In this tutorial, however, I’ll take you through the process and show you how I use the comic faces to create 3D characters for finished artwork stills.

Your custom characters can then be exported to iClone 6 for lighting, posing and rendering and are also ready for animation. The limitless possibilities for these faces really become apparent when you apply them to the base models in Character Creator, where you can use the morph sliders to create an infinite number of characters from each face. Ten original hands sketched cartoon faces, fully rigged as 3D head models for use in CrazyTalk 8. And so began the idea behind “Garry Pye’s Comic Face Pack”.

Then I started to wonder if my 2D cartoons would work in Reallusion’s 3D software like CrazyTalk 8(CT8) and iClone 6. In that time my main focus has been on the creation of 2D assets for CrazyTalk Animator 2, including hand drawn cartoon characters, props, and scenes. I plan to change this colors and paint where necessary, as I progress.My name is Garry Pye and since 2014 I’ve been a content developer for Reallusion.

I was originally doing Lobo, as I mentioned, so I dialed down the Saturation in the Dynamic Appearance editor for the skin, in order to get a chalky flesh look. Since Character Creator does not automatically adjust bones, you need to reference the proportions of a base model or preset. The morphs can be baked and saved as a preset, which is important for importing the sculpted changes. This speeds up the sculpting process, and also keeps the character rig in the correct proportions. I began by using the internal shaping tools to block out a base mesh that I can export and sculpt on. It is a free app that allows you to load reference images.

I started my character process by downloading a tool called 'Image Overlay Utility'. For this reason, I will only loosely reference Lobo (along with other characters). Originally I was going to do Lobo as my contest submission, but I've since been told that the emphasis is on character design originality. I started WIP thread on Reallusion's forum before this one opened.

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