ForestCat | VRChat Avatar

This anthro Kitty was my first try at making a character completely from scratch and bringing him into VR (specifically VRChat). For this I made the Concept Art, Sculpting, Retopology, Textures, Rigging (inlcuding Rig) and setup for VR in Photoshop, Blender, Substance Painter & Designer and Unity.
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The focus here was on making this an easy to use, feature rich and adjustable product.
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Here are some of the features and content for this avatar:
- 4 different Base Textures (2 Leopard variants, 2 Tiger variants)
- Toggleable Expressions, Antlers and Clothing including Blendshapes to minimize clipping
- MMD (Miku Miku Dance) Compatibility (requires specific Blendshapes for facial animation)
- Face Tracking animated by Jerry's VRCFT Templates using unified expressions (similar system to FACS)
- Physbones for Ears and Tail (physics simulation system for bones from VRChat)
- VRM Model for VTubing with VSeeFace, Liv, etc. for all 4 Texture variants (Virtual Reality Model, VRM, is a gltf based format for creating shareable avatars for VR, common for VTubers)
- VRCFury, GoGo Loco & Poiyomi Shader (Mostly VRChat specific packages: VRCFury for easier adjustment of Avatar with assets and toggles. GoGo Loco for additional movement options and adding premade poses and animations. Poiyomi Shader is a stylized Shader most common for VRChat avatars)
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This Avatar is also available to buy both on Gumroad and Jinxxy:
https://mattcatart.gumroad.com/l/ForestCat
https://jinxxy.com/MattCat/ForestCat

Render in Blender

Render in Blender

MMD dance animation in VRChat

Render in Blender with background from JoeyJazz

Render in Blender with background from JoeyJazz

Texture Variants

Texture Variants

Original Concept Art, in order of creation from left to right, top to bottom

Original Concept Art, in order of creation from left to right, top to bottom

Wireframe (~40k triangles with clothing, ~28k without)

UV Layout

UV Layout