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HellBoy

01-04-2007, 07:29 PM

Hiya all

This is my serious character work (Cartoonish :hmm: ) that I plan to animate in the future. Its actually for my uni work, we're required to model a character so we'll rig him in the coming months. It's suppose to be a Maya work but I am using Max to model and Maya to rig.
Thanks to my no 2d skills, I have no concept design :sad:

I have a low and hi-res. for both in game and cinematics.

It started like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen01_uniwork.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen05_uniwork.jpg

but then I decided to model him in nude, so I can apply a cloth later.
Low Poly:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen04_uniwork.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen03_uniwork.jpg

This one is if I kept that pants and boots as part of the turso

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen06_uniwork.jpg

Low poly is 2762tris without head.

cheers

HellBoy

01-06-2007, 03:02 PM

here's a headless concept stuff :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/final_concept.jpg

By the way, he's a big hippy guy, that's all we know of him so far :D He just won't tell us he's name

Psyk0

01-06-2007, 06:50 PM

I personally wouldnt model the palms facing forward, at some point you'll probably have to put the arms in a relaxed pose and the mesh is going to twist horribly.

If you dont like your concept maybe googling a few pics for inspiration?, like the dad from the invincibles (and other cartoony stuff) would help.

HellBoy

01-06-2007, 07:11 PM

Thanks Psyk0

At first I modelled him in a relax T pose, then I was looking around in the CGPortfolio and saw you work, and though, hay why not make his arms just like yours :D but it ended up facing farward :argh:

Here's a new one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen07_uniworka.jpg

Just the arms is relaxed, nothing more

HellBoy

01-07-2007, 04:28 PM

Update:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen08_uniwork.jpg

ts-falcon

01-07-2007, 05:26 PM

nice progress so far. one thing i would reccomend lookign at is some examples of facial modeling with edge loops. as of right now your face seems rather grid like and wouldnt animate as niceley as one with proper topology. keep at'er!
Cheers

HellBoy

01-07-2007, 07:57 PM

Thanks ts_falcon. I'll do that as soon as possible

Here's a quick update:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen09_uniwork.jpg

HellBoy

01-12-2007, 10:34 AM

UPDATE:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/screen11_uniwork.jpg

The high version :eek:

Psyk0

01-12-2007, 05:41 PM

Hmm his forearms should bend from front to back, not up to down, makes his pose look very weird (like his arms are broken). The head is pretty good, altho he suffers from pinched mouth syndrome.

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