Ewok for a Echoes of Darkness

I created the Ewok and its accessories for a fanmade Star Wars film called Echoes of Darkness

Still renders:



Turntable renders



Workflow:

  • Blender for sculpting, modeling, some procedural texturing, grooming, rigging, animation, fur simulation, rendering.
  • Substance Painter for texturing.
  • HoudiniFX for cloth simulation.

I had to incorporate it into live-action footage so I tried to make it as realistic looking as I could.


Quick rig showcase:


WIP results (no FX and masking):

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Incredible work, especially with the fur. Looks great in the test footage as well. (Although- the sound is mono, it’s left channel only. Don’t know if that’s intentional?)

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Thanks!

the fur was done with the old hair system (started the project a while ago) and using the turbulence force field helped me to achieve the specific look I was going for. Nowadays it can be done with geo nodes and noises :smiley: (which is a lot more practical because you don’t need to convert your particles to mesh to apply the force field deformations and then back to particles)

I also needed small clumps but because fractal clumping isn’t a thing yet I needed a bunch of parent hairs (If you look at the rig video I enable them at 0:19).

Oh yeah the sound being broken was just because it was a quick edit thrown together :smiley: When the project is finished (there is still some filming being done and it has to be edited and go trough compositing) I’ll change the video to the polished version :slight_smile:

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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Thank you! You have a nice one as well!

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Super cool everything works really well, there is a lot of different craft here and nothing is dragging the result down. Even the animation feels really natural, is it all hand animated or you did something else ?

Congrats !

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Thank you! :slight_smile:
Yep it is all hand animated but the reference I recorded of my self doing the actions helped a lot! I also noticed that it is super import that your movement happens in nice spirals/curves.

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Whooaaaaa! Nice!!

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Thank you! :smiley:

You’re on the #featured row! :+1:

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Good job! Though, I have to say, the naked version of the Ewok in that rig video looks so cursed. The design is so unsettling without the fur covering it up. :skull:

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Looks believable, real. Good Job !

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