zombie cowboy

spitty

here's a model i started for the last cgchat contest. you had to do a cowboy, ninja, pirate, or viking. i chose a zombie cowboy with his horse that was blown to bits.

the horse is modeled but not textured at all. the cowboy's texture is still very much wip (especially his hands and legs). i'm going to try to finish him this weekend. cc is always welcome.

HandSandwich

Great work so far. Really good concept to model transfer. Should be real good when finished.

poopinmymouth

Awesome, definately fits under "stylish"

gauss

haha! loving the humor and how well the style has transferred over intact on the model. looking forward to the finished version

Chi

Great concept, model and textures looking good. Keep it up.

ebagg

The model and texture look dead on with the concept (except for the minor changes you did), damn well done, finish it up! Can't wait to see the impaled horsey!

malcolm

That is awesome.

Ferg

ferg like... ferg save crits till texture is further along... humor + character^(undead) + artistic skill = win

swampbug

most importantly to me, you nailed the look and feel of the eyes from concept to model. Some people just dont get it.

rooster

love it, great style. Great concept painting too! can't wait to see the horse

yeluis

real nice piece. cartoony and western two of my favorites. Im just not feeling that hat, doesnt seem to fit him nicely

spitty

thanks for all the kind words.

here's a small update. i did a little work on the legs, and started on the horse.

BoBo_the_seal

heh that kicks ass!

- BoBO

doc rob

Very well done!

dur23

I heart your cowboy.

I say he needs a brokeback companion.

spitty

finally did some work on this guy over the weekend, and i'm feeling pretty close to being done. I might add spurs and, i still see little things i want to fix. any feedback you guys have is cool.

i'm going to rig him and see if i still remember how to animate..

gavku

That's awesome dude, very true to the concept too.

rollin

beautiful texturing.. veryvery nice man!!

don´t know where your going but a bit more "global"-lightning ?!

but for cartoony it works this way too

again.. very nice

ChaosEidolon

Seriously one of my fav chars ive seen here so far, just love the style. gg =D

Squirmy

Sweet, this must have been a blast to work on.

conte

Hehe, i remember this guy, hahah.
so fackin awesome

SouL

This looks really awesome

MoP

rockin'!

RazorBladder

Can I feed the horse?

This is definately one of the koolest & stylish concept/model I've seen in a long time

Honolulu_Ninja

This is awesome!

spitty

i'm rigging him up right now... its been a long time since i've rigged anything. i haven't added any bones to the cowboy's face yet, but i plan to.

i'm gonna try to do some anims this weekend.

Wells

hmm, thought I'd posted on this thread before, guess not.

Love this character, especially the horse head - that turned out fawking rad.

His shirt and pants seem much lower quality than the rest of hte texture... I think it might be the black outline on the rips. Might want to revisit that real quickly.

But yeah, awesome piece, tons of character. I want his horsie.

Slum

So awesome. The texturing is great.

This has been saved to my 'awesome' folder.

spitty

sectaurs,

the outlines on the rips were a stylistic decision to try to make it more cartoony. but i'm tending to agree with you that it actually makes the texture look of lesser quality. i've done some quick work to get rid of the outlines, and i like how it looks so far.

I'm a little worried about it losing some style as i do this, but i've been looking at other cartoony game art like Team Fortress 2 and Kingdom Hearts, and they don't use any outines at all.

thanks for the comments

stoofoo

splitty I'm in love with you right now. I am not sure i feel like the outlines are good or bad. I think you have hit this character really well. Fucking great work.

spitty

here's my first attempt at an animation for this guy. i haven't done any animation in about 4 years, so i feel a bit rusty. any cc is welcome.

i'm going to try a couple attack animations where he uses his horse as a hammer, a spear, and a joust thinga ma jig. hell, maybe he'll use his horse like a pole vaulter too.

run 3qtr view

run side view

run front view

Slum

wonderful! I love the flapping horse jaw and ears.

Xaltar

hahahahaha, looking awesome dude, such a cool concept

[MILES]

While I'm not a big fan of blood dripping horse heads...the creative design and style behind this model is awesome. Great job! Its always nice to see fresh ideas!

zenarion

awesome love it :P

Geezus

One thing that gets me is that his right leg seems to stay on the ground a bit longer than it should. It kinda throws it off for me. It might just be that he's sort of "riding" the horse on the stick...just something isn't translating well for me. I'd also imagine that gun having a bit more secondary animation...it seems like it's glued to his hand as is. I Love the flapping of the horse jaw. Make the ears on the horse a bit more "flappy", the animation works well when the head is going up, but the ears just seem to snap back into place when he's on the downward arc instead of going back farther. Hope all this makes sense. Can't wait to see some more of this character! :]