Nell the Narcoleptic 2

The “brave” souls of the SP E.O.D progress shot.

Woohoo!  Bomb guy 1 and 2 (which are the same essentially but one is scaled smaller) are rigged and ready for action!  Significant milestone: no more rigging for the rest of the project, woot!

Bum gettin’ rendered

Scene07_Shot02 WIP from Chilliboom Ltd on Vimeo.

Agent looking his best for his pamphlet promo. This will sure bring in people needing a job in one day!

Agent’s expression sheet.  In the 3d character we had to lose the moustache as it was getting a bit tricky to work in conjunction with all the blend shapes and squish deformers.

Fatty’s face and body rigging is complete, w00t!  

He has 29 blendshapes AND squish controls, so he’ll be the 3rd most organic/expressive character after Nell and Agent.

Quick playblast to check out Agent’s new texturing. Eyelids and eyebrows still coming.

Animation by Chris Whyte.

Agent’s face skin map

Fatty’s pants

Fatty Facial Upgrade - loopy goodness.  His body is rigged, and we’re about 1/2 through the face setup. (He’ll have a less comprehensive blendshape set than Nell as he’s in far fewer shots and goes through less facial variations).

Nell has 45 separate facial blendshapes.

Our 3d Short: Introducing Nell the Narcoleptic, which played in the New Zealand Film Festival 2010.

We have a dedicated site for this prequel at www.nellthenarcoleptic.com if you’d like to know more.