Thanks again to Alistair Murphy for his help and feedback during this project.  With his suggestions I went back into the UV layout and condensed everything into just one map instead of the previous two maps.  I think I will still stick with a 256×256 texture for now. The first round of animations will only have Mr. Hap walking, running and otherwise doing full-body actions.  There won’t be a need for any closeups of the head just yet.  Even so, I made sure to give the head much more texture space than the rest of the body.

So, what’s next?  Rigging, my friends, rigging.

After setting up the UVs last night, I couldn’t resist jumping into Photoshop and laying down some quick colours just to see how Mr. Hap would look.  These are 512 maps so, the detail isn’t fantastic, but not bad.

I am finalizing the UV map.  I just thought I would post what I have come up with, before going back in and tweaking.  After taking these screengrabs, I think I’ll go back and cut the shirt and pants into two UV shells.  That way I can paint either without the risk of the textures bleeding into one anther, not to mention it will just be easier to paint near the edges of each shell.

I Used a combination of cylindrical and planar projection maps so far.  The hands need to be redone, however.  I think I relaxed the UVs to much after separating the UVs in a weird way only to have to sew them back together.  It got a bit warped.  Will fix and move onto the head.