This is a new character from my daytime job, from the online comic strip 'The Premier' as I've mentioned in the last two character head entries. The character shown is a young 16 year old tearaway who comes from a single parent family, unfortunately he mixes with the wrong crowd.


The actual face is the same mesh as the Stan and Decker Characters here in my portfolio and again, utilising the parallel setting in the blendshape editor I was able to use the same targets for this character from that of the original base mesh with minor adjusting where required. I decided to 'sculpt' the hair on the final model rather than make a separate cap. There were a few issues with the bump maps because of this but I manage to keep a happy balance. For the 'beard'/'peach fuzz', I again used Maya Fur. This character has 30 blend shapes in all. This was probably the quickest design and output on character head Ive done so far, including the blends, it took around 8 days.