Learning to Model

[MILES]

World of Warcraft and I finally got a divorce...so I started back down the road of learning to model. I still have a couple of things to tweak (such as adding thorns)...but I decided I'd go ahead and share it in its current state, since TES:Oblivion is due out this week. (You never know if I might drop off the face of the earth again).

I started with a cactus, and plan on continuing my next few models in this style. My goal was to create something "kid friendly" that would fit in a western themed platformer.

gauss

i'm glad to hear of your divorce, it just wasn't a healthy relationship from the start

well that's a strong start, alright. loaded with character. maybe some alpha'd polys for the needs? though it is recognizeably a cactus, it almost looks too soft and inviting. even a kid friendly cactus should have some pointy bits

i think you'll have some good practice as well as a few portfolio pieces if you do a few related articles in this same style, good work.

Mitch Cosgrave

That looks really really nice. I hate doing trees and such, but that looks great.

hawken

nice texture buddy!

BoBo_the_seal

very cool! Go ahead and spend the polies on the thorns. Make them 3 polygons each. Western platformer is a great idea! I put together a design for one several years back. Most of the platforming elements consisted of him using a lasso in creative ways.

[MILES]

Thank you all for the generous feedback.
Here are some of my concepts around the same theme...

http://www.milesharrison.com/ImageDump/Env.jpg

http://www.milesharrison.com/ImageDump/Char.jpg

yeluis

very nice style your going for, i love how the cactus turned out. it has a lot of character to it

stoofoo

Beautiful texture. Give it spikes. Tackle something a bit more complicated next?