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This is my my final (currently ) design of Frizzina. She's the lead character for my upcoming manga series "Crystal Spires Captured", a grand adventure series slated to be released January 2016. She's totally modeled in 3D, using Blender, as all my series will be. I discovered I'm not the 2D artist I want to be, but I can do 3D in my sleep. However, I plan to set up the rendering so it gives a more "manga-style" look for my final pages.

Everything is set up. She now has good facial expressions, her hair flows better, and I can now get her clothed and be the basis of all the other chars. They will all be less involved - Frizz had to be the most advanced, as she'll be the lead, and most expressive.

Now for some Blender Specifics: Done in Blender 2.75. She's fully pose-able from head to toe. I used the Pitchipoy Rigify addon, because it has more levels of adjustment than the original Rigify. However, all the expressions are shape keys. I fought a bit trying to get the facial bones in the rig to work, but they just don't give the smoothness that a face like this needs. So I turned off all the deform properties of the facial bones, and used the adjustment bones to instead control the shape keys. The hair has a TON of bones, but I targeted them to copy rotations of a couple controller bones, so it's easy to pose.

I made it this big to get on my phone right

Description
This is my my final (currently ) design of Frizzina. She's the lead character for my upcoming manga series "Crystal Spires Captured", a grand adventure series slated to be released January 2016. She's totally modeled in 3D, using Blender, as all my series will be. I discovered I'm not the 2D artist I want to be, but I can do 3D in my sleep. However, I plan to set up the rendering so it gives a more "manga-style" look for my final pages.

Everything is set up. She now has good facial expressions, her hair flows better, and I can now get her clothed and be the basis of all the other chars. They will all be less involved - Frizz had to be the most advanced, as she'll be the lead, and most expressive.

Now for some Blender Specifics: Done in Blender 2.75. She's fully pose-able from head to toe. I used the Pitchipoy Rigify addon, because it has more levels of adjustment than the original Rigify. However, all the expressions are shape keys. I fought a bit trying to get the facial bones in the rig to work, but they just don't give the smoothness that a face like this needs. So I turned off all the deform properties of the facial bones, and used the adjustment bones to instead control the shape keys. The hair has a TON of bones, but I targeted them to copy rotations of a couple controller bones, so it's easy to pose.

I made it this big to get on my phone right