5/13/2022
Karmichael the chameleon shows off his camouflaging ability and does a little dance at the end.
I had to change the render settings while it was rendering to finish on time. That is why the lighting in the first shot changes slightly and the video dips in quality. I will probably render it again later.
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I modeled everything in the video and the textures were found online. The picture with the Swem sheep was from W&M Libraries' Facebook. I used a scale texture for a bump map on the chameleon. I had to use the UV editor to fix each of the textures in the video.
I rigged the chameleon and created controllers to move its limbs. All the light green objects in the image above are the controllers. Trying to make the chameleon in a natural way was very painful. The graph editor really helped with smoothening its movements.
When the chameleon was first rigged, the joints had too much influence over the chameleon's skin. I found you adjust the skin weights yourself buy painting them.
Textures used:
Lizard: https://www.stockvault.net/data/2012/07/08/132475/preview16.jpg
Sweep: https://www.facebook.com/wmlibraries/photos/a.10150093082529175/10160483421444175/?type=3&eid=ARDyI00LGR-s_GaBe6sd2VUGU_Q6vE-22w2PqehFk7N7yiDZ5K7nX3wiLSjlgRnM58SW4eEe72bmW-DY&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA_-WVw7s1orepwJpbbWUYwxWvDZQ1bVk70cC6rJHU_nF3ZIXHT1XPoPGfWJwsmFPunK7L7knCo-6D3WAGV8uWAZWiEC-m4OD6Qj20QvVkoO-KcbH2YZUWLXZNaUdrxRQXoMcjNDkrDpeR_-rp_Ce5tFrl6XwUJc4hCXolNo-pD5UQhVbvERFTB9Iq55-7K-kN-n6LkkwiwyXyiiwcd3BjU2nzL5TiAg-sSw0uxO5gzPYxllHx_JiwTTQu_9HS2BMKVGbAzI91nY32JZc4Dd4hla2i-PNkeX87UTCVtzhNpqoDUCEU&__tn__=EHH-R