Making Character In Vroid

Working on the facial animation with the shape editor.

Opacity map is probably my favourite part of this project.

Opacity map shows more detail of the character.

I roughly know how the opacity maps work from the previous experiments, but I am not sure about the details, so I change the level of the shading.

Motion capture doesn’t capture the finger movement, so I need to manually animate the finger.

I quickly model a wand and make it parent to the wrist, but as the first image, the way of holding the wand is not the way I want, so I draw myself an image to help.

Here is the work in progress of set the fingers at the correct position.

After that, since the character model is not completely the same with the motion capture actor, so the movement of the arms and wrists are needed to adjust too.

Since the model and the pipeline are surely working, I go back to Vroid to model the character even further. Working on the texture of the face.

At least it works this time, although I have been restarting so many times.

This time I do nothing to the model. As soon as I import the model to Maya and I assign the skeleton to human IK, then I send the scene immediately to MotionBuilder.

So here I am with another restart.

The skeletons are working, so I send the whole scene to MotionBuilder, but the error comes up.

The mesh is not entirely sent to MotionBuilder. The error message indicates that the mesh has history on, so it can not be sent.

 I think the reason is that I combine and rename all of the polygons (since there are too many unnamed polygons). The combination creates history, but if I delete history, the skeleton would be not working.