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SLAY THE STARS

Character Modeling | Rigging & Animation | NPR Shaders

Fig 1: SLAY THE STARS

This piece depicts what can only be described as a cosmic drag queen, commissioned by Orchid Eight as a shirt, hoodie, and poster design for their 2024 Pride Month Event. Animating her wasn't exactly mandatory, as the shirt, poster, and hoodie all depict a static image -- but I had tons of fun making it. :)

 

 

Breakdown

The workflow behind this piece involved sculpting and re-topologizing the base-mesh by hand, and likewise modeling clothes around her; after transferring the high-poly mesh's normals to the low-poly mesh, the low-poly mesh could be rigged, weight-painted, and posed to slay.

Unlike much of my other work, only a handful of elements were herein procedural: her spiral were produced by projecting a straight line onto the base-mesh in spiraling directions, and her horn-like hair, as well as the fluffy bits in her outfit, were all done with clever manipulation of Bezier curves.

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