~ Chaac ~
Working on Chaac was a brand new experience. Skin 8 and 9
were part of a DREAM HACK event with a norse invasion theme, same
with the Kali skins 8 and 9. These skins for rathe fun, though the
challenge for this skin was more in getting the belt across his
torso to follow his body. That in itself was not new, but it was my
first experience with weighting 4 individual arms on the same body.
Weighting both of these skins at the same time was ejoyable and it
taught me how to handle multitasking between gods and
skins.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Einherjar
Date Released: 24.05.206
Character Modeler: Jerry Gardiner
Bone Count 62
Working on Chaac was a brand new experience. Skin 8 and 9 were part
of a DREAM HACK event with a norse invasion theme, same with the
Kali skins 8 and 9. These skins for rathe fun, though the challenge
for this skin was more in getting the belt across his torso to
follow his body. That in itself was not new, but it was my first
experience with weighting 4 individual arms on the same body.
Weighting both of these skins at the same time was ejoyable and it
taught me how to handle multitasking between gods and
skins.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Storm Jarl
Date Released: 24.05.206
Character Modeler: Jerry Gardiner
Bone Count 74
~ Ah Puch ~
Ah Puch was an interesting god to work with; not difficult, but interesting. This skin for Ahpuch was fun, and it was one of his few skins that show an expressive face. I had a lot of fun weighting him and his minions for this chilling skin.
Special Thanks:
Skin Name: Chilling Grasp
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 64
Ah Puch was an interesting god to work with; not difficult, but interesting. This skin for Ahpuch was fun, and it was one of his few skins that show an expressive face. I had a lot of fun weighting him and his minions for this chilling skin.
Special Thanks:
Skin Name: Chilling Grasp
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 64
Ah Puch was an interesting god to work with; not difficult, but interesting. This skin for Ahpuch was fun, and it was one of his few skins that show an expressive face. I had a lot of fun weighting him and his minions for this chilling skin.
Special Thanks:
Skin Name: Chilling Grasp
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 74
Working on AhPuch's Skin 5 was relatively straight forward. The quirky part of this skin to handle I would say was the skirt leaves and the lei around his neck. the skirt, because his previous skins had more rigid materials, so weighting these leaves to follow the old animations had me going back and forth for polish. The lei was less of a challenge than I anticipated. I created a proxy with similar volume then skin wrapped the lei to the proxy for the volume.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Freaky Tiki
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 52
This skin for AhPuch made the minions very different. Honestly, when these were assigned to me I was quite surprised. I managed to reuse the old rig for the minions with haveing to make only minor tweaks. I manually added in a horselink bone to the biped and adjusted the skirt bones for their new positions. The animations transitioned rather easily to the new skeleton setup.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Freaky Tiki
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 56
I chose this idle animation because it shows a wide range of movement as well as how expressive his face is.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Chilling Grasp
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 64
AhPuch's Minions have very little animations, but my personal favorite animation is the Fire Animation because of how large the mouth opens.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Chilling Grasp
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 64
AhPuch's Minions have very little animations. This is the run animation for the double minions where they dash forward.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Chilling Grasp
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 74
This Intro animation was made unique for AhPuch's Skin 5, Freaky Tiki. I always enjoy how animated AhPuch is with his actions and personality.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Freaky Tiki
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 52
There are not may animations I can show off with this double Minion, so I chose to show the looping animation of the double minion running forward.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Freaky Tiki
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: Greg Britt
Bone Count: 56
~ Camazotz ~
I did not build the main part of this skin for Camazotz. My part in this Skin was in weighting the head fin and the new facial bones.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Jurassic
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Wayne Williams
Bone Count: 71
Camazotz is usually at the maximum number of bones for the editor, so some skins are hard to budget new controls for. This skin was cool to work on because I added 5 new tail controls as well as two hidden controls inside the wings to preserve the bands in the wing lining. The two added wing bones were tricky to weight without messing up the existing wing behavior.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Stone Sentinel
Date Released: 17.09.2017
Character Modeler: Jerry Gardiner
Bone Count: 81
Camazotz's Skin 5 was a T2 rig, meaning that there would be no new controls or animation support. The addition of the rib cage on the torso and the skull on the face was fun and intersting in maintainting the expressions on his face in the animations.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Xibalba's Shadow
Date Released: 14.06.2017
Character Modeler: Jack Banta
Bone Count: 78
I chose this animation because it was unique to this skin and it shows off my part in this rig, the head fin and the face.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Jurassic
Date Released: 06.12.2016
Character Modeler: Wayne Williams
Bone Count: 71
I had to show off his unique death animation for this skin. It shows off his wings as well as plays off of the gargoyle qualities of the skin.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Stone Sentinel
Date Released: 17.09.2017
Character Modeler: Jerry Gardiner
Bone Count: 81
The dance animation was a fun way of showing off the flex of the wings and expressions, so I decided to use it to show off this skin.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Xibalba's Shadow
Date Released: 14.06.2017
Character Modeler: Jack Banta
Bone Count: 78
~ Awilix ~
Awilix seemed simple when I initially saw her, but her rig had a couple quirks that were interesting. She shares a rig file with her jaguar so she has an extensive skeleton, but aside from that, she was fun to work on. Awilix is one of SMITE's more animated gods and it was fun to incorporate her new controls and bones into her fluid animations.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Midnight Dove
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: Scott Kletzka
Bone Count: 77
Awilix's partner Jaguar to the Skin 5 was relatively simple with the body being nearly one to one to the base cat. Like with Awilix herself, the weird part in this rig was in the two of them sharing a skeleton but having seperate exports. Otherwise the addition of the feathers on the face and legs were fun to weight.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Midnight dove
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: David Riddle
Bone Count: 58
Awilix had a few new animations, but her Dance EMOTE animation is far more expressive and fun.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Midnight Dove
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: Scott Kletzka
Bone Count: 77
The jaguar for Skin 5 didn't have any unique animations, but I did like the idle animation.
Special Thanks
Skin Name: Midnight Dove
Date Released: 26.7.2017
Character Modeler: David Riddle
Bone Count: 58
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