Sonic Movie Style Character Development - Shadow Day 002
24Ok, 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 taking Kevadow (lol) into Zbrush for more fine tuned refinements on trying to morph the human pre-rigged face to match up to the cartoony head of the hedgehog reference model. Is the most difficult and and can make or break the result depending on how well you alight up the shapes. If the process starts to take too long I may back track and try my luck with Zwrap instead but the smoothness of the reference sonic model and some of its forms are not idea compared to whats see on the mood board from Sonic Movie 2.
Again shout out to Frictory 213 on sketchfab for a solid ref to work based off of.
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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