Character: Plucky duck

[Cyn]

Looks great! show more expressions please!

[emilioG]

I'm at work right now, but I'll try to make more tonight:D

[Chong]

Wow, that's looking nice

[SheepFactory]

awesome!

I have no crits , I love cartoony more than anything.

keep posting :thumbsup:

Ali

[jscheel]

Really great! Are you going to stay with normal rendering conventions, or are you going to render with a toon shader?

[emilioG]

I thought I'd go 3D. It'll give him a new perspective.I made sure he's really expressive. Well, as close as possible to Plucky's 2D version as I can get. Seems to be working out.:D

The whole toon shade thing doesn't appeal to me 'cause of one major reason. When something is drawn in 2D, the lines shake. From cell to cell, no one can draw it perfectly. And that's what bothers me about toon shading. it's too perfect. There's no volume loss, the lines are perfect, and they also seem to disappear wrong. The 2D artist has the choice of making a line disappear when he feels like it. For us, the computer chooses to over a Z-buffer technique, or so I think!

Enough incoherent rambling from me. :p

So, 3D it is.:thumbsup:

[Flog]

YAY!!!
I wanna push da button

Great work!!! Love the Plucky. Man I have not seen Tiny Toons in forever. I used to love it so much. Great work you did here.

:applause: :applause: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Taoizm]

Baby Plucky was the best. Toot-toot go down the hoooole. :)


Diaper came BACK!!

the model looks ace, and I can't wait to see more expressions. :applause:

[OZ]

ARE U THE GOD OF CUTE CHARACTERS??????? :eek:

[Beerma]

Great Plucky!!! I was wondering if u made him for fun or for some kind of project...

[Remi]

Nice job...look like a fun character to play around with...:thumbsup:

[mister conehead]

nice character. Looks a little bit like a green family member of Donald Duck. The expressions are cool. Especsscially the teeth.

I want an animation of this duck :thumbsup:

[Zanith]

In your first pic, it would be so cute if his jaw was hitting the floor or something - giving him a look of shock or amazement. LOL!

[NanoGator]

:applause:

Good job capturing Plucky's character!

[kukukiki74]

It is soooo cute that I had to burst into laughs.... Nice model. I am totally amazed! :bounce:

[fleetwood64]

he looks kinda high poly to be in a game...

[monotypic]

fleetwood64: did anyone say he was gonna be in a game?

[Shootr]

Great Plucky! seems dead on accurate.

What is this going to be used for?
Are you doing other TT characters?

-shootr

[MaDSheeP]

lol! plucky!

i love that cartoon... they need to release it on dvd! :)

[Stephen Vyas]

Nicely Done.:thumbsup:
It's good to see someone else doing cartoony characters.

Cheers
Steve

[spr0g]

hehe... cool

[MaTibay520]

Shweet. I wish they brought back Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. Maybe in 3D?

[pOiNtPuShEr]

Keep your final fantasy, ultra human stuff (no offense to any1!) The cartoony stuff rules (IMHO). I love the fact that this thing looks obviously unreal, but totally touchable (not just the render either, but the volumes also). Can we see a wire? GREAT WORK!!!

[facial]

Nice Skin and figure here, Keepost up more. :thumbsup:

[Daniel]

Haha nice :)

I have a litle rubber thing...Ehhh...it's a Plicky Duck head on a Star.. :rolleyes:

I already modelt it. But right now I can't send out big files :annoyed:

May I show later :p

Cya.

[LordShaitan]

Great job, brings me back.....

[thedaemon]

I like it, he was one of my favorite characters from tiny toons. Keep the images coming please. I am interested in more facial expressions. Great likeness!:applause:

[chudofsinister]

Very nice, you got the volumes right and he looks really good. Alot of times when people do cartoony characters they dont look very solid, no weight. This guy does. Can you explain how you light him, and what is the specific setup you use. Thanks, and nice piece.

[sforsyth]

Aw man, that's classic! Like most others, I usually dig the cartoony stuff most of all. I agree with chudofsinister, the sense of volume and weight with him is great. And I don't think that's solely down to the brazil style render. Well done! :thumbsup:
I'd love to see an animation of him.
This is the type of stuff that makes you want to get down and do a new character. Cheers!

[Michael Chen]

I got to say, its cool and cute at the same time. :)

[Robbert]

Cool cute and cartoony character!! great work,, i would like too see that duck animated. :buttrock:

[insseuv]

i like him, very goog mod... Is it possible to make a wire renderer please ??:bounce:

[Francis]

Excellent work dude. I can't wait to see the finished expressions and animation!

:thumbsup:

[Scooby]

Good job. I also enjoy seeing the cartoon stuff. Do you have it rigged up for Squash ans stretch to simulate 2D animation style movement?

Keep up the good work.

[Nicodemus]

Sweet...just too sweet. One more request to see the wire frame here.

Leslie

[emilioG]

just got to work. Wow, I have to say you're all great!!! Thank you for all the comments.
answering questions:
1) Lightracer( fake radiosity)
2) squash and stretch implemented (props to Paul Neale for teaching me. remember that name boys)
3)3d or not 3d? 3d. No toon shader, it would NEVER do 2d plucky justice.
4) thanx!

I read all of them (duh!)
Wireframe!!!! ok ok! hee hee! Chong's gonna grab 2 avi's and upload them to his site for me.
1 is a turnaround and the other an, and I can't stress this enough, UNFINISHED walk cycle. heheh.
I'll be uploading pics every minute or so, so stay tuned!
:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[emilioG]

planning something bad bad bad!!!:p

[cuse]

this is awesome... more plucky please :bounce:


cuse

[emilioG]

mad!

[emilioG]

scared

[emilioG]

dear zanith. way ahead of you partner! Jaw dropping.

still have to rig it on.

[emilioG]

just mixed up tons of targets...

[cuse]

haha that tongue is fantastic!!!

:applause:


cuse

[emilioG]

BIG THANX TO CHONG


here are the links for anim:

http://marcofoglia.50megs.com/pluckboy_.avi
http://marcofoglia.50megs.com/Plucky_walk_.avi

BIG THANX TO CHONG

CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!! I LooooOOOOOoove yyyou!!!
lol


:xtreme::xtreme::xtreme:

[Chong]

lol...:beer:

[cuse]

i think the walk looks great... but the first one looks like his head should be held on from above with a string like a puppet :)

more!!!


:thumbsup:

cuse

[PEN]

Ducks, ducks, ducks and more ducks. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh theres too many ducks!

Emilio will know what I mean. Great job man!

[Scooby]

Wow Thank for the Pics!

Does this Paul Neale that you mentioned have a website or tutorials giving insight into toon character rigging and modeling to suit the range of movment needed (ie your great drop jaw tounge on floor bit!)?

I Love the images you have posted but I suggest using a different color from green, or muted green so that Plucky reads against the background a bit better to create a more contrasting sillhouette.

:)

[emilioG]

his expressiveness is my doing. Although I'm sure Paul could pull it off.

Paul gave me some tricks. Not to put him down, at all, on the contrary, he's a Max Guru in my book, but this character is my doing.

Bookmark this, it's Paul's homepage:

http://members.rogers.com/paulneale/

Always some good stuff there. Great scripts for characters. He's actaully working on an AVI tutorial. rigging a character from start to finsh. THAT is gonna be badass.
:buttrock:

as for me, my page is down. no more for now.:thumbsdow

[mikey11]

Nice work Emile...love the walk cycle and the angry expression!

[unexit]

That looks great..... although Im quite partial to Hamton the pig.

[emilioG]

aaaaaah, we got a hampton lover over here. die!!! heheh, kidding. Plucky and Hampton are best friends so... I'll let you go just this one time!:scream: :p

Hampton rocks!

Is it wrong that I find babs sexy??? (kidding)
:love:

[mister conehead]

The duck rocks! :buttrock:

Can't you let him fall over his own feet? That would look very funny I think.

[HieSpike]

I'm sorry...but I don't get it.
It looks real cute and nice.....
but it's not even an original character or design.
It's a straight copy of the duck....very similar to the bart 3D we saw years ago on the simpsons.

Again I"m sorry emilioG...I don't want to be venting on your post, but this gets *****'s?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Peace out,
Kane
:surprised

.....and he puts the gun to his head.

[emilioG]

well HieSpike, everyone's entitled to their own opinions. That's cool man.
:D

[emilioG]

I like to do both. As you can see in my avatar, I do do my own things. I just Love Plucky, simple as that.
:)

[Nicodemus]

Buster rocks.......!!!! Whats the name of the weird little green guy, you know the crazy one that does not speak?

Originally posted by emilioG
aaaaaah, we got a hampton lover over here. die!!! heheh, kidding. Plucky and Hampton are best friends so... I'll let you go just this one time!:scream: :p

Hampton rocks!

Is it wrong that I find babs sexy??? (kidding)
:love:

[Chong]

the dodo bird? i dont remeber his name

[emilioG]

it was gogo the dodo:D

[HieSpike]

emilioG,
I completely respect you for doing Plucky.
I'm a huge fan of the show....my fav is Pinky (and the Brain..of course).
I'm just confused by the rating system in here...
I'm just confused in general....
and maybe a bit jealouse...

oh well...c'est la vie.

Kane
:shrug:

[emilioG]

yeah, I'd have to agree. The rating system is probably based on several things. Art, technical, number of posts, how good they are, etc.

I think in the end it's: does it turn your nob or not?! hee hee!

talk to you later man.

Like you would say,
Peace!:cool:

[nervous_twitch]

Rock on. This absolutely rules, I love plucky.

I don't believe people are so indoctrinated not to realize real skill when they see it. So busy criticizing, it's sad. Plucky has never been done in 3d before, and it takes real skill to get a likeness of someone else's character.

[Totitch]

Amazing stuff!

Great adaptation!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

The walk cycle needs a little more work! Move hips a little more!To have a little swaying! For the moment, he is not walking as good as he can ! To rigid!

But you made a great great work!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[tvtuna]

Originally posted by nervous_twitch
Rock on. This absolutely rules, I love plucky.

I don't believe people are so indoctrinated not to realize real skill when they see it. So busy criticizing, it's sad. Plucky has never been done in 3d before, and it takes real skill to get a likeness of someone else's character.


I don't believe it's that at all, I also found it odd that everyones
gone so ape about this, and yet in the same forum someones
made an original character, animated him, and used him in a
short story and got... 2 replies. hehe.

Plucky..
I think it's a good model, and it looks like him, and it's not
a criticism to say when something doesn't rock your boat.

Not trying to be downbeat, it does look good, and ( apart
from animation ), theres not a lot further you could take it
apart from putting him in a scene.

Shouldn't unfinished animation be taken to the WIP Forum btw?

Cheers for now.

[cuse]

good point, i think people blew up about it so much cause it was on te front page wasnt it??? also, it is well modelled and its a character a lot of people probably grew up with so theres memories there as well.

anyway, it might be a wip animation but it isnt a wip model which i believe is what it was posted as
:scream:

hehe


cuse

[GUYJIN]

Looking good bro! Really good :)

But than again.... what else is new?

[emilioG]

I Love critics.

Cuse. That's right. he was posted as a character. I don't want to start a new thread on an animation that's unfinished, when I know it's unfinished.

TVTuna: I grew up with Plucky too, and that's why I modeled him. I have him tatooed on my back, and that's how much I Love that character.


Unless a post is constructive criticism, it should be posted. whether it's here or on any other post.

As for originality, like I said b4, i do both. I like making characters that are 100% mine, and I also Love making characters that I've always loved. Simple. That's what usually happens. For example, when a song gets remixed, especially in techno, it's 'cause the person REALLY likes it.

I got the chance to do Harley Quinn for DC Comics in 3D. And for the record, I welcomed it BIGTIME (Guyjin did the Joker, good man! What's up buddy!).

I Love Plucky. End of Story.:buttrock:

[chudofsinister]

Did you do the 3D versions for UBisoft, for a game or for a comic?

[emilioG]

for Ubisoft. It's actually on Tshirts too! hihihi

[emilioG]

here:

[ewanderson75]

Hey emilio,
Love your stuff - the Plucky rocks! Are you ever going to update your website? I've had it bookmarked for years! - e

PS - nice to see you posting in here.

[emilioG]

"Time is always against us" chuckle chuckle!

I'm sorry man. Soon, very soon.
:)

[JBoskma]

:thumbsup: aah great :D I luv it dude haha. Didn't this duck popped up in Ducktales or Darkwing Duck a few times too? :P

[emilioG]

nope. Disney (Darkwing/ducktales) and WB(TinyToons) don't mix.
How cool would that be though!??!

Thanx!:beer:

[chudofsinister]

I have your models then, we got them for when we did that abomination Gotham City Racer. I studied them, very cool. I made a halflife version of the Mr.FReeze guy.

[emilioG]

FYI:

I grabbed some sound clips from the videos I have (I Love them) to animate some stuff and CHONG will be putting up an animation very soon. It's really nice. GREAT animator.:xtreme:

[Heber G Conde]

Fantastic Man!
I´d never seen such a good adaptation.
The poses are great too, the model looks flexible as a drawing.
Congratulations
Heber

[GUYJIN]

Originally posted by emilioG
nope. Disney (Darkwing/ducktales) and WB(TinyToons) don't mix.
How cool would that be though!??!

Thanx!:beer:

Guess who did Mr.Freeze....:beer:

[gL_spear]

Excellent, you gotta love this guy :D

[piajartist]

nice render

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