Thanks to all for schnoz patrol, your input will be considered.
Here's the latest character head, the main character (so far just known as "guy".) Doofy teenager.
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Still needs eyebrows.

There is good progress going on in here. Well done, Jesse.
Your next short is going to look even better than your first.

Heh heh. He looks kind of emo.

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Maybe a little

Building the main character's body. Once again, basically a colliding object to react with the clothes.
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Thanks for the comments, guys!

Finished the body of the main character, tomorrow I'll build him some clothes. And I still need to clothe the instructor.
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I may make him scrawnier. We'll see how the clothes hang.

Moving right along, I like his hair, looks good Jessie

Thanks, we tried to make him a disaffected doofy teenager.
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Did some quick sketches for clothing ideas, t-shirt and denims def...
These colours resonated with me, and should work with the other characters thus far.
Any ideas, people?

This animation is going to be very cool! Great characters!

Thanks, we work quite a bit slower than you, Mr. Speedy-spleeny, but we try to do our best

I'm concentrating on 2 things right now, storyboards/animatics, and character design.

Well your characters are great! I will love seeing this animation.
One day I hope my characters look this good.
I should go do my spline exercises now LOL.

I like the clothes and the hair style looks graet for the charector

Finally got a chance to throw some clothes on this guy; school has been a time-drainer!
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The colours are not final.

Textured the pants.
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hehehe he is great!

All right, still some stuff that needs to be smoothed out with the rigging, but I'm done for tonight.
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The cloth seems to be working well in that shot ,nice pose

Jesse,
You've made some nice progress since I last looked in on you.

He's looking really good!

Thanks guys!
Things are slow going with school work etc., but I'm happy with the progress so far. (Working on the storyboards on the train to and from class.)

I'll post some more next week after this weekend, which is really busy with weddings and parties and stuff.

Poor old you lol

It is actually more work than it sounds, especially balancing requisite social engagements, work, and homework.

Well yea I supose it can be a bit duanting but enjoy it while your young enough ,life will slow down soon enough

That is vaguely depressing

Real nice, frosteternal. I get a sense of his character already.

It wasn't meant to be

Thanks Kat, I'm working on this in between midterms right now =) I need all the encouragement!

A+ modeling!
Very clean and expressive.

Thanks, y'all - this is just the encouragement needed!
I'm working on rigging the Guy's face...
more to come!

Hey guys...been super busy here with school (only ~3 quarters left before graduation!)

Just finished laying out the rig for the main character's face. (Had a short break between chemistry homework and cinematography final project.)
I'll hopefully have time to attach the geometry this wednesday.

Nicely done, it a wonder you have any extra time.
Early congratulation on your up coming graduation

Thanks... I've attached the geometry, but don't have time to work out the last kinks just now. Screening day is fast approaching for my final project in Cinematography =)

Main character face rigged!

I'm hoping to get more done on this project this weekend before next week of "Jesse Un-Plugged" - where I'm going to spend one whole week NOT sitting in front of the computer and get all my biking and hiking out of my system.

I cannot wait.

Face rig testing....
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That looks like it gives good control ,yet it looks duable or am I seing only some of the bones there

That is actually all the bones visible. As face rigs go, it is simple.

Well in that case I think I would like to give it a go ,is there a tut anywhere for it or is this your own rig OR would you be doing a tut sometime ,when you get the time as I know your busy

Yeah, this is my own rig, I like to think of it as a rubber mask rig. Essentially, no parts are parented. The control points are all nulls. All the bones are kinematic and translate-to constrained to those nulls, with "Scale to Reach" turned on. They function as stretchy muscles in the face, and are constrained to points they intersect (with some weighting) The only real "trick" is that the lower lip nulls are parented under one null that translates 50% with the jaw null, and the jaw null is aimed-at by the jaw bone. My layout of "muscles" is pretty basic; you can get as complex as you want. The main advantage is that the face can stretch along the muscle bones when you shape the mouth, jaw etc. It makes for very "lively" face motions, so you don't have to think about moving the cheeks etc when you smile or curl the lips. (I'm even planning to take the idea step further eventually for fat characters or muscle bulges in limbs.) The "Scale to Reach" is an extremely powerful option...

Thank's for the explanation ,Im gonna try it and see how I go -,probably get it wrong but test and try

Face animation tests, nothing special, just some extremes.

nice work.
with the white eyes and no pupils he looks possessed.

It isn't just the pupils. =)
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great eyes!

Thanks, I use Darktree procedural human iris free texture for the colour map and the trick is to model the cornea too.
Without a lens, the eye looks flat and dead.
Never, I mean NEVER skimp on the eyes.
Reflections? Check. Refraction? Check.
Transparency? Procedural texturing? Check. Check.
Worth every clock-cycle.

Very nice face movement and graet looking eyes,theye really bring him to life

Thank you =)

You see all that schooling is working for you
I'm like Steve I'm going to try your way it makes a lot of sense, and looks very good.
thanks for sharing

Well, I dunno about school being any help (not a 3d major and don't begin modeling class until july 14th...)

But thanks for the encouragement. I'm trying to get as much done as possible before class start again.