Week 2

9/17/22

Made a lot of progress so far. Almost done with the wolf body to the point of secondary forms. I'll do the tertiary forms tomorrow or during the week.

Also, I decided I wanted to jump ahead a bit to the Houdini part so I can avoid any issues coming up late in the process. I want to make sure the grooming tools will work with my at home license. Also want to ensure that I can get the groom moving and deforming with animation. To test this, I hand animated in Maya a few seconds of a wolf that I already had modeled and rigged (not rigged by me).

9/20/22

Made some good progress on detailing the wolf body. I knew the face would take the longest since I want it to be a focal point in my film. This weekend I should have all the parts done so I can retopo and then work on blendshapes for a preview of the film. Some friends of mine sent me some good videos of rigging tutorials and also Ziva. Things I will look into and if it takes too long, I will dismiss it. I also put out feelers in the rigging discord to see if someone would be interested in rigging it potentially.

Just for a side-by-side comparison of the work I did today. Progress!