If you search online for how to structure Manga, Anime, a Webtoon comic, or more you will find various discussions on what terminology to use to describe the structure of content. In this post I describe the terminology that I think makes the most sense for web stories, the format I am planning to use […]
Author: alankent
3D Anime Approaches (and thoughts for myself)
My personal goal is to create an semi-animated comic. In particular, create a “web story” per episode of a series. I do not plan to create fully animated episodes, but instead create pages with short animation clips – more like a comic book where the pictures move a bit (the eyes widen, a punch in […]
Unity Blendshapes to add Muscles to VRoid Characters
VRoid gives you a lot of flexibility over many things of a character, but arm thickness is not one of them. You can control the muscular/plumpness of the chest somewhat, but there are no controls on the arms. This can look a bit strange when the rest of the body is of larger dimensions, but […]
Riding a Scooter in Unity with VRoid Characters
I wanted to have a character ride an electric scooter. I am not going to worry initially about mounting and dismounting, but I do want the character to have the hands on the handlebars as the scooter turns left and right as it moves. Later I would want to scooter to follow a target, but […]
Animating VRoid Facial Texture Changes in Unity
Some expressions involve changing the face structure (a smile is created by a blend shape) while others involve changing the texture of the face (like blushing). The following describes my current plans to fade between textures for blushing and other expressions that work by changing the texture of a material. Multiple Textures In order to […]
Changing Facial Expressions (part 3)
I recently shared a blog post on a Unity script I am experimenting with to add ARKit compatible expressions to VRoid characters. Of course the day after, another tool became available that could have saved me quite a bit of hair pulling! Lol! I thought I would write up my brief experience with Hana_Tool and […]
Animating Hand Poses in Unity
I have described challenges in animating facial expressions in a previous post. Facial expressions are based on “blend shapes” to adjust the shape of the face (e.g. move eye brows lower to indicate anger). Animating hand positions is different as it relates to moving bones rather than blend shapes. There are two ways to animate […]
Changing Facial Expressions (part 2)
I previously wrote a post on Changing Facial Expressions where I went through the basics of how to control facial expressions in Unity. Since then I have made some progress in terms of adding additional blend shapes and based on that, I think I have finalized how I will do facial expressions for characters. I […]
Generating iFacialMocap Blend Shapes in Unity for VRoid Characters
I have been exploring iFacialMocap, an iOS app that uses the iPhone “ARKit” library to convert facial expressions into a series of movements. These can be sent to Unity so your character inside Unity follows what is being recorded on your iPhone. A challenge however is the iOS ARKit library uses more blendshapes than come […]
Speech Bubbles in Unity
One of the projects I plan to undertake is to create a cartoon series using “web stories”, a format for browsing through visual content on the web. It is particularly convenient on a mobile device, with most content vertical. Web stories support static images and video clips, with single tap to continue on to the […]
