Thought I would give this a shot… It sounded fun…
This crate would be for a platformer, a la Sonic the Hedgehog or Mario.
I wanted to do a mechanical Easter Island sort of deal…
This crate would require a key, and when the key is inserted the eyes would glow, the hands would spread and the mouth would open and the head would flip back to reveal the contents of the crate, (probably health, or batteries, or whatever the equivilent would be for this game. :))
-eric
Kwel… I like your concept a lot.
Would you model it so that it be capable of opening up for this challenge or just concentrate on the exterior looks?
Keep it up!
Thanks for the kind words, guys…
I’ve begun modelling, and I actually am modelling it with the ability to open up… Although if this gets frustrating, I may scrap the whole thing and just concentrate on making a nice pretty ‘static’ one…
I’ve decided to do the eyes and keyhole with texturing and bump mapping, but I may change that in the future…
This is still very rough, Probably about an hour or two’s work into this so far…
I’ve included the model info in the images but, (being unused to modelling with the intent of putting it in a game), I can’t tell which would be the equivilent of triangles, so I don’t know how many I have so far… 
Are edges and triangles the same thing in Maya?
Anyhoo…
Yeah, that’s what I have thus far…
-eric
Edit: Looking at my own pics, I realize I made the body really too wide… I’m gonna narrow him up a bit and stretch out his forehead, more…
EDIT2: I went in and fixed that and I also realized I had about 20 extraneous vertices left over from when I went on an edge-deleting spree… 
I like it alot!!
Still, I think it could just have a simpler mechanism, like it spreads it’s arms, and instead of a body behind them, there’s a hole or something with the items inside… Simplicity rules
Continue with the design it’s great…
Yeah, I was thinking about also putting together a version where the head just goes upwards and there’s a hole there…
-eric
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