Tracy Modeled to Rigged

This is the prototype of our Tracy model. We decided that she looked too old so we went back and made some modifications. 

This is the slightly remodeled Tracy. She is already looking younger.

These are Tracy's awesomely modeled shoes.

This is Tracy's final model. (despite a hairstyle change and pants)

Rigging the arms

Creating a forward kinematic and inverse kinematic arm rig switch

I finished with the arm controls, now starting on the head control

finally done with tracy's facial rig. just have to figure out an efficient way to rig the hair

this shows the capabilities of the rig

This is the final model of Tracy

This is the final poly Tracy model

This is the final rig of Tracy

Tracy Concept Art

Tracy Concept Art

This is the concept art for Jason's daughter. The character drawn in the concept is what we are using as reference for modeling, but we are going to make the 3D model character younger in appearance. (Around nine years old)

Jason Modeled to Rigged

Jason's face Geometry in X-ray View. This shows the amount of detail put into the face. Teeth, eyes, eyebrows, and a 'mouth sack' are visible.

Painting weights on Jason's face. Painting weights on a characters face is a delicate process that requires a lot of patience.

The image above is the rig for the legs and upper body. For the feet I made a reverse lock foot rig and for the spine I made it so where the rotation of one joint effects neighboring joints so the character will have natural movement in the spine.

The image above is of the main arm bones.

Above is an image of Jason's facial rig with only Controls. This facial rig was discarded later on because I learned more advanced techniques.

Above is an image of the inner workings of the facial rig. Visible in this image is a lattice deformer, several locators, many joints, a few inverse kinematic handles, and some NURBS curve controllers. 

This is the final rig of the main character. The only thing that will be changed later on will be the facial rig since I have learned some new techniques.

So I ran into this huge problem. The face wouldn't render out. I did some research and asked the Digital Tutors forums, but they couldn't provide me with a solution either. So I went into the scene and did some digging. It turned out that my base head's Drawing Override visibility was turned off. I turned it on and it then showed up in the render! But this threw another problem at me. Only the eyebrow deformers were working, not the forehead deformer. So I turned on the forehead base mesh and it showed up in the render, but with another head overlapping it. I concluded that the base heads that I got from the multiple facial deformers weren't communicating with each other. So basically.. I have to remake my facial rig. Fun.

I solved the problem. In the options when you make a wrap deformer you're given the option to make the object that is deforming the desired mesh to be rendered. All I needed to do was to go back and check the box.

This is the rig for the robo arm. I made several custom attributes for it, such as the spinning of the gears and the ability to move the poly shards on the forearm in all axis.

This is the final robo-poly arm, modeled and rigged!

This is the final Jason model

This is the final Robo Jason model

This is the final Jason rig

Game Company Intro

This is the our company intro for our video game.We decided to do a play on our name by incorporating a mugshot in it, and the first thing we thought of when we said concord was a bird so that's how that came around. The bird flying in is a silhouette of a bird animated in Maya with the background layered out, and the rain is an effect in AfterEffects... CONT>>

Enemy AI pathfinding A* Algorithm

We've been having AI difficulties so I started to research it and after awhile I came across The A* Algorithm which will help a lot in our AI path finding abilities.

A* Algorithm Path Finding example

A* uses a best first search and finds a least-cost path from a given initial node (start point) to a goal node (a waypoint or the player) out of one or more possible goals. As A* traverses the graph, it follows a path of the lowest expected total cost or distance, keeping a sorted priority queue of alternate path segments along the way.

A* Unity Package

A* Tutorials

Concept Art Main Character

Art by: Kristen

Game Builds

Build 02

This build was made to get the base knowledge of scripts, particles, animations, and navigation through unity.
We learned several things from this build. One thing that we learned was that the enemies would on occasion, flip the player high into the air. Also, our player's hand can go through walls when it shouldn't, our animations need to transition more smoothly, etc.

Here's the download link for the build

Movements: Standard move controls. W A S D (forward, left, down, and right) with the mouse for aiming, left click for shooting, and right click for punch.