I started this project about a month ago, and finally Pearl and Wipples are together. There are definitely some issues to fix with the character models; Pearl's clothing does not follow the rig through space, so I had to manually put her dress back on. Wipples' whiskers are clipping through his face and his fur is nearly pitch black in spite of setting the material color to grey. The kitchen environment is a work in progress with further adjustments needed for color, composition, and scale. The lighting is very temporary as well.
Regardless, it feels like a huge accomplishment to have made it this far. This is the most complex thing I have ever created in Blender and I have learned so much. Given the complexity of this single frame, I have a sinking feeling that animating the full short may be beyond my capabilities. I'll still go as far as I can, but wrangling those Rigify rigs just to get a static pose was quite challenging. At minimum, I intend to get a previz animation as well as a couple gorgeous renders.
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I took a couple days off to assemble the new PC (henceforth known as BEEFMASTER). I needed to order some extra parts, so in the meantime I progressed with Pearl as much as I reasonably can on the laptop. As with Wipples, there was an incredible amount of new stuff in this. Her skin is a mixture of procedural and hand-painted textures, and I baked her normals from a multiresolution sculpt. Her clothes are multiple cloth simulations that all interact with one another (and hopefully the rig ; ;). She has a rigify rig, but her facial deformations aren't quite what I was hoping for. I'll have to noodle with that and see if I can get something workable, otherwise I will resort to shapekeys. The blocky hair will get replaced with particles once I get BEEFMASTER up and running. I definitely underestimated how long a character model like this would take, lol.
I did try to get some mocap data on her, but that's a whole separate skill I need to learn. HOWEVER, I am strongly considering animating Pearl with mocap (either through VR capture or Rokoko) to save myself some time.