short film : character and scenery test.

[kaykay]

Any comments?

[Roman]

ah! kay-kay is back,

You going off from your low-poly look? ;) Moon and materials look good. Character looks good, although I would add a nice specular to the glass (a square cartoony one, or soap bell kind). Not sure about his head though, could be more "exotic" maybe. Maybe show a profile or 3/4 shot. Stars could be better also. looking forward seeing it in motion!

[kaykay]

Ah, thanx.

It's a colaboration project, so that's why it's not all square and stuff. Thanx for noticing :)

Good point about the stars, I will do something about those when it's rendering time. Same for the specular, I allready changed the material of the glass because the line is just a but dull. Good tips, keep 'm comming.

I'm working on the animation, but it's not going very fast...

Thanx again for the comments.

[lulaassassina]

Lovely. Nothing to crit.

[koroko]

Glad to see some work of you again,

As for comments,

I love the plasteline feeling on the soft parts of the char...

What about some color variation/contrast, think of the chest thing as red with strong simple reflection...

I´m definetly for the specular idea of roman on the bubble, that and the thin silhoutte could look cool

And some pointy-triangle ears on top of that head? that could help to add some more to the head...

From curiosity,

Location:Spain, Hows that? vacation or moving into the sunny side?


Keep showing us pls...

[kaykay]

Thanks!

I was planning some more texture detail on the character, but I'm having some problems with changing the UV's and stuff after the model allready has been rigged. I found several solutions to the problem but it will have to wait until after I finish the animation.

Reflective space suit? Yeah, I was thinking about a hammered chrome velvet mix style when I started... we'll see.

Spain? Yeah, I was planning to move there when I registered here. Unfortunatly the job in Granada didn't happen so I'm not actually in Spain at the moment... I'll get there eventualy tho :)

[LuWeeWu]

I like the cheese earting grin on his face. I agree that the stars need work. I do alot of space stuff for work and something ive noticed that make stars more realistic is makin some tiny specks with noglow and then some a little larger with a litte glow. And you want to push it some more the throw a little yellow blue or red in the dim stars (not very much).

Cheers!

[kaykay]

At the moment the stars are 2d, just a little photoshop noise :)

How do you go about making 3d stars LuWeeWu?

[kaykay]

http://www.kay-kay.com/dump/Progressdump_02.jpg

Here's a little update, it has improved a bit I think. It's a frame from the animation (which is allmost finished), I gues it looks a bit weird as a still.

I haven't been able to get the specualr square on the helmet yet, the method I tried looked nice in a still but it's location was odd when the character moves around. So that's off the menu. The stars in the background might change as well, I asume they're too small to be visible (without jittering) on a tv.

Shoot with the comment :)

[wik.sys]

Excellent!

[Ian Jones]

The updated colour scheme and tweaks are great! keep it up.

[elfling bard]

That's look like a funny work, what is the story for it? Great cartooning!

[mimo8]

looking forward

the moon looks a bit too pale for my taste
but hurray - kaykay back on the track :)))

[Roman]

All looks way more solid now, looking forward to the animation, anymore characters involved?

[kaykay]

Yeah, the moon is a bit overlit... hmm...

There's no other characters, but there is a sandwich .. and it's EVIL !:)

[Roman]

ahkewl, a sandwich to take over the WORLD!! hmmm,.. moon!

How long is it, the short?

Moon looks good to me though (in the new image), should be abit overlit.

[MikaelPersson]

Looks interesting this. Good stylized models. I guess I dont have that much crit-wise to add, most of it has been taken up already.
I would suggest to make the stars larger though, will jitter like hell that on a normal TV.
A suggestion for your window highlight would be to use a normal texture projection and link that to the angle of the camera.

[kaykay]

Stars larger, noted. Maybe I should add some more variation in size aswell. Hmmm....

I've tried the projected speculatr square thing, or something similar. It works, but it isn't pretty.

I'll add a link to your site from my site Roman, you got some cool shit!

[3D_Mike]

~idd he does.

Great model dude, look forward to seeing the animation. If its as crazy as your other stuff, Im sure Ill love it :)

[kaykay]

Thanks Mike, I love the gold-ish shading on your robot... very nice.

[Roman]

Hej thanks for the comment, I'll have your link on my site also, if you dont mind, been keeping an eye on your great work for some time now :)

Any updates? Animation yet?

[3D_Mike]

yes please :)

[kaykay]

Here's a little clip,

(xvid)

http://www.kay-kay.com/spaceman_clip.avi

[lulaassassina]

Kay-Kay, how can I tell you this...
Let me try:

hahem!....
OMG!!! This is beautiful!!!
When you finish it, send it to me, I want to be the first one!

One of the best CG cartoon animations a ever saw.

Go for it, your the man!

[kaykay]

Thanx man, I appriciate that.
It should be finished around end of April/beginning of May. Of course then I still have to do them music and the sound effects.

I'll let you know when there's more.

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