Dominance War in 2 days, hmmmmm

More progress on Shinobou, got the facial rig pretty much finished. Took a lot of work, and lots of fiddling but it's at a standard I'm pretty happy with. It's not a fully complete rig, and certain aspects are missing, but seeing as the range of emotions is extremely  limited in the cinematic I think it will cope. For example its fairly tricky getting a convincing smile out of it, but it does frowns great.



If there's time later I intend to add animated displacement maps to the rig, particularly around the mouth eyes and forehead. I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about this, as separating out areas of wrinkle for each blend shape or bone position could suck up more time than I actually have, but watch this space.

A quick Zsketch done yesterday, I lost one due to tech problems so I'm still one behind, will do two one day and catch up. This one's based loosely on a concept by Kekai Kotaki.

Lastly Dominance War V starts in just over two days, this is the largest games art competition in the world and it would be amazing to take part. I would obviously never place in the competition but I want to enter and produce a finished character that I'm proud to enter.