.

Final Character Design : Gent

Here is my design work for the final design of the Gent, featuring turnarounds and character clothing concepts.

Additional character work

Aswell as hand drawn concepts and digital sculpts, we also ventured into model making for our character design pipeline. This included trying to attain a range of different styles in our maquettes. We came up with a wide range of character designs in the end, which can be seen below.

Red Dot = Antony Manley
Blue Dot = James Daly
Green Dot = Ben Coulbrook

Concept Work

This is the work I did in conjunction with James and Ben during our character design and style area of pre-production. Below is a sample of my design contributions.

-CHARACTER WORK-

-The Gentleman- The Young Lady


-The Old Hag

-Hag Zbrush Concept-

- The Cowboy

-Cowboy Zbrush Concept-

-Early environment sketches:


-Below is some very early work, back when our story was so much more grander and quite frankly ridiculous, these concepts came about during our early pre-production work in the summer. These include now redundant characters and ideas, aswell as characters that made it to the final version of the film.