Blaze head WIP (Patreon)

As always fur/hair is highly in progress, all the other things are just moderately.

Not far from being done, but it will be better to move onto an other character for now to keep the momentum going.

I'm finally in the know-how enough to have done some rigging experiments, her eyes are actually in a relaxed middle modeling pose originally, but have been opened using the eyelid rig i made.

It is just fascinating how tricky it is to get the eyelashes running in parallel with the eyelids when they are in motion.

Still haven't fully conquered the subject, as i want the lashes to be lightly waving in the wind and also from momentum, as of right now they are just a solid line of "hair", but at least in synchronous motion with the eyelids.

Also took some time this pulled hair effect i thought up for Blaze in some of my handdrawn sketches a couple months back. I want to spice up the coming days with a completed (yes, she is going to have more than three "strands") and rigged hair test animation for her so stay tuned!

As i mentioned earlier everybody is being done from scratch without looking at any of the ones i already done, neither any major references. Will be fun to see them put next to each other in the end, to see how all the little nuances make each of them unique. Not just the usual "different colored fur, slight eye shape difference" kinda crap here.

I have managed to retrieve Knuckles' hair from a file i have done 9 flippin years ago, and found it worthy of saving even in 2018, so Knuckles is up next and hopefully isn't going to take this long.