So I finished most of the rigging and decided to celebrate with a pretty render. Check out the paint weights going to crap in the armpit.


Paint weights Version 1:
When a problem comes along, you must WIP it, WIP it good.
Just posing the little guy I noticed problems with geometry inside the head sticking through an ear (conveniently framed out of shot), the tail twists awkwardly in extremes as well as the arms not being brilliant, armpits fixed.

Because I had a heap of custom controls, joints and influences added ontop of the set up machine- I had to reskin and start paint weights from scratch. Need to fix armour bending on legs.

Also added noise to the texture, changed armour from blue to grey, through a normal map on for some rivets. Also changed material to blinn, looks great on armour but like wrapped cheese on the ears. Terrible.