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Description
It came a long way since last week! I completed the model, rigged it, and now it's ready to be posed. I am proud of how it looks too, I just need to rearrange the lights so it doesn't look like most of it is coming from below. I also added a background and uped its saturation so it'd be flat white. I set the render so it would pick up the caustics reflected off of the background.

Problems
- the fingers do not rotate conveniently slanted direction, in line with the contour of the round hand. Instead I need to play around with all 3 directions since their joint pivots are not configured that way, and I cannot find a way to change it.
- the expressions are nill. Only the mouth can move up and down, and there is not other variation yet. I know how to move the eyes, but I still need to get around to that. The eyebrow are modeled so they can move like real ones, but I haven't rigged them yet either, and I tried a new technique that I discovered in a tutorial and cannot get to work (setting joints on a curve path and connecting them to the eyebrows).
- ... a mesh binded to a joint skeleton takes A LONG TIME to paint weights on! It took about LONGER to do that than just modeling!! You'd think Kon would be a simple character to model and animate, but you realize his body needs as much points of articulation as a human since he can move as much as a human can!!

First image:

Bleach © , Shueisha, VIZ Media

Description
It came a long way since last week! I completed the model, rigged it, and now it's ready to be posed. I am proud of how it looks too, I just need to rearrange the lights so it doesn't look like most of it is coming from below. I also added a background and uped its saturation so it'd be flat white. I set the render so it would pick up the caustics reflected off of the background.

Problems
- the fingers do not rotate conveniently slanted direction, in line with the contour of the round hand. Instead I need to play around with all 3 directions since their joint pivots are not configured that way, and I cannot find a way to change it.
- the expressions are nill. Only the mouth can move up and down, and there is not other variation yet. I know how to move the eyes, but I still need to get around to that. The eyebrow are modeled so they can move like real ones, but I haven't rigged them yet either, and I tried a new technique that I discovered in a tutorial and cannot get to work (setting joints on a curve path and connecting them to the eyebrows).
- ... a mesh binded to a joint skeleton takes A LONG TIME to paint weights on! It took about LONGER to do that than just modeling!! You'd think Kon would be a simple character to model and animate, but you realize his body needs as much points of articulation as a human since he can move as much as a human can!!

First image:

Bleach © , Shueisha, VIZ Media