The TAG Project is a collaborative student production, on which I worked as Character Modeling Team Leader. It's story depicts two primary characters, Guy and Jane, at different points through their lives - this is the seventh and final version of Guy.

As Team Leader, I took over the head and body models for this character at a very early stage when their original modelers moved and left the project. I reworked them substantially, adding anatomical detail while correcting the topology for animation and to conform to the character design. I also completely replaced the hands and feet, and built teeth and hair models. (The hair model is a placeholder intended to act as a guide for later, effects-based hair).

The facial setup work I did occurred after the component blend targets had all been modeled by different members of the Character Rigging team (I personally modelled the "shove" shapes, where the lips slide left or right around the teeth). When it became apparent that these separately generated targets did not combine effectively, I was asked to rework the models into a coherent, functional system.

Character Design by Jude Silva.
Initial Meshes courtesy Josh Bapst and Gina Kim.
Initial Blendshape Targets by Andrei Savu, Bryan Eck, Dowayne Gayle, George Smaragdis, Alex Brennan, Philip Cunha-manley, Justin Maynard, and Greg Denton.