Projects - (19/07/25)

You hear the sound of a door creaking, you turn around and...

I'm back! Sooner than I expected lol. I just wanted to share some small projects I made a varying amount of time ago (both finished and not), my plans for said projects, and something I may or may not have learned from them. It'll be a bit hard to find them again since the computer I'm currently writing this on is my backup computer (because my main one's motherboard got fried after an incident with a precariosly place water bottle lmao), so I'll be updating this post if/when I find more stuff to show off.

Leo pulls out a briefcase out of thin air and starts rummaging through it...

Ah! Here it is! My first attempt at rigging!

What a beauty, eh? Well, it's not bad for my first time! (Btw the image I used as a model is from the Ash Boat asset pack. And a huge shoutout needs to go to Xianggu Studios and the project director for making these incredible assets free to use!)

This project (and my other rigs too), are divided into a few different phases:

1. The Cutout phase:

   This phase is cutting the relevant foreground elements (in this case, the wolf) out from the full image.

2. The Shape phase:

   Where I use a the cutout of the image and mark out different regions for each part of the rig (Like the fingers, the palm, the arm, etc.) by making closed shapes with a lot of different points

3. The Bone/Weights phase:

   WHere I construct the skeleton using several diffrent bones and position them to roughly align with the shapes I made in the last phase and define how much each bone will influence each point of each shape.

4. The animation phase:

   A.K.A.: The part where I place diffrent keyframes and mess with stuff like position, rotation, scale, skew, etc. until something I like comes out.

Well, that's cool and all. But have you made something... better than this?

That's kinda rude, but yes, I have! Look at this! (Btw this character is Eyjafjalla from Arknights)

Now this is what I'm talking about! The cloth/wind/hair physics were SO hard to get right (i just kinda went off of vibes lol), but I think I did a pretty good job with this!

Also, to be honest... I may or may not have been starying at this gif for a while after I finished it. I mean... look! It feels kinda dreamlike?

Well, anyway. If you weren't able to notice, there are some parts (like the hair) that obscure the background, and since I only have the .png image (which famously doesn't have layers), I just had to pick two of the extreme colors (light pink/dark blue) that appear there and use a gradient to cover the missing parts of the background as a last resort. (I know that it doesn't look that good but it's better than nothing!)

So... do you have anything else to show off?

As of now (19/07/25), I don't. I still have to look for more stuff, so look forward to my next update! on this very post! I'll see you (hopefully) soon!

- Leo