The Techrunner & Cyber Sword

(There are more pictures if you keep scrolling down)

This was my very first character model, and all the content and designs you see are completely original, made from the ground up by me. I had to teach myself how to build a character while I was building it. I also made the sword for him.  He is rigged and textured and animated. I also did the camera work for the animation.  I used geometry nodes and shader nodes to create the after images and glitching effect on the blade. The rig uses a mix of IK (inverse kinematics) and wiggle bones.

When I first made him I was less experienced and I hand modeled all 17,435 vertices for the character, and 5,670 vertices for the sword. I am more experienced now so I would not hand model like this today since hand modeling is inefficient, however, because I did so much of it, I understand the geometry and topology of 3D models extremely well. That is why I can confidently say that this character is game ready and I plan to use him in the future.

Check out the dev log below to learn more about my process.