In the past two days I was mostly working on creating the rig for Morthor, although that rig won’t be used for creating in-game animations, since I’m not sure if there is a way to export characters and their animations from Maya to be used with Source engine. If it is at all possible (and my only doubt about it is in regards to blendshapes, since XSI and Maya work a bit differently with them, and Half Life 2 works with XSI’s way, which uses clusters), I hope there is a tutorial that explains how this is done, and I hope to find it! Anyhow, this Maya version of Morthor will be used for creating some short animations for trailer, if nothing else. Besides, I’m just going through the excellent Art of Rigging book and I need to practice creating rigs, nothing wrong with that, right?

So, without further ado, here’s the render compilation of Morhtor, as posted on ModDB in Pandaemonium gallery:

I had the most fun with the All * Star shoes. For my next model, I’ll probably try out something more fancy and fantastic, because all the models I made so far are pretty much just regular people, maybe a bit stylized, but nothing fancy after all. Or maybe I’ll make a soldier. Yeah, that might be the case, because I’m hooked on Call of Duty, and now I’m even getting scared of somebody around opening a soda can – oh wait, it’s a granade, rruuuunnnn!!! =]