This was the model sheet Sarah Strickland sent to me:
Everyone agreed that the body was not really important as it would be covered by a robe are with nCloth. The main focus I had from this drawing was to get the face right. I had to still model the model so that the emperor would be able to move, but no detail as it would not be seen.
This was my whole body model that I created:
The model has not been smoothed. There is also the top half of the robe modelled onto the emperor so that we only need to create nCloth sleeves and like a skirt section at the bottom of the robe to make it easier. The body has very little detail but the face is the part that I concentrated most on. Below is a close-up.
I used Sarah's drawings as reference but I think the eyes look unnaturally big. I think this character matches in with the cartoony look and the big eyes may compliment that so it may not be a problem. He has quite large features (his nose and eyebrows) but the hair the small tufts of hair just in front of the ears may be the hardest to rig and animate as if they are too stiff, it may look unnatural and awkward.
This will now be passed to Lily Blacknell so that she can do some nCloth tests on it and to James Waters so that he can start to rig it. The next stage for me is to texture the emperor so that when the rig is ready we can not repeat our previous mistake and skin the rig with a textured model.
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