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Cheers Martin ! Glad you liked it 😃

Hi Annabel, and thank you! I had a great time putting this bit together and it was a trip down memory lane. Glad you enjoyed it.😃

Thank you Sully! I really appreciate your comment and yes I am still making characters and enjoying life. I hope you are doing what you love think and loving life too. Thanks so much for the words of encouragement. ♥️🌞

Ae man, thats disappointing , I think they spread themselves too thin before, too many expensive IPs, might have been better to do less, but better?

PS: a Fables sequel would be cool and they have all those assets they could repurpose , ( I assume.)

Happy new year SMoore's Characters! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they're really appreciated 😊

You're welcome Emily, and thank you for watching, Happy New Year!

Hi Midaaas, I'm stoked you got something out of the video. I'm working on another short bit that will go into Clementine's evolution. Hopefully will have that out in a couple of weeks.

@SMooresCharacters Oh cool, I'm looking forward to that. Thanks again! This is all really helpful for my presentation. I think I'll focus a lot on Lee's design. Do you happen to know anything about references for Kenny? For Lee, you mentioned a few actors and that he’s supposed to radiate warmth and strength. I’d like to highlight Kenny as a contrast to Lee in my presentation. Oh, and what exactly is the situation with cell shading in the game? I think you said there wasn’t any. Did that change in the later games since the general art style changed? I hope the questions weren’t too confusing or too much 🫠. I just find all of this really interesting 🙃.

@@Midaaas Regarding Kenny, the initial model was outsourced and I did some polish work on him: painting over his textures, particularly the beard. I'm sorry I don't remember what the possible influences for him were.

@@SMooresCharacters Alright. Thank you for the answer tho :)

@@Midaaas PS: regaring the cell shading, we did make a conscious effort to upgrade the visuals on Season 3 and 4. We went for a more realistic sculpting style, developed some special tech for the ink lines,( actually borrowed from the Fables project, I believe) which enabled us to get much better resolution for the lines and I think we also included outlines on the Characters in Season 4 and possibly season 3.

I'll do some research this week and see if I can figure it out.

Thanks that's a cool suggestion. I did make Michonne back in the day, but I don't think i have a record of her. I have been mulling over doing a tribute to Clementine, maybe her battling a Zombie :D

@ thanks for replying bro. You seriously don’t know how much of a legend you are for your work on TWD. Seriously iconic 🤝

Yea, you're right, I have toned it down in recent videos.

Yea, I had trouble getting animations to work in Marvelous Designer and still need to figure that out! The Morph Target is useful for getting Characters into a pose, but if it's an extreme pose you sometimes need an in between pose. It worked well for puffing up the chest though.

Cheers ! that means a lot to me 😀

Thank you so much, I hope it helped.

Yea! Ya know in game cloth simulation is a thing now, so MD skills will help for sure.

Oh yea, regarding hotkeys: it get's super confusing sometimes, switching from program to program. :D

Sorry, it's been a while since I made this video so I'll have to go back and refresh my memory.

@@SMooresCharacters when i use zremesh i loose my uv that i made in marvelius software, like puckerings and stiches.

@@elyootafaridzadeh1164 Yes, sorry but that is unavoidable, however, I did a test and you could copy the uvs from your original mesh that you exported from Marvelous Designer to the new ZRemesh version using a tool like "Transfer Attributes" in Maya and copy the UVs based on World Space. I try to make a short video demo in the near future.

​@@SMooresCharacters lovely, thou i use blender, i found my way somewhat different, mine is export from marvelous in flat version aswell and then retopo flat version and get a projection Uv from it and then use mesh deform to form it around my first obj... for any one who wants :)

@@elyootafaridzadeh1164 Glad to hear you found a solution!

I think that love it or hate it, it is here to stay and we will have to adapt to new ways of doing things. I understand the frustration of people who have had their work stolen without being compensated. In the near term I am trying to learn more about it so I can be better prepared for the future. I have learnt that it is very hard to predict the future so I remain optimistic.

PS: It's a big subject and so that's my attempt at an abbreviated answer. I hope that's cool ?

Cheers and e3xtra good Mojo for you! :D

Aww!🤟

Awesome!

Hey Cheers JJones! maybe Telltale Games is no more BUT Skybound is making games now :D

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I have a soft spot for the season 1 style. They just had more character somehow. I notice that the eyes are bigger in the game version. How did that come about? Was that modeled in later, or added by blendshapes (or something) after the fact?

@@jjones1032 Cheers! Yea, something I didn't mention in the video: I made adjustments to the meshes in the final. Lee's jaw got more squared off, Lee pointy and unregards to the eyes I think the textures help to enhance them.

Yes, I have tried fiber mesh. Hair Designer is faster and easier. I don't claim to be an expert with Fiber mesh but I find it labor intensive.

PS: I think, if I was do photorealistic pre rendered stuff I might use Fiber mesh for the foreground hair and cards for the stuff that is in the background. My Friend Andrew Chen does some nice photo real stuff and that is his approach.

@@SMooresCharacters I meant the software called fibershop

Oh sorry no, I shall have it check it out. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks HelloCorgi, you're awesome!

Cheers and I love your profile pic! 😄 and yes, one of the best rewards is seeing fan art or cos play of characters you've worked on.

Cheers! Hellocorgi !

I can honestly say no, I never thought I'd be creating costumes like a tailor. The world of computer graphics is full of surprises. 😁

Hi Azizibrahem, yes it is intended to be a video on the Season 1 and 2 art style. Admittedly I did use a season 3 asset for the sculpt but the focus was texturing. I hope that's OK.

@@SMooresCharacters Thanks for the effort man , I'm actually in Love with this art style, i made some models using a similar method, using watercolor, black lines, and such , you know , for some fanarts n fan made animations

@@SMooresCharacters i wanna ask ya something, will this apply for humans and props? I know it's the same method, but i reckon if that doesn't bother you , you could do some textures with props n s1+2+ michonne human , I really appreciate your effort and love your work

Oh Sweet! I'd love to see.

@@azizibrahem27 Actually no, props fell under environments, and the Environment team took a different approach because they have more assets to create so they tend to keep things simple. For Walking Dead season 1 and 2 I don't think they used normal maps, instead they hand painted diffuse maps and used a library of alpha brushes to help create the sketchy line art.

Thanks Feintxdd, your comment means a lot . Cheers!

Cheers Shadowscheme!

Awsome! Cheers Ghostrecon,

Cheers HelloCorgi ! you're welcome.

Cheers JJones, I always appreciate your encouragement. Thanks !

Hey, that is so cool to hear, Me too: I love to see how old school movie models are made, and I watch a lot of model painting demos too.

Right on! feels like I got it right this time. Cheers!

Hi EmilyHodgson, thanks for the comment, it will certainly help motivate me to make that next episode!

Hi Holymacorony, I appreciate it!

Cheers JJones, I really appreciate that!

Hey JJones, thank you so much for your comment's and support. I had to delete the latest video that you hand commented on, but I wanted to let you know I saw your comment about playing the Telltale's the Walking Dead every year and I really appreciated it. I hope you have a fantastic New Year!

​@@SMooresCharacters You too! Happy holidays to you and yours!

Hi Vincenzo, it is true I was grooming the hair on a posed model. The catch is, I kept the head straight and actually twisted the torso instead, so it was easier to work on the face.

Thanks for watching! 😁

Right On!

Yes, thanks, that's a cool idea. 😄

OK, I just posted that tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/jrxb5FixVT0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Eie8i3JpdNSbf-k7

Cheers! and thanks for the encouragement!

Yes, I won't try to predict the future, however I do wonder if this is the beginning of the end for capitalism? I imagine some people will make a lot of money in the short term, but ultimately AI might displace the need for human labor: intellectual and physical, and so there will be no market for goods and services...I say this but every time I try to predict the future things happen that I could never have imagined.

Cheers Omser! and thanks for the encouragement :D

My pleasure! Big fan of your work man! I really appreciate the insights you have given :]

Hey thanks JJones, I appreciate it.

Cheers!

Thanks JJones!

Cheers Casey!