Skin and rigg trouble! Oh boy.

Unfortunately I am having some trouble, for some unknown reason, the clavicle's (shoulders)keep popping up of their own accord. Not good, because it does ugly things with my arm skinning. At this point I should throw out the skeleton and start from scratch lest It grieves me more later!

Skin and Rig of biped

The screen capture here depicts my character with an edit envelope highlighted, this is the area where the related bone affects the mesh. The importance of getting this procedure right, is so the character will animate without stretching the mesh in a horrible way. Therefore when I work on my animations, I can be happy because I'd done this right! Each step is important and needs attention.

The Merc from UT

This is the Mercinary that I hijacked, duplicating the xscale so that it would fit the animation cycles. Worked well.

Face 2

This a an Image sourced from the web, I am using him as a reference for my second face, it is nearly ready, just a few touches and tweeks and I'll post it. First I need to try it for fit, and make any adjustments. Though it is looking really good.

Playable test in UT2004 (without texture)

So this is my mesh inside Unreal Tournament, it does not have my texture on it here.
As I said it is a test to see if I could import it, and considering that this step alone can be problematic, It is nice to have it work. I still need to spend time on my textures and then import those into Unreal Tournament where it can be applied to the Mesh. So Many steps! But never the less this is good, and indicates where adjustments may need to be made with the skinning of my model, so as we do our custom animations it will look right. Also we have use of all the existing animations, in my case here from 'human male a', whom I hijacked.

Render. No armour.

Face Texture

Character eye

I painted my character eye seperately from the face , then integrated that after. I will post the full face soon after I have tested and tweeked it.

Behind the scenes development of Stranglehold

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24192.html

Animatic DE107's

This is my animatic. (Animated story boards) With edited text.

Animatic.. DE107's Hu-Ahh!!

Hand Drawn character sketches were imported into 'after effects.'This is useful to help pace out the timing of the story in relation to the machinima.
The animatic is a simple representation of how the story will play out, though it has only simple motion and cut scenes, it vastly aids the story telling process, and conveys the story to others effectively.
This is a means to an end, part of a process rather than something final.

Body UVW Template

This is the body of the model, symmetry was used in creation of my 3d mesh so there is two legs arms and feet laid over, so there is one that needs to be painted (great time saver.)

Face UVW Template

So This is cylindrical unwrap for my models head. Basically it is like a peel away, it looks tidy so it should be nice to work with in photo shop, where I will paint the face probably. Otherwise I could try using a photo of a friend and see if that works. I think that I will try both because I have two characters using the same model. they will be clothed identically in their uniforms but have different complexions/appearance.