Hi Guys & Gals,
We've added some renders of Nova the Science babe to our gallery.
I'm sure most of you noticed that Nova has really big blue eyes. Originally we were going to go with green but then someone said that supernovae (the inspiration behind her name) are always blue so we kinda went with blue.
Of course none of us know jack sh*t about astrophysics so maybe we could have gone with green. I honestly don't know.
Then again who cares about what color supernovae are right? Besides blue goes really well with her jumpsuit.
For those of you who are into physics and animation the answer is yes. You didn't even need to ask. They don't yet...but they will once the model is rigged.
Here is a quote from Lloyd, the polygon crafter who created Nova.
"...she looks a bit skinnier because of the subdivisions in Mudbox reduce the model's limbs. Cool huh."
So, you see the proportions are totally Mudbox's fault. I guess AutoDesk devs put it some 'Major Boobage' conditions into subdivision algorithms or something.
If there is some form of hell for sexist game developers I'm sure some of us are going there. Right behind pretty much every Blizzard artist and the guy who created Alyx for Half Life 2.
We will be back soon with more.
- Alex
"For those of you who are into physics and animation the answer is yes. You didn't even need to ask. They don't yet...but they will once the model is rigged."
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Right on boys.
Should have probably mentioned that we are now accepting donations. Our aim is to gather up some extra cash to send our wonderful 3D wizard on a research trip to find a girl with Nova's kind of physique and invite her to a motion capture studio to do a few takes.
Jumping, running, falling you know your typical platformer actions.
PS: I'll probably get my account banned or something if I keep writing this stuff :)