Bard
This is another character I made for the game "Flooded". It's made in Blender, I modeled, animated, textured and rigged the model myself. We needed a character in our game to guide the player and give them their first quest. We also wanted an NPC to lighten the mood a bit so we decided we wanted one that plays the guitar (with actual guitar sounds). This is also a nice way to not break immersion by making an NPC make the actual in game music.
This is "the bard" an NPC in the game "Flooded". This is the fully finished model.
*I did not make the model or textures for the guitar.
I started with the base model of "Bob", because we wanted a coherent look trough out the characters in the game.
I added the mask and the hat, which make this model look different form the bard so you can see that there's a clear difference between them.
After the modelling I did the UV editing by assigning seams and laying out the UV map.
Now I painted on the textures by hand and assigned materials to the things that have a solid color, to make life a bit easier for me.
Next was rigging the character. I always use riggify, a free extension for Blender, because it's a lot easier and faster then creating the rig yourself.
I added the guitar another person in my group made and animated the character to give him his classic guitar playing animation.