Minimal Mike

Yet another personal projects (I sure do have a lot of those lately).

Here is Minimal Mike. I had this idea to make a head that i can animate as an info-graphic character to tell about minimal living, how to recycle, drive in traffic ect. basicly anything we can learn from. The head is inspired from a Lebara commercial and i might make some hands at some point.

I sculpted first in Nomad -> Export to maya for retop -> back into Nomad for some minor adjustments -> Back to Maya for Rigging, Skinning, UV, Blendshapes, Animation and Render -> Fusion for combining beauty with AO.

For the Rigging, i learned a lot from antCGI rigginginmaya tutorials in Youtube, where i used the ribbon rig for the tongue, strongly recommend the tutorial serie.

I spend most time setting up the rig and skinning.