Fatty Fish Trooper

`kungfubilly · Jun 2005

Still have to mess around with the rigging and maybe add some more details to the back 2706 tris, 512 and 256 tex maps

Renaud Galand · Jun 2005

damn that rox dude! Exellent character. Nice/clean mesh and great texture. Proportions are great too. My only comment would be that you could add some additionnal shadows here and there (shoulder/arm join, etc). Forearms/hands parts need more work too (for me).

Anyway, great stuff.

stoofoo · Jun 2005

I dig this. Way exaggerated, way cool. I dont like how detailed the feet ar in relation to the shoulders. I see chunks there at the joint, and the feet are just silhouette. Just keep an eye on that poly distribution, i guess.

Seems the jet pack upper edge could use some sorta of detail? Maybe a trim? Or paint chips from intake? Who knows--just seems to be unfinished there=)

palm · Jun 2005

Cool and original design.

JO420 · Jun 2005

its a trap!! hehe very nice

cheybea · Jun 2005

hey rory
lookin good..

- Chels

fiart · Jun 2005

Cool design and well done model. I agree with the previous comment about the shoulder that could use more polys.Great work

EarthQuake · Jun 2005

You have some really soft lighting on the cloth/metal and some overblown highlights and shadows on the flesh which i think is kind of backwords and looks pretty bad, your lighting on the flesh is really bothering my like there is no light source at all just that you've painting some highlights and then surounded those highlights with some shadows. I would try toning down that lighting a LOT, and maybe baking out some a simple overhead light setup to get a more natural look to it. But other than that stuff it looks great, its a cool concept and the modeling looks well done but the texture work is falling short in some areas in my opinion.

MoP · Jun 2005

Great concept, the model seems cool too, it's all very original and fun, so good job there!

I have to agree with EarthQuake on the lighting thing though, there doesn't seem to be a consistent light source, and the material differences (specular brightness and colour, etc.) isn't being handled so well.
I really think the texture would benefit from more shadows painted in, that'd help separate the elements a lot more - at the moment the whole thing is reading as rather messy, different segments kinda blend into each other due to most of the values being in the midtone range.

It'd probably look a lot better if you didn't render it with a fullbright texture, since the gouraud shading on the model would help some of those issues, but I always think it's better if a texture in this style (non-normal-mapped) can work on its own in fullbright.

Any chance of an SDK? It looks like a really fun model to texture

Good work overall, just work on the lighting consistency and material definitions, and it'll be absolutely amazing!

MoP

Irritant · Jun 2005

Excellent design, I love this character

Joao Sapiro · Jun 2005

very original, i like the textures , very appelative

i dont know but for some reason i cant avoid to imagine that guy hanging out at Manaan on KOTOR lol..call me crazy if u want...

`kungfubilly · Jun 2005

Renauld Galand: Glad to see you like the design! It was mostly made up as I go along, so that's why the hands/forearms probably don't 'connect' well with the rest of it, they'll probably be messed around a bit more.

Stoofoo: Good eye on the shoulders and feet...after simplifying the feet geometry a bit and adding some more geometry to the shoulders it looks more rounded, as well as winding up w/less polys overall. I added a bit more to the jetpack as well, you were right in saying that it looked unfinished.

Palm: Thanks! I was playing with doing something a little nonstandard in the way of heads and it wound up sprouting a body afterwards (again, probably poor planning/design workflow but eh)...I blame the old tex avery/chuck jones cartoons for the proportions.

JO420: HAHAHAHA yeah! I wanted to give him more of a salmon colored skin like Ackbar but...nahhh....

Cheybea: Good to see you! We gotta chit chat sometime

Fiart: Thanks!

EarthQuake: I really appreciate your critique...texturing still eludes me greatly (especially contrast), and most of the time spent so far on this model has been figuring out 'how to texture such and such material' and there's still a lot to learn, and what you're saying is totally correct. That's a great suggestion for the light baking, I'll definately mess around with that. Thanks again.

Mop: Like 'Quake, thanks again for writing that out...good call on the midtones, they're kinda like my comfort zone that I gotta boot my heiny out of...

That's awesome that you're asking about the SDK, I'd love to see what you and other polycounters would do with this mesh (which might leave me green w/envy but it'd be a good learning experience muahahaha). Would a .obj (I work w/maya) and the uv maps for the body and head be enough or is there anything else required/reccomended?

Irritant: Glad to hear you like him!

Johny: YOU'RE CRAZY! If anywhere he'd be on Endor making Ewok shish kebobs

MoP · Jun 2005

OBJ would be fine, there are free plugins for Max and most decent model viewers, so there's no compatibility problem, I think. Wireframe UV maps are usually fine... might wanna stick a readme in there with contact information, if you feel like it too, although it's not really necessary.
I'm also interested to see what people can come up with for this guy, he's definitely the most original thing I've seen round here for a while!

`kungfubilly · Jun 2005

Sweet! Here's the SDK:

Fishtrooper SDK zip (114 kb)

Enclosed is the .obj, .tar uvmaps, and a quick contact readme. Go wild and post what you whip up!

moose · Jun 2005

bahahaha!

that rules! Love the colors in your skin too, really work well together

i kinda wish the seam at the arm wasnt so pronouced by the shift in materials - you could probably hide it a little more by pulling the sleve down a bit.

kinda makes me think of what Spongebob characters would look like if they were all 'hardcored' out into an FPS game, in the cheesiest way possible (not a negative comment on the design, i love it!).