For Maloyó, I knew from the beginning I was going to need facial animation and my old character mesh had a number of problems: bad topology, very low poly mesh, no mouth interior, etc etc. It was OK for some stills or non-facial animation but that was all. So I started remodelling arms, hands, and correcting topology as to have nicer deformations.

Major work was to remodel the whole face. Here I started from scratch (actually from a Cube ) and in the meantime I re-studied the old edge-looping theory.

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The Club de Animación is an uruguayan site pretty similar to the old 10 Seconds Club, and this month they presented a challenge in homage to John Lasseter: to animate an ordinary object using “You got a friend in me” as audio track. No eyes, no mouth, no nothing, only the object. I thought it was quite a challenge to give personality to a character only using limited resources. So I got in :-)I took one of these rare sundays when I have nothing else to do and modelled a beer mug, put some bones in it and started animating. It was quite fun I must say !. You can watch what I made downloading from here (warning to Windows users, not all players support FFMPEG DivX) or you can watch a low quality version at YouTube .

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