Clean up the Rodea fanmodel in order to distribute it? nahh.
Make a whole other fanmodel for a completely unrelated character instead? YES.
The good news is, I learned plenty with that one. Hopefully enough to improve all my other models. This was tons of fun.
It's... a good thing it was fun. Luin is not the character you want to see bored...
his rig is.. FUNNY.
He was going to have so many shapekeys, I had to learn custom bone shapes. Some stuff STILL isnt optimal, I got lazy for the iris shapekeys basically and the bones get too big in pose mode but ehh. I can reorganize that later.
The ruffles move when the hand pushes them.
You might not think its a big deal but I took a long time figuring out how to make it so they wouldn't bend when the hand doesn't interact with them. In order to achieve that, I had to use shapekeys instead of weight painting them to the hand. I did not look up any tutorials so there surely is a more optimized way to do that (bone constraints maybe?), but it works for me.
Expressions! I had a lot of fun with these. Got to the point I can somewhat replicate some other characters' iconic faces. And yes, he has a toggle for the rainbow eyes and sharp teeth.. I felt like it!
And to finish this off, this was my first time working with transparent textures.
This part of his design wasn't the easiest to handle, but I'm proud of how this turned out.
Knowing how to do this properly will allow me to do his other form much easier than without :)
Thanks for reading this if you took the time to look at the whole post!
Wacca so long.
I discovered Wacca a couple weeks ago and am now mildly obsessed with this arcade game that isn't even supported anymore. marvelous please make more rhythm games
but I had to draw luin so have him inspired by deco*27 monitoring!