Character Models

Work-in-progress rigged human characters for our games, from crowds to close-up cutscenes (the first game is a fantasy real-time strategy game): male and female base bodies on one shared game skeleton, with facial expressions, ARKit-style face shapes and visemes, customisation sliders, hair and brow options, poses, hand grips and animation clips. Everything runs in your browser.

Character pages

Customise the face and body, switch hair, brows and lashes, try expressions, poses and hand grips.

CharacterFemaleFace and body sliders, randomise, every hair style, brows and lashes, expressions, poses, hand grips · 71 MB

CharacterMaleFace and body sliders, randomise, every hair style and beard, brows and lashes, expressions, poses, hand grips · 82 MB

Look-dev pages

Animation clips with play and scrub, every face shape and viseme, hand grip presets, lighting and shading modes.

Look-devFemaleAnimation clips, every face shape and viseme, hair and brow pieces, hand grips, lighting and shading modes · 72 MB

Look-devMaleAnimation clips, every face shape and viseme, hair, beard and brow pieces, hand grips, lighting and shading modes · 83 MB

Armour pages

The armoured knight is being rebuilt piece by piece; the helm is the first piece in.

Knight helm

ArmourKnight helmThe knight helm (broad gold trim with gold vents) on the male body, with the look-dev tools; helm mesh generated with Hitem3D · 44 MB

Using the viewers

Each page downloads its models when it opens (44-83 MB, compressed without losing detail); give it a moment on slower connections.
Drag to orbit, right-drag to pan, scroll to zoom. A current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari works best.
Character pages: Customise and Randomise for the face and body sliders, the expression buttons (Smile, Wink, Talk...), the pose buttons (Squat, Lunge, Kneel, Sit, Fists...) and the hand-pose menu (sword, hammer, knife, bow grips...).
Look-dev pages: the Animation menu, Hands camera, lighting and shading modes, and the Shapes tab for every face shape. The knight helm page is a look-dev page: the helm can be switched off and on in the Pieces tab.

Work in progress

Hair: the rebuilt hair set is in (braid, crop, tousled, tied-back, ponytail and bun, with beards and stubble on the male); close-up polish is still going on.
The hand grips are new; some finger contacts are still being tuned.
The armoured knight is being rebuilt piece by piece: the helm is in (its own page); the rest of the armour and the other outfits (archer, peasant, mage) are not in this preview yet.

What comes from MakeHuman, and what is ours

The bodies start from the free (CC0) MakeHuman base assets, loaded with the MPFB Blender add-on at build time. The body mesh keeps MakeHuman's topology (armour and clothes are fitted to it); its shape comes from MakeHuman's own sliders at values we chose. Everything that turns it into a game character is built by our pipeline.

Area	From MakeHuman (CC0)	Built by us
Body mesh	Base mesh and topology; shape from its sliders (gender, muscle, weight, proportions, face targets)	The chosen settings, pose-driven corrective shapes (shoulders, armpits, groin, elbows), reworked skin weights, body split into 18 regions for armour
Rig	Joint placement and skin weights of the default MakeHuman rig	97-bone game skeleton (engine-style hierarchy, twist and helper bones, face rig), shared male/female rest pose, foot-contact solver, hand-grip library
Face	ARKit 52 face shapes and 15 visemes (community packs by Mika Suominen)	Fixes (eye sockets, closed lids, wink, brows and lashes following the lids, lip seal), expression presets, talk demo
Customisation	Raw face and body targets	Two-way sliders, carried onto every part (brows, lashes, hair, clothing), skeleton refit for extreme shapes
Parts	Eyes, 12 eyebrow styles, 4 lash sets, tongue, the bob / long / ponytail / short hair styles	28-tooth dentition and gums, eyeball + clear cornea split, crop and braid grooms, beards, a new hair system in progress
Skin	Base skin colour textures	Normal maps from a subdivided body, pores, roughness, ambient occlusion, grading, skin-tone variants
Clothing and armour	MPFB's fitting mechanism (pieces follow body shapes and inherit skin weights)	All the geometry, materials and heraldry (knight, archer, peasant), plus automated fit and intersection checks
Animation and poses	None	All clips, poses and grips
Export and viewers	None	glTF export and validation, QA tools, these viewer pages

Source

The pipeline that builds these characters is in source/: headless Blender scripts on top of MPFB and the CC0 MakeHuman assets, plus the web viewer templates. See the README there.