LiLFox Freehand 3D crit

keir150

Hi, How can i make this look better?
I want it to look like it belongs in an adventure fantasy game. Made it without reference from imagination. Planning to make a mystical night forest scene to frame him in. Any words of wisdom will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for looking.
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keir150

some stuff I've been making for peeps in SecondLife. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

Are you done with the fox?  Did you check it against existing fox anatomy?

keir150

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Are you done with the fox?  Did you check it against existing fox anatomy?

Not done yet,

I went back and got some reference for the fox and decided to just make an adult. I want to portray the fox as being skinny; with large skeletal anatomy (for better silhouette). Basically, I made most of him too big (legs, tail, cheeks, eyes, ears and rib cage), but chose some areas to be slender (snoot, neck and belly).

I'd like to note that I still didn't put claws on the paws, but will fix that soon and most likely add the missing 4th toe. I also have not done more than 10 minutes on the texture job. I'm not confident in texturing at the moment and would like to wait for a bit more ideas on what I want to achieve with that.

I feel like so far I have a... believable fox? Which still, in my opinion has a quickly recognisable silhouette (more development on this when I animate). I'm currently in the process of painting vertex weights for the rig, I'm quite content with where I got the mesh so far, though I have noticed some areas where I would like to retopologise for animation. I did IK for the legs and will be animating it soon.

Lythrae

Hi! I would suggest grabbing some inspiring artwork in a style that you love

I found this handpainted fox and I think it's awesome! The artist also uploaded it to sketchfab, so you can have a better look in there

Also look at some other handpainted models that has fur like this cat (there's a bunch of handpainted stuff on pinterest)
Its also good to watch some handpainted tutorials (Even if they are not characters) But there's a good one here of a dragon 

In terms  of modelling, I think the legs are a bit too big for his body (But I'm not sure, just grab a bunch of fox
Here's a tutorial on how to draw a fox, but I think they break it down very good to understand the proportions of a fox, it might be useful 

I don't know which style you are going for so I don't know if this would be relevant, but I hope it helps!

Lythrae

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Brian "Panda" Choi

Definitely looks like a fox, but as Lythrae pointed out, existing examples of cartoon foxes should be looked at for references.  You're already recognizing a lot of anatomy issues that are present even in this imaginative version, so you definitely have a lot more room to get this looking more appealing and clean.

Get real reference photos of a fox, measure the proportions, and get those fixes in before you even begin to think about texturing issues or rigging.  Bad model can't be saved by perfect texturing.