Wizard king (Collab) - Layerd Simulations
A friend (@wifiretina) and I wanted to collaborate on a project. We share similar interests in fashion and art. He told me about a book he read back in the day that inspired him a lot. It's called The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. The aesthetic combines a fantasy and sci-fi world. We took that as inspiration to create our character, The Wandering Wizardking. I sketched out a couple of silhouettes, and we got to work.
In this project, we tackled many challenges, like layered Vellum simulations: cloth sims for the clothing and hair sims for the golden tassels.
The biggest challenge on this project was simulating the tassels on top of the cloth sims because they would either intersect the garment or get stuck and tangle in between colliders.
The solution was to simplify the colliders to serve as proxies for the simulated mesh underneath. Converting the pants to VDB and back gave me a simplified mesh that I could use as a base for the tassel simulation.
