Variation Skins for Generic Male Maya Rig

I am starting to work on some variations to the Kill Bill styled character. These will take two forms. The first will be hand drawn pen and ink; plenty of cross hatching, on water colour paper and scanned.

The other will be collage based. I want to do some thing using the old Spode Willow Plate patterns that were created near the University in the 1700's.

Spode Willow plate - 1700's

Spode Pottery Willow Pattern rough test

Then some collage pieces using old etchings from Piranesi...

Giovanni Piranesi etching rough test

...and any other interesting etchings I can find...

Etching of foliage test

Improved uv unwrapping / textures for the Kill Bill / Bruce Lee styled generic male character...

Improved uv unwrapping for the Kill Bill / Bruce Lee styled generic male character...

The uv for this was a bit hit & miss before.

This week the students get to have a go so I have tidied it up prior to them getting their hands on it.

uv / texturing  work in progress

When it is finished this rig will be available for download for anyone who wants to give it a go, with a choice of textures!

Kill Bill / Bruce Lee inspired costume for the Generic Male animation fundamentals rig.

Got the Generic Male rig finished with Autodesk Maya and HumanIK. The first year animation students have been using it for Animation Principles this semester. Seems to behave itself overall.

Now adding textures.

The first one is a Kill Bill / Bruce Lee inspired costume.

 I included a blood splattered version for a laugh!

Students will get to make this character using Maya after Christmas as part of our Sculpture for Animation module, then rig it as well in HumanIK. 

Looking forward to that, should be a laugh (famous last words if ever I heard them)!

I am planning more textures soon, time permitting.