Blend Shapes - Back View

Ankle joint

Ankle joint

Ankle joint

Elbow joint

Elbow joint

Football joint

Football joint

Wrist joint

Wrist joint

Blend Shapes - Front View

I have created blend shapes for the wrists, elbows and ankles. The wrists are pretty extreme but I wouldn't bend them that much anyway. I am debating whether the football joints need them too.

Elbow joints

Ankle joints

Ankle joints

Wrist joints

Wrist joints

Back View - Smoothing (skinning) @Alan

For someone reason I really struggled to smooth the back view. I'm not sure that my skinning is completely accurate, especially in the hat's bobble because the bending looks unnatural and I couldn't figure out why. 

I'm also not sure on what to do with the head? When I tilt the head it creates a gap, spoiling the illusion.  However, the king doesn't tilt his head when he is facing backwards in the animation. He is only facing backwards when he is hanging over one of the loop shapes.

Head

Knee joint

Chest joint

Wrist joint

Elbow joint

Hip joint

Lumbar 02 joint

Lumbar 01 joint

Hat bobble

Hat bobble

Front view - smoothing (skinning)

I have now finished skinning the front view by adding some additional smoothing to the joints

Arm bend

Pelvis bend 

Pelvis bend

Chest 

Chest 

Neck leaning to one side

Neck leaning to one side 

Beard movement

Beard movement 

Hip movement

Adjustments to the font

I have slightly adjusted the font by making it smaller and have placed the 'The' above the 'C'.

'The Call' Font

Redesigning the Kings Bedroom @Alan

I have redesigned the Kings bedroom as it doesn't quite keep with the 'UPA' style. It was very solid in its design, compared to the rest of my animation. I have taken my inspiration from the TV show, Gerald McBoing Boing. I looked at how they used lines and minimal blocks of colour to suggest that there is furniture and objects in a room.

This is what I managed achieve:

Redesigned - Kings Bedroom

Front view model of the Mountain King - Blocking out the skinning

I can already see a big improvement in my Skinning skills. Although skinning has taken me a long time with the previous models, this time it seems to be a lot faster. This is because I'm beginning to understand the process more.

My next task is to share and smooth the skinning across my model. I do struggle with this but I think it will be slightly easier this time round.

Snapshots of blocking out the skinning:

Front model - with joints bounded 

Shoulder

Elbow

Wrist

Hand

Knee

Ankle

Football Joint

Lumbar 2

Lumbar 1

Chest

Pelvis

Left Hip

Right Hip

Neck 

Beard Joint 1

Beard Joint 2