Thanks Colin, that gives me some idea of the problems that will be involved.
I was going to take your model straight in to Mixamo to see if it will rig before going any further, but I can’t open your file as I’m on Make. If you know of a SKP to FBX converter, I could try that.
I’ve tried tracing over the image myself, but that layers a white plane on top of the image, obscuring the image. Something very basic I’m not getting here most likely. However, what I did learn from that test is that tracing over the image with the freehand tool likely isn’t going to be precise enough to be workable, at least not without a lot of careful attention.
So now I’m wondering if there is a way to easily select just the image, assuming a PNG file with transparent background. I found this thread. Not sure about the easy part.
I notice DAZ has a feature where you can add a face photo on to a 3D model. Not sure how well it works, and it’s apparently Windows only. And DAZ is, well, not all that much fun in general.
It might be a selling point for SketchUp if users could create models of themselves to include in their scenes, but maybe SketchUp isn’t really the right tool for such operations? If so, I’m cool with that. Just trying to be creative and experimental and so on…