I would like to model an iClone STANDARD character (G5) which has the face of either a monkey or an elephant (reference images attached). I would like to have some expert opinion on the "best-way" forward

Elephant-face
1) Use the G5 character template in 3DSMax and extend the nose mesh into an elephant trunk
concerns: feasiblity of doing so without having to add extra vertices? can the elephant-trunk be soft-body enabled? can the nose be still animated separately using Crazy Talk?

2) Attach a soft-body prop to the face
concerns: feasibility? animation inside iClone? or import some default animations alongwith the prop

Monkey-face
1) as above - I guess this should be feasible. But how do we deal with the tail? As in (2) above?


Any help in this regard would be sincerely appreciated.

Regards,

Why not try both?

Success comes from experimenting.

A tail with springs or with animation controls is easy to do!

Use exactly the same method described in the Springs tutorial.

For the elephant I would make the ears and nose as Props with skin controllers. Then at iClone make them into accessories. (That is what I would do)

Mike

Mike Aparicio-Reallusion Certified Innovative Content Developer

Monkey face is not difficult look for exemple chuck :



a little head transformation ....

Hi ,

Monkey_faces :

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