Samien Comes To Life

Work on our character, Samien, is progressing! He's been rigged and skinned, which generally involves building a skeleton to allow movement and joining the model to that skeleton. Now work can start on the animation, and indeed some rough work has already been done!

Here's a the first pass on his walk, run and jump animations.

Introducing Samien!

Most of the votes have been cast and they have given us a clear answer. The main character will now be known as Samien. But players won't know this until halfway through the game ;).

Here are the concepts for Samien and a great snapshot of his model's work-in-progress.