Skateboarding Frog
This is the first scene I put together to try and learn several things at once. If you unmute this video you can hear that I actually went and recorded skateboard sound effects from Skater XL so that it would actually sound kind of correct 😄
I had never actually modeled & tried to rig an entire character like this. I tried to keep the model as low poly as possible because I knew that in the past I ran into a lot of issues with weight painting. This was the first time I got to do this with a freshly rigged character:
The real win here was figuring out how to correctly rig/weight paint these shoes. Also using constraints to get these skateboard trucks to behave the right way.
The first thing I actually animated with this character was just a little loop of him carving. This is still my favorite thing to come out of this project.