Esports Mascot
Mascot character for an Esports team
Done with the team at Aquifer Motion.
I was responsible for high poly, low poly, texturing and blendshapes.
For animation purposes, we decided to lengthen the arms.
Along with the normal 52 blendshapes, I created 10 additional blendshapes/emotes which used texture swapping.
Sami has 2, 4K texture sets.
65K tris
Concept art: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/B1dz8m
Rigging by Laura Smith
Unity implementation by Jacob Davis and Joe Rannells
Substance render
Zbrush turnaround. Arms were made longer for easier animating
Final LP in Maya
Selection of special blendshapes that use texture swapping
4k texture sheets
Props and costumes were made depending on the team's destination or holiday. Here I made maracas and a moustache for a tournament in Mexico.
A santa version of Sami was made for the holidays. Substance render.
Zbrush sculpt of Santa Sami
Emotes/blendshapes were edited to allow the beard to move with them.
Announcement video