Client: CMD Agency
End Client: Microsoft Xbox
About the Project
Provided by Client:
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Guidelines for the desired look/feel.
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Avatar personalities, genders, ethnicities
Objectives:
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Create a series of avatar samples that could be used for the online features of the Xbox game system.
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Animate each avatar doing simple gestures.
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In total there were 11 avatars and 80 gestured animations.
My Role:
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Texturing
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Lighting
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Animation cleanup (fixing things like arms moving through hips, feet not hitting the ground, etc)
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Render setup, presentation and output
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Final composites
Assisted with some of the clothing paints: Kalina Torino
Avatar Modeling & Animations: Donald Fergus
Software used: 3dsMax, Headus UV Layout, Photoshop
Approximate timeline: 3 weeks
Below are 4 avatar samples from the 11, and 4 animations out of the 80 generated or that 2-3 week span.