These screens were captured from MED, and the polycount is 2,326. The mesh and skin are courtesy of Dan Silverman. I've asked him to tweak the skin a bit by adding some specific details to the two coats, so it will change a bit from what is pictured here. Comments are welcomed. As long as he's willing, I will continue to use Dan for all of my future character and vehicle modeling needs. It will assure consistency, plus I like his work.

As for the face...eyes will be independent entities controlled with the same code that turns the player's head to look at specifically flagged objects. The mouth will be hand animated in the classical way. I'm not a fan of 3D mouth movement. The lower jaw will be moved to synch with the speech.





I'm currently rigging him in fragMotion and will animate from there using mocap files from Truebones. I can get over 1000 motions for $99, and there are plenty to choose from for both interactive and non-interactive movement. Get some sample motion files here.

Truebones skeleton hierarchy:


Next up will be the femme fatale character, and I'll update this thread from time to time with new characters.

Just a question, but wouldn't it be suitable to give the character a less anonimous face? At the moment it's really very empty, as if it's a zombie. In Film Noirs facial expressions play a big role don't you think?

As for the character itself it looks very good, can you post a screenshot with the character in your levels?

Edit: oops sorry, I have to read better.

Cheers

The features/personality (eyes, eyebrows, mouth) will be added later as described in the first post. The skin tone is pale, but that's a style/design decision (toon but not too much so). The overall plan is to inject life into the eyes..something that is missing from 99.999% of games.

As for Noir and facial expressions...most of the time the characters are very stoic and self-centered. The characters in this game...esp this guy are very stoic and emotionless. If you've ever seen The Man Who Wasn't There...think of the way Billy Bob Thorton delivers his lines/monologues, and you'll have some idea.

Very Good. The model looks great and your using Dan Silverman is a good idea. Also, Thanks for the links.(Too bad these animations wont fit a Maya Character.)

Looking forward to seeing more updates.

The process of rigging is easy. The art of rigging is hard. In other words, my skills as an artist are dubious; thus I'm looking for a helping hand:

http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/730053/Main/715133/#Post730053

reminds me of batman TAS

always liked your black and white idea

Nice black-white effect OB
I'm really curious to see this project finished some day, well actually I hope it's in the nearby future For me it already looks like the game with the most pro look besides other games such as David's game and Buiy Buiy Rocket game form Nadestar. But I havn't played yours so it still could gain those other two

Cheers

Frazzle

Looking good. Good fps too for the 1600x.. resolution,

Cheers