Toadie

To heck with it, I'm pulling the sheet off. For the past few months I've been working on a VRChat avatar and while she's probably about as complete as below - meaning, there's still some tuning to do and a couple of bits of extra clothing to actually finish, all the mechanical bits are all now together and in a state where she's good enough to start using.

Ta-dah~!

I am really quite pleased with this, honestly. It's been an time learning to both do character modelling in Blender, learning character rigging in Blender, AND learning both Unity and the specifics of VR development in all one go, but sometimes you're given a mountain and your choices are to scale it and achieve what you want, or you don't.
So this has been my primary occupation in my off time for that entire, putting basically every other project aside to get done. I wanted to get it done as far as I could go while I had some fire to finish- motivation being a notoriously fickle thing. Humorously, this is in contrast to my last attempt at an avatar, which was last year, which I ultimately got frustrated at and left languishing over months- binned and started anew with this one. I may finish it as a gift at some point, but I'm basically uninterested in finishing it for myself anymore.

Things still not 100% complete on the Avatar as-standing -

• Texture work (clothes, hair, glasses - all just basic colour thrown down to get the point across)
• Some clipping occurs on the shoulder when it bends certain ways.
• I think I need to hone the look of shaders a little, the effects are a little coarse.
• probably needs some more emotes and I would LIKE to get some emotions-based ear movements in.
• Technical issues with regards to outfit toggles and a couple of expressions
• There is an entire set of clothes I've yet to complete that I'm extremely excited for - the train-themed overalls with the trains 'n' trans pins

I've got an timeline album showing off the visual state from start to now, if you're interested in seeing how it came together.

Anyway, I just wanted to share. I'll probably do an update when I have the overalls with the pins done, because it's a special treat, but.. yah, this is a thing I have been doing.