Chucktacular

Gee whiz Shawn, thank you for those awesome words of support for the three of us. I can truly say that personally, I have gained so much from this class, not only in skills but in enjoyment. It's great to have a passion that one can let fly with in the company of like-minded, talented people. Having your praise and support along the way has been so important too, so cheers! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my Monday and Tuesday nights when it's all over...time to learn Spanish perhaps!

Re the Chuck prototype guys, thanks for the suggestions and comments. Mat, I was thinking about the eyebrows after seeing yours and reading your suggestion, and I think I can follow a similar principle, except instead of making Chuck's eyebrows blocky like Gene's, I'm heading toward making a similar shape but trying to give them an opacity mapped hair texture, so that they are fuzzy when rendered instead of opaque. Or I just hair up his brow because it seems that because Chuck will have that caveman brow, I will still have to move some of the geometry instead of relying on the eyebrows alone to give him his deep expressions; it will just come down to figuring out the balance between eyebrow and eyelid. At least I only have to make five morphs or so at the most, instead of the amount Gene will need to have. P.S. I'm loving Gene - I concede, he's totally cute. Can't wait to see him textured.

Re the head shape Wazza, yeah, I agree, he needs more forehead and perhaps less cheeks, or at least they need to smooth to his jaws better. I think more head will balance the lower part out. The eyes I'm still figuring out, because the shape makes them shifty, but rounder looks less nonchalant...still playing with that one. The smile I'll figure out too, but I think as long as his eyes widen with it, it will work.

By the way, I was thinking that perhaps I don't even need to skin Chuck; perhaps intead of skinning his hand (the only one that really moves) I could just morph target it...since it only does about three things. Tell me what you guys think, Shawn too.

Will post some updates later this evening.