Basset Hound character

vr_sebas · October 29, 2019, 4:56am

Hi there.

I’ve been working on a new project to make a full character workflow approach.
Starting from the character concept: (by Trippel Trappel)

So I started blocking the shapes and sculpting them separately to end with something like this:

Then I used the remesh+boolean OpenVDB tool in the experimental branch to join the meshes and get a unique object to setup a retopology.

DogRetopo1

Then I keep going to model the teeth tongue, and jaw.

Now I can proced to rig, for this part I used the rigify wolf preset and adjusted it in edit mode:

Once rig is set, I can generate the rigify rig.

And this is what I got so far.
I set up the rig using automatic weights to get a quicker skinning.

The rig behaved nice and it was all nice, but with some little issues:

Now I’ll try to fix those issues as I keep polishing those weights and proceed with the character development, If you have any advice or critic please leave me a comment, I’ll
be soon uploading updates as I complete the project.

vr_sebas · October 29, 2019, 11:35pm

Today I was working on weights and fixing the positions of some bones to get good deformations, any other deformations I want to add in the future will be added on the path using shapekeys or something else.

A quick render to test it out:

Now that I’m done with the rig I’ll start texturing.

vr_sebas · November 1, 2019, 11:54pm

Today I was working on some basic colors, I was kind of trying to achieve a simple look, but I think I went to far with the mouth details haha.

I will try to keep adding details on the body as I go further with the texturing process.
I’m wondering if I should add hair or just sculpt multires some hair details.
Also I’ve just noticed that I forgot the nails.

Null_Dispatch · November 2, 2019, 11:09am

It’s turning out great dude! I vote for using hair particles. Look forward to seeing this develop. Cheers!

vr_sebas · November 2, 2019, 5:32pm

Thanks, yes particles would be great, but I’m going to need a lot for this!, and this kind of dog does not have such a long hair. But sure I’ll try

vr_sebas · November 6, 2019, 3:27am

Hi, today I messed up haha, I was trying to “save me” some time to copying the rear paw into the front paw, and as I was doing it in gimp I forgot to turn off the UV layout at the moment of exporting the texture and then I finished with a beautiful web around the dog.

I tried to apply some fixes subtracting the UVs and deleting the lines, and it turned ok and I was able to smudge the lines to restore the colors, unfortunately the hair details on textures was partially lost, so I had to re do most of the face and back.