Character: Simply Gorgeous

[superfly18]

Haha..i think it looks great. Great enjoyable characters you wanna watch. A much better change from your "delicacy".

Good work, i like the style.

[kaktuswasser]

haha, very nice ones. Would love to see an animation with them :)

[PvtRyan]

I love him!! He really looks like a simple little fella too, a bit slow but cute :love:

But, maybe I'm missing the point, but WHY is he hollow? Lighting effects or something?

[paintbox]

Funny little creature :)

[Johnlittle]

Funny little guys,cute,they look like they would get into and cause a lot of trouble. Nice work.:beer:

[Rivendale]

Thanks a lot!

PvtRyan- why hollow? some of it has to do with lighting effects, because he has sub-surface scattering on him. He has an omni-light inside his head, so that the the head surface will absorb more light. Also I might use the hollowness for some purpose later, but I havn't figured out for what yet. Maybe he has a small village at the bottom of his stomach? ;)

[PaxtonGerrish]

i love it..
stylized and cartoony yet photo real rendering. my kinda sheeaat. :buttrock: .maybe add some bones and veins inside the transluent skin. thatd look cooooolll! like those fish in finding nemo

[Scottosh]

It's cute and well done,but add some details,it would be sooooo muuuuch better.:)

[xzevlin]

Looks great, the dimples add alot to the cuteness factor. The skin almost looks like the felt on a muppet.

[Rivendale]

Thanks for the comments!

Scottosh- I had to restrain myself from putting in more detail, because I wanted him as simple as possible, almost like a pencil scetch. What kind of details are you missing?

PaxtonGerrish- Yeah, that's the kind of renderings I like to do most. The veins are a cool idea, I'll see if I can make something of that. I havn't seen finding Nemo, it hasn't opened in Sweden yet, but from what I've seen the fishes surfaces are really cool.

:beer:

[Bilbo_Baggins]

Very nice. I would really like an animation. I think it would very easy to come up with a story board for a short with these guys reeking havoc. :)

[victor throe]

sweeeeeeet


they look like they are made from supersculpey

was that intentional?


i want one



make him move!

what was the modelling technique?

[victor throe]

i wouldnt add veins and bones.....it would detract from their simplicity and cuteness


id play on the fact that they are that simple


change the hue to a more orangy brown and come up with a plot about how

at night....when you are sleeping.....the earwax men come out to play



make them a bit darker and they could be the greasy brown bum shellac, mooky residue people


in fact

you could have a whole race of bodily excretion creatures

like the Mr Men

they all have specific traits

hell....**** that......im having that idea COPYRIGHT.

[raden]

very cute Rivendale
i dig the character design and the name:thumbsup:

and could you play more with the sss, i think it'll be cool if you can make his body feels like a .. okay forget the name in english but its a crawling thing on your wall eating mosquitos..that thing's body. you know very soft, watery inside as if it got no bones. well you know what i mean :insane:

looking forward for the anim



:beer:

[victor throe]

"its a crawling thing on your wall eating mosquitos..that thing's body."



what the hell is that?!


more importantly.....where are you from....i dont want to accidently go there


i have this vision of an eighteen stone mental patient clinging onto the wall in a nappy, catching insects......tell me you were describing some kind of small lizard...

[raden]

Originally posted by victor throe

i have this vision of an eighteen stone mental patient clinging onto the wall in a nappy, catching insects......

hey thanks victor for making me feel better. it's cool to know there is someone whose fantasies are sicker than mine:D




:beer:

[Seven]

This is really nice, great work. You said you made it in Max 5, could you tell me how you achieved the translucency, almost jello effect for the skin. How the light glows through parts of the arm and head.

Its an amazing effect, could you explain plz

Sev

[victor throe]

its not that im sick.....


its just life's path is not a straight line...so you gotta be a bit twisted to get through it

[Rivendale]

"its a crawling thing on your wall eating mosquitos..that thing's body."
victor throe- ehrm, I have no idea what you're talking about there, but it sounds cool.
The modeling technique was drawing splines over a concept scetch from the side and front, connecting the dots, and adding a surface modifier. Then collapsing to Editable poly and doing a lot of tweaking. The arms and legs were extruded and the hands were built seperatly. Here is the concept:
http://members.chello.se/mille0/concept.jpg

Seven- The translucency is also known as Sub-surface scattering and is a feature in the Brazil renderer among others. It makes the light scatter within the model as if though it had real volume. The model also has a slight falloff map in the diffuse slot to enhance the effect.

Thanks for the replies and ideas!

[pOiNtPuShEr]

Great work. He looks really fun. Post some animation soon :-)

[icky]

I hope your animation lives up to look. That's a funky little character you got there :cool:

Looking forward to more!

:thumbsup:

[Kel Solaar]

The character design is really cool, I love the light scattering trough their flesh. Good Job:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[BadKarma]

haha i want one !

BadKarma !

[Rivendale]

Thanks!
I've made another render, showing the sss at work, enjoy!
http://hem.bredband.net/b213713/Website/web/simplylighthead.jpg
(no characters were harmed during the rendereing of this image):)

[victor throe]

they have so much character

you can just imagine what led them to be in that circumstance

nice work

you have a winner there

[tubby]

really great characters there, i love their smiles.They really do look like they'll be fun to animate, great job. Oh, raden, are you talking about geckos? because the skin and the color and its translucency totally look like the geckos in hawaii, those things are creepy.:thumbsup:

[.gomes]

wow :eek:

they really cool , nice boys ;)

the flarew effect are great :thumbsup:

[raden]

@tubby
i'm not sure it's gecko tubby, we called it cicak. it's different with other lizzard because it doesnt have the lizzard's skin, its very very soft. it once hop onto the back of my neck, crawling down to my nipple that freaked me out so much i accindently crushed it stomach when i tried to remove it from my nip. man all of these juice...still remember it :argh:


@ Rivendale

yeah cool sss. now cmon go animate!

[UnlikelyCorny]

they are fun!!

(this is my shortest reply ever, but I think that covers it)

[hypercube]

hahaha. I really like how much expressiveness they have for such simple designs, nice goofy balance, and the sss is definitely a good touch, I like them kind of waxy-hollow like that.

The second one with the burning head is hilarious, too. Love the smoke. :D Though I'm not sure where the shadow on the right side of his cheek/chin/thing would come from?

[Dustin_Senos]

Haha oh man these little dudes are great, i can allready invision how they would get around. The sss is a nice touch, i agree with Hypercube, the shadow on the right side of his jaw looks a bit odd. Do you have a history for them? a story line of what they are? why they are small? where they live, and all that jazz? or are they just little men who popped into ur head one day? Either way i like them.

[Rivendale]

Thank you for the replies!
Seems like you people wants to see an animation. I'm looking forward to animating this, but first I need to come up with a good story to give me some motivation to do something good with it. If anybody feels like writing a short script for this I'd be glad to take a look!:)

hypercube- I think the shadow comes from a light that maybe shouldn't cast any shadow. I didn't think it looked too out of place though, adds a bit of contrast, so I kept it.

Dustin_Senos- I don't have any solid story on him/them right now, but they live in the real world, although in their own world if you know what I mean. Maybe they live like rats; in the walls, maybe they don't. They are small because they they don't grow higher than one and a half matchbox.;)

[alexbox]

Riktigt ball. Tycker att du har lyckats väldigt bra!

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