Assignment 2: Character Design, Rigging and Animation

For this assignment Ive been asked to create a character, rig this character and then animate it.

The character Ive decided is animate and create is an Alien, your traditional grey alien. I choose this because one of the suggested ideas was to convert a 2D image/character into a 3D model. I started to look at South Park character, as this is one of my favorite shows. But thought that the model of would probably be a bit basic and not every good for rigging and animating. But then I seen the alien that is hidden in every episode and thought that I could add more detail than any of the main characters and it would be better suited to rigging.

I started to look up pictures of grey aliens online as reference material.

Here are some of those photos.