Sonic Movie Style Character Development - Shadow Day 001

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Shinjitsu84

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Published on December 6, 2023 2:01:19 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYydRI7ckfg

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Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)

Duration: 1:10:14

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Ok, this is going to be some crazy looking, horrid, cursed mess until we clear pass the morphs to Zbrush phase. This time around I am going to attempt to once again hijack a pre-rigged CC4 Avatar (Kevin) and transform him into a functional looking Shadow the Hedgehog. Just like with Bunnie Rabbot this will be my first attempt at morphing the CC4 Kevin model into something this non human like. If you dont wanna see these steps feel free to unfollow for a while but we got quite a few days of ugly to get through before it starts looking anything like the intended character. Todays session was just fiddling around with morph sliders. Next time doing actual work in Zbrush.

Again shout out to Frictory 213 on sketchfab for a solid ref to work based off of. I will start here with general proportions but then be reference back to shots from Sonic Movie 2 to get better refinements and facial features going oddly based off of Sonic himself instead because Shadow is barely seen in that movie and I am still not too keen on how they had him looking lol.

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

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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