Method of Ease?
To start of, I wondered of a way to copy the data from Soda's 'Skin' and paste it onto the other models. I did some various things using different scripts and systems but after testing them out and tweaking them I might as well have just done a whole new skin for each one! So I scrapped the copying idea, and started from scratch..
Walk Animation
With each model skinned, I started to create the walk cycle. A motion I could copy from one model and paste between all 3, a bit of time saved.
I created a motion layer with a walking preset. Which I then tweaked the various settings to meet the smaller and distorted proportions of the chibi skeleton.
Skinning Issues!
While creating the animation for Shilin, I noticed some severe rigging issues regarding her hair. When I was trying to make a custom animation for her quotation screen I found some issues that required her to be completely reskinned. I didn't have the time to do this. As a result, NONE of the chibi models have a custom personalised animation for the video. After the hand in date I will work to adjust this as I want to make these models suitable for others to use.
Side Note.
A little note on time, I'm sitting comfortably on schedule as it stands, with enough time for subtle tweaks (Shilin required too many changes to validate) and rendering as required. My concern at this stage is my laptop. It's been having Graphical issues and hardware crashes so my backup plan is to send the files to a render company in order to recieve the results for hand in date..
Render and Pre-compose!
Always have a back up plan.
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