Week 9: Texturing Styxx

By now I had hoped to have my character textures, rigged and have a turntable rendered.

Unfortunately I'm still stuck on texturing. There have been some complications in creating a live bridge between MudBox and my Maya scene; some textures won't update correctly and so forth.

On the bright side, Ellie and I recorded the audio & filmed the reference footage for the animation!

She still needs to clean up the drums and add a bass guitar, but meanwhile I can use this draft to rough out the timing/movement of Styxx to the music! The mastering suite we recorded in was too dark to film anything effectively, so I had some spontaneous help from a film student (to which I am very grateful), in setting up portable lighting and front/side camera views on tripods. It took longer to set everything up than actually recording, but I'm happy with the results.

Here's some stills of recording in progress. It was fun. Next week I am pitching my animation and will be getting more collaborators on board.

See you next week!