Happy holidays! Here is my personal animated Christmas card I made in December. I hope you had a wonderful holiday and have a great 2023 ahead!
I've been learning blender for a few months and this is the first time I modeled, rigged, and animated a character with Blender. The learning curve has been quite steep but I really enjoyed it!
I've been learning blender for a few months and this is the first time I modeled, rigged, and animated a character with Blender. The learning curve has been quite steep but I really enjoyed it!
I made this animation into AR christmas card using sparkAR.
some close up still images..:)
As always, I started with multiple versions of the sketch. My initial idea was Santa riding on a normal but bear-ish 4-legged reindeer.
And after a couple of sketches, I decided to make the reindeer run with two legs.
And after a couple of sketches, I decided to make the reindeer run with two legs.
Here is the modeling process. I didn't use my sketch as background this time, just keep sculpting the character and see where it take me... And after that, I retopogized the model, used multires, and brought back the details to it.
I rigged them with Riggify. This is the first time I used Riggify and it was pretty impressive! It was a bit difficult to learn but I'm very happy with the result.
Texturing is done with Substance painter as always. I love making paintaly look and paint the lighting directly on the model.
And that's it! I'm still in the middle of the steep learning curve, I really hope I will be able to get better in 2023!
