Hanna the little witch
There is more to this forest than friendly fauns. Earlier you had the opportunity to meet Henna the faunette. Here is her best friend Hanna the little witch.
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I had this idea a long time ago that I wanted to make an animated series. It was a story of two very different girls who became friends. I was reminded of it by this great post by Fumansiu, since it features a girl and antlers.
I was going to call it Henna and Hanna, but since 3dmodelleing (and especially animation and rigging) is enormously timeconsuming I am still not finished with even the basic storyboards. I do however have rigged models of both of the main characters.
This one is Hanna, a small human witch who spent most of her time gathering herbs in the forest. Thats where she meets Henna
I modelled several versions of her : smiling lifting eyebrows puffing her cheeks etc and then i set about making a facial rig for her. you can see the control layer here
and here, These little controls are the ones an animator would drag around to create the animation
it makes it much less complicated to animate when you have these controls. underneath is a bewildering setup of bones and morphtargets so it is really nice to be able to completely ignore that part and just animate.
I have also made a small animation. nothing big just checking if everything works. I might make a longer version later on
Everything is made from scratch by me both modelling , rigging animation and render setup.
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Im EvilHippie, a compulsive creative and jack o' trades. if you want to know more about me, check out my introduction post here
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Great work on the animation! You're very talented with the digital artwork. I really like that you show it in progress in the post. Keep it up, and keep sharing your art with us on Steemit!
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Nice character design for Hanna!
This sounds like a promising/interesting story,
I will wait for further updates!
Now that you have reminded me,
I'm always forgetting to group the objects properly,
no wonder that I'm often lost in my own creations.
How did you create the hair?
Did you use planes + textures on them?
Thanks. I actually used a normal hair particle system. I just set the shape to be very thick, the weight to be small and the stiffness to be fairly high. In my experience thats by far the easiest way to achieve semirealistic movement. also there are quite few hairs so most of them are interpolated children. That means less calculations for the simulation and much better performance.