Here's Lucy's rig in Maya! 🖤

(nice alliteration in that title hehe :D)

Aesthetically pleasing poly-perfect-pixel UVs for your viewing pleasure 🍷

Deciding where geometry should be grid-locked and have curves implied in the *texture* VS making *curved* geometry with *straight* pixels running along it is an tricky thing to figure out sometimes! 📐

This was my first time animating in well over a year, so I was VERY rusty 😅 That said, my new character rig helped a lot! A big thing that worked with this new style too was opting for separated limbs instead of deformed topology (because I refuse to have pixel stretch lol) 🦊

Quick breakdown of the shield shader!
🔸 Panning noise + dithered transparency
🔸 Vert. offset for expansion
🔸 Vert. offset multiplied w/ above panning noise for wobble
🔸 Colour tint multiplied over fresnel emission

Some things to note!
🔸Make a 2nd UV set with your UVs laid out top>bottom so your noise will pan / flow in that direction!
🔸Smooth your normals + keep UV seams connected to stop your mesh breaking apart with the vert. offset