Designing My Villain

With the designing of my villain, I originally too a lot of inspiration from Dr Evil, of the Austin Powers series, and Gru from the film Despicable Me.

The original body shape was designed with both of these characters in mind, they are both top heavy, look manly and butch and the characteristics were planned to be similar.

The original version of my villain took shape like this:

This was the shape I had originally hoped to get, although the modelling went to plan, the rigging of the character did not. The CAT rig would not sit properly within the mesh and any movement would cause problems elsewhere on the body.

With this problem in hand, I altered the character to be slightly less 'top heavy' and made my character slimmer:

I am very happy with the newly shaped mesh, this makes it look more cartoony I feel.