Sonic Movie Character Development - Shadow Day 007

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Shinjitsu84

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Published on December 18, 2023 3:10:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrNOf7Lxds

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Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)

Duration: 4:42:42

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Before diving deep into expressions editing I thought it was most important to figure out the rest of the parts needed to make Shadow's silhouette look and feel more like shadow. So todays session is mostly creating all the additional appendages and parts we will need to add to this CC4 rig in order for it to be better transformed into Shadow. Completed the base mesh for his spines, ears, and tail as well as added some placeholder shoes. Probably going to UV these and run them through a very crude texture pass before I start doing expressions stuff. I will also likely add some temporary gloves too while I think about how I want to model the real deal assets.

Again shout out to Frictory 213 and MJ lock on sketchfab for a solid ref to work based off of and a temporary pair of Shadow air shoes.

This ref model can be found here for those interested.
https://sketchfab.com/nicolascorrea0907

Shadows temp air shoes model:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/shadow-the-hedgehog-fa56e684fbaf4267b384da61684d2415

I will not be using either of these nor parts of them in the final construction, just using for scale refs and placeholder art for now.

If you are a CC4 user you may wanna follow this whole process just to keep up with some success stories, missteps and backtracks. There will be plenty of mistakes made I assure you, but the point is taking advantage of these pre-rigged humanoids, putting your own new bones and appendages on them and still retaining CC4s built in facial rigging if you are like me, a character modeler/texturer with no animation chops whatsoever. Come along for the journey, this mess is finna be wild!

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