This was an experiment using assets from some other concept art. Could we turn people who looked like that into a useable rig? Aaaaannd...
- Q: How does it look trying this thing where I redraw faces to fit head shapes?
- A: Looks fine. Redrawing the whole face each time is the dumb, brute-force approach. But it gives me the most control to just make it look good. A couple years ago, I took at least two stabs at a more modular approach where the eyes/nose/mouth were separated out and recombined, but it looked like ass each time.
- Q: How much of a pain would it be to do that?
- A: Not a pain at all for 4 faces x 2 heads = 8! :D Which tells me very little about how much of a pain it would be for 40 faces x 6 heads x 15 expressions = 3600.
- Q: What about hair and hats?
- A: Uhhh I don't know, I wasn't thinking about that here, I just used the concept art.
- Q: Haha what if everybody had to be wearing a hat all the time and the hairstyles didn't even have real tops??
- Q: So can I make different body builds too? Do the heads look okay on different size bodies?
- A: Yeah it's fine and we should definitely do that.
- Q: Doesn't that mean redrawing every outfit though?
- A: Ehh I already did that with Wildermyth and I regret nothing. Plus we're probably gonna pull some tricks were a.) arms are nonexistent and hands only appear as circles when they're holding something, and b.) practically no customization of legs. So it's way easier.
- Q: Yeah and um facial hair?
- A: That's going to require a Plan. I look forward to someone coming up with a simple, ingenious, easy-to-implement Plan for facial hair that looks fantastic.
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