Character Design

Commissioner wanted a custom VRChat character made and had some ideas for a character. We collaborated together on the original character design. I drew the character from their ideas and they chose the colors.

I then created a layered reference to plan out the clothing pieces, body shape, and expressions that I planned to model onto the avatar. This made it a lot easier to be on the same page as the commissioner during the modeling process.

Avatar Creation

Because we had access to a similarly proportioned avatar with the rights to modify it, we utilized No.31 Sunrise by Tkmon as a reference. I used the original body shape and skeleton but heavily modified it to my needs. The head and all clothing was modeled from scratch.

The avatar was hand-textured in Substance Painter and Poiyomi Toon was used for the stylized materials on the avatar.

One of the most challenging aspects of creating this avatar was designing the ghost hand system. Both the avatar's normal arms and the ghost hands are using copies of the arm skeleton that track the arm's real position. When the ghost arms are enabled, the avatar's arms are replaced with a fake copy that goes into the avatar's pockets.

The finished avatar was delivered as a Unity-ready VRChat avatar package, including the custom model, materials, expressions, and animations.