Demi Remi Sunday, 7 June 2009

When we started out on this journey we didn’t know if we’d have enough time to make new characters in between episodes – perhaps we should have mentioned this. But everyone has been so imaginative and the story wouldn’t have gone far without the characters you’ve dreamt up. Fortunately, we had a cunning plan! Making completely new character models would have taken too long, so we’ve gone green and done some recycling. If you’ve been watching closely, you’ll have noticed that our female characters are the same from the neck down. Same goes for Otto and Kyle. We simply replaced their heads with new designs, avoiding the need to make complex new body meshes and rigging them up to move correctly – very time consuming. Simply changing the colours and texture of the clothes – a relatively easy process – helps to give the impression we’ve created a completely new character.

So here’s Prof. Remi in a state of semi-completion. She started off as a Lyn, had her specs, earings and…er…head removed and a Remi head spliced on. Remi isn’t quite finished yet. She’s good enough to animate though, so you’ll see her later this week in the rough animation.