Meet Asger
By Tim Collins
Greetings to all the people of the internet. In this post I will be showing off my most recent project and also giving a short update.
Since last semester I have started on different project that involves new characters and a new story. I am still in the modeling phase and have already completed one of my two characters. My two characters are a pair of vikings, the one that I am sharing with you today I have named Asger.
During my first pre-production phase I began drawing some character designs and eventually decided to use the concept of a pair of vikings going on an adventure. Once I had my concept down I began modeling Asger right away. And after many weeks of trail and error I finally finished his 3d model. Now I am working as fast as possible on my other character, who is yet to be named, and the environment I plan on putting them in. 
Compared to my previous work this style is much more stylized and not as realistic. This is because I attempted creating Asger as a realistic looking character but I felt that a more cartoony appearance would fit the theme better and it would be much easier and faster to create. For being my first stylized character model I feel that I did decent. Along the way I learned further how to paint weights using Maya. My biggest problem I had involved attaching the belt to his body. The problem was that I had already painted the weights onto the model but I had not attached the belt yet. So I had to undo the weights, attach the belt, and then repaint the weights. Now I know that you should make sure you completely finishing building the model before you start painting the weights.The only problems that I have with this model is that the area under the arms the skin has slightly folded into itself. I tried smoothing the area but everything I did either made it worse or did nothing at all.
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