Digital Creatures - Assignment 2: 3D Character Production

21/4/2025 - 26/5/2025
Week 8 - Week 13
Jia Ern Ng n12332208
KNB 217 Digital Creatures
3D Character Production
Assignment 2

INSTRUCTIONS

Task Description

Continuing your research and character creation work, you will take your Assignment 1 sculpted model to complete texturing, rigging, posing and rendering. You must reflect on your creative process by completing a production journal.

Task Instructions

Complete the development of a 3D character for use in an animated context using predefined production approaches and pipelines. appropriate.

Model requirements

Must be fully textured and fully rigged
All texture maps must be imported into Maya and assigned to appropriate materials using the correct colour channels.
The textures must be detailed and have high resolution with no blurry or stretched parts.

Rig requirements

Must utilise Human-IK skeleton.
The skeleton must be defined.
Must have working controls for eyes and jaw (optionally, may add more controls).
Must use at least 15 unique blend shapes for facial animation and lip-sync.
All blend shapes must be properly assigned to the mesh and work correctly.
The mesh must be skinned and skin weights painted correctly to allow the mesh to deform naturally when animated.
The jaw must be skinned.

Final render requirements

The character must be posed for a final beauty shot in a way that reflects its personality.
The beauty shot must be well-lit and have good composition.
The render must be high-resolution (at least 1080p)

Production journal requirements

Must continue from assignment 1
Must illustrate each stage of the character development process: from texturing to the final render
May include screenshots or videos with short commentary. At least 1 image per each production stage.
Must include references where appropriate in APA style. For example, if you reference a book, movie, or YouTube tutorial.

Charater Model from Assignment 1: