[Riot Art Contest] - Petro Hawczak

PeteHawk

Big competition! Should be a blast and good luck to you all.
Had a quick scope of the champions and may use Dr. Mundo for inspiration.

Blockout

20min

PeteHawk

Maybe a different movement?

Concept

80min

PeteHawk

Attack idea:

Concept:

20min

AndrewHelenek

PeteHawk wrote: »

Maybe a different movement?

Concept

80min

Some feedback on this. I like the idea, it reads as someone who is large and in charge. But as it is right now, it feels very floaty. It lacks weight, that extra ompf.

AnthonyAnimation

Hey Petro, some good ideas here. For the attack, I would start with a more dynamic pose and for the antic have a wave of energy that starts from his hips and moves to his arms. Then once his arms are in the air (nice strong M shape) hold it for just a little bit then BAM into the ground.

It looks like you have the timing in the right spots, just try to really show energy and strength by using the whole body. I'm not familiar with the rig, but if it stretches use that to your advantage and get some nice clear silhouettes. Keep it up!

PeteHawk

Cheers for the feedback, I did as you guys suggested but I felt there wasn't enough creativity. So went looking for a better rig. I was feeling some sort of quad, here's what I've done this morning:

Trot:

60min

Was thinking of adding a rider to go with!
I'm also struggling to show weight, any suggestions?

jarvin88

Hey Pete, regarding the giraffe, maybe a little background on the type of LOL character your going for would help to give some feedback? I personally thought you had some interesting ideas too on your original take. But yeah let us know what your goin for on this giraffe concept.

PeteHawk

Yeah okay I'll give a back-story a shot:
Let see....

"Wanda loo-loo, a young rare Giraffe rider has lived, eaten and slept by giraffes since she was little.

She has the uncanny ability to understand their hearts, and in some way communicate with them. Eating like one of them and riding them across the desert planes, it is believed that the giraffes think her as one of their own.

For she has never seen Man, only the evil and corruption they leave behind on the boarders of the Sea of Sand. It is dangerous to venture on the Skirts they say. The Giraffe warned her to not approach it. For Man does not go into the desert either, only those who wonder lost.

Wanda has a great respect for the Giraffe family, especially since they rescued her from a desert water well. She was only a baby when she was abandoned by her own kind, and it was the four legged who took care for her.
She will live, fight and die among them, for that is the dept she considers holding, but more so because she loves them as if they were family.

Kudo is a young steed that is of the same age as she. Young, energetic and full of youth, he treats her like a younger sister, and she, her trusty knight and beloved friend."

PeteHawk

Here's an issue im having though, cannot parent or constraint the IK foot onto the saddle...I think it's something to do with the fact that the saddle is skinned to bones? I made it simply by copying some faces and extruding them out:



When I constraint it or parent, it just doesn't follow the movement.

PeteHawk

GIRAFFE!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ80VZblogM"]Baby Giraffe Runs and Plays at the San Diego Zoo - YouTube[/ame]

Evanescfan

I guess it's best u add a dummy/extra bone in the saddles place for parenting
cute vid

icontak

PeteHawk wrote: »

Here's an issue im having though, cannot parent or constraint the IK foot onto the saddle...I think it's something to do with the fact that the saddle is skinned to bones? I made it simply by copying some faces and extruding them out:



When I constraint it or parent, it just doesn't follow the movement.

You can parent (not parent constraint, so you can adjust it later) a locator to the bone you skinned the saddle to, then parent constraint the IK foot to the new locator.

Good luck!

PeteHawk

So I got her feet stapled into the saddle:

WIP:

PeteHawk

Here's a 3/4 camera angle, is a bit of a fiddly set-up, but it gives me an idea:

WIP:

Evanescfan

Nice..
I feel it needs to be a bit faster

PeteHawk

Evanescfan wrote: »

Nice..
I feel it needs to be a bit faster

The giraffe locomotion as a whole? or just the cycle?

Evanescfan

Cycle, but then when that happens, you'll naturally need to speed up the locomotion as well.

xiang Liu

interesting piece