Jing

Character Modeling and Animation

Time spent: 3 months

This is an individual character animation project which I explored the whole character animation pipeline from concept art to final keyframe animation. It is also the first time for me to learn Maya, ZBrush and Substance Painter.

When it comes to retypologize, I did it manually in Maya because I wanted to get the best practice.

For the clothes, I was mainly modifying the default materials in Substance Painter but later created the material for sword on my own.

For the animation, I started adding skeletons and controls from scratch and used nCloth to add a more vivid look to the cloak.

After this project, I got a better sense of the animation pipeline, which helps me optimize the animation sequences in Unreal Engine for other projects.

A woman in futuristic armor and clothing, arms extended to the sides, against a dark background.

Rigging & Animation

Keyrame Animation

Model

Rigging Demo

A woman character in a futuristic outfit with black, gray, and blue colors, standing with arms extended horizontally against a black background.

A digital character in futuristic armor stands with arms outstretched against a black background.

Side view of a female humanoid robot standing upright against a black background.

Futuristic humanoid robot with robotic limbs, standing with arms outstretched, illuminated by a faint blue light against a black background.

A humanoid robot resembling a woman with a white exterior, wearing a cape, with arms outstretched against a black background.

Character Turntable

Texture

A fantasy-style sword with a curved, dark blade accented with blue glow, and a dark handle.

A fantasy-style sword with a blue and black blade and a dark brown hilt.

Screenshot of graphic editing software layers, including rust texture, sharpen, gradient, edges, metal scratches, base metal, gem, fill layers, and layer groups.

Software Used

ZBrush

Adobe Substance Painter

Maya