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[ThisIsHamburgler]

I must admit... Seeing a taru being "assembled" is disturbing... but pretty cool ^.^

-Ham :shock:

 

[Drewtaru]

cool cool

 

[Krisy]

i tihnk they look better w/ liberty spikes then having their hair down

 

[conquerer]

lol....

well.. i'm in the army... dont got a choice.. go AWOL for ffxi is crazy.. lmao

 

[elitemage]

amaizing

 

[Aristarc]

So...Antt, u ever gonna finish this project bud?

 

[Anttaru]

So...Antt, u ever gonna finish this project bud?

Yeah. Aside from other things FFXI does take up alot of my leasure. As for this, i have been working on blendshapes. That means i have been duplicating the head and sculpting it in ways of expression. Left and right eye lid function, left and right eyebrow function, left and right eyelid shut tight, Leftr and right eyes wide open, Jaw open, jaw twist left and right, nose snarl left and right, lip motions. I also put in the teeth and tounge.

I created extremely low poly body to be covered in the garments. I have exsperimented with the cloth and that i want to make a Garish Tunic and Silk Slacks, BLM JSE, and probably because it would look cool and it is easy to make a black Trench coat. Other armor is hard surfacing so i'm thinking just model that would leather joints or a chainmail if required.

I also put in the skeleton so now i can pose it. I still need to do something called painnting weights, meaning to solve problamatic deformations when the surfaces bend and flex, like making the thumb bend properly so it dosn't look odd when it moves from pose to pose.

When i can't think of anything else to do blendshape i'll move onto the next task which is texturing. i'll post some new exsposures soon. ('-')

 

[Aristarc]

Sweet!!

 

[Blabj]

Damn thats cool, I have C4D and the personal version of maya, but I wouldn't even attempt to make anything like that, it's pure insanity crossed with too much hard work :lol: I'm just too damn lazy lol.

It's probably been posted before or you've probably said something like "NO SUGGESTIONS!" but, I think it'd be cool to do vivi from FFIX

Anyways, thats really cool, I cant wait to see the 100% finished models, I know it's gonna look fantastic

 

[conquerer]

hmm.. anttaru... no more??

awww... i wanna see more updates.. ;D 8) 8) 8)

 

[Pasquale]

hey i just stumbled across this thread and I was wondering if it was every finished? So far what you have is pretty cool.

 

[Arctyrael]

Oh jeeze, adding to the thread Necro - I really am curious as well. Do not fall to the temptation of another unfinished project!

If it inspires you, ETSU I believe has just developed a distributed computing rendering cluster application that handles Maya ASCII files. I do hope you have finished the taru, I'd love to see the final work ^^

 

[Anttaru]

Here are some images i uploaded last. Just some blendshapes.

Eyes closed

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Shocked

This is a mixture of some blendshapes i have made. 'Left eyelid wide' & 'right eyelid wide'. 'Jaw Drop' i wanted to be as real as i can make it, so as the jaw opens, the shape around the face changes, little cheek bone appears and muscle around the temple area flexes. Not satisfied with how the open mouth looks, but the transition looks good in motion. (Kinda creepy too.)
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Sinister looking smile

-Smile left, Smile right... Each side raises the cheek like it's supose to.
-Snarl left, snarl right... for the nose
-Eye lids closed a little
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Smirking

Smile right and left, are cranked up a little bit. Turning one side up too much without turning up the other side looks very un-natural.

I have a total of 16 Blendshapes made so far, from eye brows to jaw twists. I am "Still" working to make more.

I also made the teeth and tounge, and have a 1280x1024 texture map for the head. I should narrow that down cause it would be overkill since i plan on batch rendering it with a wide screen. Not finished by the way.

I created a low poly body for the cloth i'll be using. It's make for things happening a little smoother.
(If i fail at using cloth i'll definatly resort to the old fashion way. That would leave me dissapointed in myself though. Animation wise it would mean more manual procedures for such secondary motions we see in cloth.)

Joints ... Not the kind you smoke. It's the skeleton that that i smooth bind to the polygonal mesh. The Rig is completed and the Tarutaru is pretty much ready to perform. Except it's still naked ; ;


Well that's it for now. I'll post more updates later. I found since i achieved some major goals in the game, i spend more leasure doing this. Tomorrow i'll start an intensive on cloth.

 

[Arctyrael]

Teh smirk! I want that smirk!

 

[Tsavi]

Wow! That is sweet Anttaru.

 

[hellstorm]

lol remind me of yoda from starwar "mm the force is strong in this one"
keep up good work