LUCA GORTANA       
 
3D Technical Artist and Animator


EPSILON - CHARACTER RIG


EPSILON
Created using Autodesk Maya to model+rig and Substance Painter for texturing.        

Creating this character improved my hard-surface modeling skills, and introduced me to the process of manually rigging of characters.

The manual creation of the rig allowed for much better control of the animations and deformations.      




ANIMATIONS      
When creating the animations, I knew that I wanted to emphasize the weight of the character in them; this robot is, after all, a big, heavy chunk of metal!

I took that into account when animating: having the weight distribution really drag, with the center of mass driving the motions.      
idle animation
walk animation

Viewport render

       Topology


Initial sketch of design
FK controls
IK controls