Topic awaiting preservation: Flahrb Jones - A WIP (Page 1 of 1)

hmmm hm hmmm hm hmmm... I am working on a character for class. Flaharb. Still have not quite nailed down the spelling of his name.

I would appreciate any insights. I started out with a cartoonish sketch, but now I want to make him look "realistic" to some degree.

Anywhoo... enough dribble....



another shot
and another

well, first of all I think he looks a bit mechanical, there doesn?t seem to be enough life in him, according to his bodily structure.

the connection between upper and lower torso makes it look especially mechanical, like as if they are unrelated parts joined together.

My advice is to try to create a bodily connection as whole, because he really looks like he is composed of individual parts that do not seem to join together.

Think of how gravity would affect his belly. It shouldn't look like a balloon and a cylinder on top of it.
Legs would be a bit winder apart and also show connection to his belly.

take a look at the Mark Behm's example http://www.markbehm.com/video/chess.mov

Cool man. I still want to make him look fat... but that may come later.

That link rocks. Thanks...

Here goes a little more work,

much much better

well so far I can say is try not to focus on any anatomical features, keep it simple.

You still can make him fat, but go for more cartoony version...

an example from Victor Navone animator at Pixar.

http://navone.org/Media/BigBang/Giant_IP_ShadeWire.jpg

http://navone.org/HTML/BigBang.html

Woo! Got a simple pedistal deal...

http://www.cerebralboy.com/temp/F_Jones.avi

I do tend to get detailed all too quickly.

He needs some pollie attributes.

Here is progress so far... no rigging, just testing the bones / skin and the materials at the moment.

Woo!

http://cerebralboy.com/temp/FJ_Skin_Ped.avi

pollies are yucky man!

oooh... he should be drinkin a pollie brew... how about that???

very good!
now i think this character would look very cool with subsurface scattering, especially the wings.

thnx... uh... yah.... subsu*BRAIN EXPLODES*



I got Max6or. Is that a mental ray photon thing? I remember hearin about it in the new Skin in Max7. but poo on that $upgrade$.

if you got max, you can get the free VRAY renderer: http://www.vrayrender.com/
here is a tute then: http://www.vrayrender.com/stuff/MtlTutorial/

it's also possible with Mental Ray, but i'm not very familiar with it:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=104578

Yacs you rock

Make my day and give me a smile

I think we need a happy confused slimie... he ^ looks a bit ticked.

*my 2 cents for the day*

*wanders off*