Posted July 04, 2021 by gregosefo
Hi again! You probably noticed the picture above is different from my previous post. The updated image is courtesy of my friend Teyon (link). Last year I shared with him the idea for this project and my desired for the Mixamo character to be a black child. At the time, Teyon was working on his own personal He-Man sculpt, but volunteered to update the Mixamo texture for me. It turned out amazing and I'm really fortunate that he did this because it probably would have taken a lot for me to even get close to this result.
If you're wondering why I chose to changed the main character's skin color, the best answer that I can offer is that it just felt right to me. Given the opportunity to make a third-person game, I really wanted to have someone running around on screen that I felt connected to. This decision definitely made this project more meaningful to me and made me even more excited to get him doing some cool stuff. I hope that I'll be able to do right by him and I'm really excited to see where things go. Thanks for reading.