CGTalk - Character: introducing you Ilooshka the Mouse

mushroomgod

10-31-2002, 10:55 PM

wow, he looks realy cool...nice job:thumbsup:

minor crit...he looks a little of balance in the last render

fellah

10-31-2002, 11:16 PM

wow, really nice character ila. alot of character in the character!

a couple of crits,
1. the hand texture looks weird. it looks like glows, yet not. it's a to abrubt ending on it at the wrist imo. maybe fade it out as you did on the stomach?

2. the ear texture, the black of it is in the center of the ear right now. maybe put the black in the "earhole" and then fade it out from there instead of the middle. hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

oh, and a little more highlights in the eyes will be very nice I think. right now they are a bit to black. at least in this scene.

anyway, it's a very good character, _very_ cute! :love:

take care
// fellah

ilasolomon

10-31-2002, 11:17 PM

Thank you Matthew :)
well, i really didn't understand the problem with balance in last pic. :hmm: would you explain more to me?...
best
then i think he need some stuff to play with!
ila

ilasolomon

10-31-2002, 11:26 PM

hey Anders my favorite Viking! :) thanx for comments...
ok, about the ears you are absolutley right!, also about the wrist
it should be faded ( i was lazy, sorry!)
& about the eyes, i will try some specular reflection on them, though i like them black!
i tried fur on the body, it was DISAPPOINTING!
best regards
ila

mushroomgod

10-31-2002, 11:41 PM

sure :)

if you look at the image (hope you dont mind me drawing on your render ;) ) ..

the blue line is your mouses center of gravity, but at the moment the mouse is following the red line.. his body is not in the center if his feet and it makes him look as if he is about to fall backwards...

the pose could be easley fixed by moving his left leg back a bit..

like i said though...its pretty monor, it might just be me noticing problems that arnt realy problems..

hope it helps :thumbsup:

ilasolomon

11-02-2002, 07:47 AM

hey Matthew, now i got it, thanx, i think it's because of POV, in left view seems it's balanced.

now a wire shot:

http://207.219.13.92/ila/temp/memouse_maxrender_test10_copy.jpg

Wiz

11-02-2002, 08:19 AM

what a cute guy :) also the wire looks great ,really clean :)
i must say the textue is WIERD ,but is soo cute :) i just love it
great job

tubby

11-02-2002, 11:27 AM

hello ila, that is an awesome character! really cool style, i love his proportions. Are you gonna animate him? I hope so it looks alive just in the stills; he's practically screaming to be animated. :)

Kulu_Kulu

11-02-2002, 03:51 PM

pretty cool man !! :thumbsup:

ciao
kulu

Adam

11-02-2002, 04:32 PM

looks great but the hand color is a little off from the rest of the yellow. Great charcter though and nice clean modeling.

Andy Boe

11-02-2002, 05:37 PM

nice work,

very funny! I wanna see more :rolleyes:

Andy

11-02-2002, 09:33 PM

datsa cute looking mouze. Those eyes look a bit overmuch uniformly black still, huh? a bit evil like me thinks.

Virtuoso

11-02-2002, 10:43 PM

You gave him that handle bar type moustache I suggested ila........ It was because of my suggestion huh ila...Huh...right....;) :)

He looks fun,clean work,next stop animation central...... nice job as always ila..........:beer:

ilasolomon

11-03-2002, 07:41 AM

Uri, thank you man :) texture is not very good but it's enough for now.
tubby sure, i do animate it soon! thank you, i like your style very much , looking forward for your upcoming short :thumbsup:
Kulu, Adam & Andy very special thanx to you :beer:
m@. hey! you got it Devil!, indeed he has a little evil inside! :twisted:
Virtuoso, sure that was your suggestion, always your opinions are welcome you know :) thanx a lot pal

regards
ila

DimSum

11-03-2002, 10:39 AM

Mushroogod--> i don't agree with you, the mouse is still on balance, coz you showed it yourself, the vertical of gravitation is still inside the foot's distance. He's a bit leaned on a feet, but it's still ok.

Frinsklen

11-03-2002, 12:14 PM

Hi Ila, good to see you back. Somehow I missed Ilooshka's WIP thread.

Looks really nice, great character design and very clean modeling.
yeah, he may look a bit off balance in the last render, I agree with mushroomgod. I think you should exaggerate the glow in his eyes, and I would also have made them more rounded. That's just an idea.

You know you have to animate this...
Don't forget to tell me when your mouse learns to move!

See you later

ilasolomon

11-03-2002, 09:48 PM

haha! hi Andres, good to see you again too. :thumbsup:
btw i think DimSum is right! ;)
well, forget about that cause now i'm rigging the character for animating.
(for me, the rigging for posing is different from animation rig.)
best
ila

tim THP

11-04-2002, 05:19 AM

Very cute!:thumbsup:

luv the little dali mustache!

definitely wanna see him moving

like the high level lighting!

b.Schulz

11-04-2002, 05:50 AM

Cool Mouse...yes please please animate him (unless you are a modeler only). My only crit is that his eyes are "too" shiny. Your call in the long run though.....looks like fun to me. :D

ilasolomon

12-01-2002, 10:52 PM

hello again
after being busy with this month challenge now I got some time to finish the Animation Rig Setup for Ilooshka, & this is a TEST pose, I know it's not very well-done yet, but I'm workin'. also I have problems with morphing facial exp. too ! (hope find good solutions sooon)
Regards
Ila

doggjaww

12-01-2002, 11:52 PM

he looks very smooth kinda plasticky.. its okay if that's what you wanted to wind up with.. maybe a little bumping to go with the extra neeto colors you got there.. :thumbsup:

ilasolomon

12-08-2002, 05:25 PM

RE-UPDATE!:
http://www.topleftpixel.com/ila_solomon/wip/images/ilooshka/ilooshka_11.jpg
just EYE expressions:
http://www.topleftpixel.com/ila_solomon/wip/images/ilooshka/ilooshka_09a.jpg
http://www.topleftpixel.com/ila_solomon/wip/images/ilooshka/ilooshka_09b.jpg

Frinsklen

12-08-2002, 06:58 PM

oops...

the post where I critiqued your walkcycle is lost... damn, it took me ages to write it.... :D

pity...

well... I dont think I'll write it again, so if you have any questions post them here, or mail me, or whatever. Maybe it's somewhere on you internet temp files.

waiting for more animations featuring Ilooshka the mouse!
:thumbsup:

Kananga

12-08-2002, 08:53 PM

very cool:thumbsup: Nice style!:beer:

DimSum

12-10-2002, 03:35 PM

Hello again,

I wanted to know if u planned to animate the whikers. Maybe your expressions would gain more 'intensity' when the moustaches 'follow' the eyes expressions e.g

Good work anyway !

ilasolomon

12-10-2002, 04:36 PM

yes Andres, but I try to remember what you said & correct that walk cycle & post again.
Kananga, thank you very much :)
DimSum, yes of course it should be like that, thank you anyway! :thumbsup:
Cheeers & Regards :beer:
Ila

CarlCampbell

12-10-2002, 05:55 PM

Argh! Its the eyes... something about them that bugs me! I think its cuz they're not so obvious at a quick glance... Also the teach should be more glossy, methinks, like china, as they're hard to make out/identify amongst the rest of the head and upper chest.

Carl :beer:

dreamchipper

12-10-2002, 06:25 PM

hi,
first of all a compliment, like it really much

have you ever thought about animating the ears ?
maybe you could exxagerate the facial expressions by that
when it looks "angry" the ears could turn around, point backwards and lay down on the head, like cats ears do
just something that came up to me when i saw it first
:)

ok, hope nobody said that before

nice work, great job
:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

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