No way new Crossworlds character dropped #catppy

Finished the cleanup on the rig now, mostly. Properly aligned foot and hand controls, added better (and missing) shapes for like the ears, eye sockets, poles, tail, whiskers...

I think #Catppy can be considered "ready" (for version 1)

Unexpected encounters.

#cappy #catppy

I love squishing and stretching and fluffing, this is too much fun. #catppy

I've added the teeth and tongue to the face rig, and some improvements to the cheeks and oh my goodness I was not expecting her to turn out this expressive #catppy

How it started: *looks at u with my huge eyes*
How it's going: dont worry you'll be safe. I think.

#catppy

OK which of you made her upset... #catppy

Things are starting to fall into place and it's looking pretty nice so far #catppy

What's missing is face rig weight fixing, making a copy of everything, applying mirror modifiers and doing some slight cleanup and first version is doooooone #catppy

Over time some loss of volume had been happening to the face, it happens when smoothing edges over and over because it’ll flatten any curve there is.

So I went back in and fixed it, back to round, cute soft face. 😊 #catppy

You hear a playful jingle of a cat collar's bell.

#catppy

Rough retexture because I redid the face and wanted to practice texture painting. #catppy

Past days have been a bit rough due to migraine and aftereffects of said migraine.

But in more positive news: #catppy has done an oopsie

Quick test version where textures aren’t entirely there, missing shaderwork and some handpainted details but RAHHH

#catppy will be real!

Finally it feels like things are falling into place. Retopo mostly done, I'll do another pass on it later. Weighted and rigged while retopoing it, face is still needing to be done.

Feel good to see #catppy come to life.

Well oops accidentally CloudRig. #catppy

Things in retopo land are starting to drop into place. It's taken a bit longer than I anticipated, blaming my sinuses being upset. But that's okay, there's no real hurry.

Also FEETSIES #catppy

It might look a big crude currently, as I it’s just an unpainted mesh, eye is still placeholder.

But #catppy has seen a lot of progress. I do a crude rig+weight while working so I can pose and see potential problematic areas that need extra topo.

I'll just use #catppy as the hashtag for progress on this to keep things somewhat organized.

I re-started the retopo and laying out roughly some main loops, trying to avoid the temptation to just fill in areas yet. I'll keep the arms, legs and neck at 16 loops each for starters.