Blendshapes

Ok, don't mean to keep anyone waiting, so here is a screenshot of the final blendshapes on the smoothed head. Isn't it like MAGIC!?!?

So now I'm off to skin him and paint weights and color him in. Wish me luck!

Modelling

At the moment I'm working on a CG lipsync project to add onto my showreel to boost my opportunities in becoming a character animator.

Here is 1 of 2 characters, a guy named Steve. It will all make sense as I keep posting!
This is the transition from original sketch concepts to the final model:

I had a lot of fun drawing the face expressions that I thought this person should be doing. It's alien and a real thrill.



Then I made a SuperSculpey model to feel the shapes that I want to translate from drawing onto CG:





and drew topologies over the top till I found one I thought I could work with:


And here is the final product.
I'd like it more cartoony and chunky, but I tend to lean towards realism. Still, I'm quite happy to work with this for this animation:

I would like to take this opportunity to Thank Uli for letting me use his resources !!!