Any new progress Fierox?

And now, the long wait :P Animation takes forever.

Thx :) But no need to wait for that yet or its going to be quite a long wait i'm affraid.
Atm i'm roughly setting up the most important keyframes for Neytiri and Jake in all the scenes. When thats done ill put all the images of that behind each other to see if it flows right and tells the story. Basically it will be my storyboard.
Hope to have that done soon but i might need to create some rough backgrounds aswell and then it will take longer.
Also not sure ill show the storyboard right away tho, might ruin the surprise of the story :P and well its very WIP quality.
Although i would really appriciate your feedback on the scenes and especially on the story i also like to wait with the whole story till its done, hmmm have to think on that.
Oh and on top of that i was also struggling a bit getting the bow for Neytiri to work :( but its done now, image in Neytiri's thread :P

Well, we'll all just keep waiting then... :)

Will do Fierox! I wonder how you will tell the story (Not including using the storyboard) in your mini film..Would you narrate it, or place captions in the bottom?

No im not going to narrate it. My dutch/english dialect is pretty awful and my recorded voice sounds even worse :)
Hope i can sort out the voices and if not it will be subtitled. Either way its so far ahead im not going to worry about it yet :p

To make the models of Neytiri and Jake a bit more "alive" i added two more details that hopefully add a little extra during animation.
Their chests can now move/expand for breathing and pupil dilation is added.
Above a few settings, the middle one is the base (original).

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ox-d4iusya.jpg

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d4iusqr.jpg

:awesome:

I can't wait to see it in motion. :D Also I must say that the models look really good with dilated pupils, perfect for night time. :)

looks great. so the pupils will adjust on their own according to amount of light or you have to manually do that yourself? could we get a short video of it working? :awesome:

Thx and no its done manually, dont think pupils change that much anyway.
Hmmm not so sure about that actually :)
Great idea tho, i wonder if thats doable but also im not sure i want that.
I kinda plan to cheat a little with bigger pupils on emotional moments etc

They do change quite a lot - look at the 'bioluminescence of the night' part :)

Hey again,

Did a few more tweaks on the skin shader for Jake, more or less the same ones as i did on Neytiri earlier.
Also added different smile options (blends). I had made a blend for big smiles but now i can also do stuff like smirks etc.
Pretty happy with it myself, it looks a bit casual and not to perfect. Its still the hardest emote to get right tho :P
Let me know what you think?

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d4jnsc2.jpg

I think there's something odd going on, since the first thing that made me think of was a TF2 Ubercharge.

Jake 3D WIP
 

Looking great like always fierox :)

I think that's the lighting.

Very nice :D