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Texturing is...difficult. :-/

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I'm not sure how much I'll be able to complete by tonight (I have to go to work today, so that knocks me down 3 hours), but I'll keep doing as much as I can!

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Here she is with face and hair. By the way, I used this tutorial to help make the hair and this reference image for the facial size and textures. I think she looks much better than before. :-)

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Okay, I was out of commission there for a while due to a dead monitor. But I've been able to borrow one and I'm back in business! I met with Anne yesterday and she helped me pin down (tupu pins, ha!) the kind of outfit that an upper-middle class female in Kuzco might have worn. I have run across several issues, though (apart from my dead monitor):

• Clenching teeth in the original model. I'll try to go in and fix this. I guess I didn't notice them as much when she was blue. While I'm in there, I could try and scale the head to make it more round too...
  
• "Swishing" skirts and shawls. The only way to have these cloth pieces move in real-time (inside Ogre) is to use a physics engine. Meaning, I can model them, but if I do, they will not "swish" as the woman walks. So, I think my current plan of attack will be to model the fixed clothing items (belt, headband, pouch tucked in belt, sandals), and then see how much time I have left from there to work with the physics.
• Potential clipping of polygon meshes, specifically between her hair and her head. When I go to attach the model to a skeleton, I'm guessing the hair is going to have a ridiculous mind of its own and clip through her head in odd ways. Either I can paint waits to try and fix this, or the hair strips could be simulated in real-time with the physics engine (along with the skirt and shawl.

I hope she doesn't look like she's wearing make-up. I actually pulled her eyes right off of an image of a pretty Peruvian woman. :-) Maybe I'll try to lighten the eyelashes a bit.

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Haha, just kidding. :-)

The ear sticking out...might not have been such a good idea...(makes her look kind of elfy). But I'll leave it for now. Onto the next step!

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She's blue as a tribute to James Cameron's Avatar. (Also blue makes it easier to see bald patches through the hair). The polygon count might have suffered a bit from this...