ITS A ME, MARIO!

b1ll

Taking Holiday today,
and i wanted to do this model FOREVER
MARIO b1llstyle. U LOVE IT, low poly like 700, texture soonMAYBE!

rooster

lol love it, love the dangly strap.. finish him! (and do us a video of it )

steady

haha rock on
give him a huge ass plunger covered in blood

thnom

Nice.. the hands look horrible though

aesir

seriously, spend a few extra polys on those hands. Single plane fingers weird me out.

Zwebbie

I hate how b1ll constantly says "U LOVE IT". Makes me want to prove him wrong, but his models are just too cool.

BTW, I think those planes are b1ll's way of blocking out. It's still a WIP.

poopinmymouth

You have a poly limit you want to hit, you do what you gotta do. I think at game view for what you'd use a 700 tri model for these days (psp, ds, etc) you can completely get away with hands like this. I did them like this for my Naruto model, and I'm very happy how they came out. It's just a flat billboard for a hand texture to sit on. http://www.poopinmymouth.com/3d/naruto_poses.jpg

You two might not like it, but it's a choice he made and it works at many angles, especially since he'll most likely be displaying this at full bright textures only.

Psyk0

Haha, dont mess with this Mario! Of course the hand will have fingers, probably extruded the fingers and left them like that for now.

P.S.: Bonne St-Jean b1ll

Edit: I second that request for a video.

adam

snooze fest!

conte

hmm, and what with CHA CHA go?
P.S: hate this hands

SouL

WHOAH. My succubus chic was first to have alpha'd fingers!

prototyp3

No. I did alpha fingers first. Everyone always bites my innovations.

I don't love it yet. I moderately to especially like it. I think a couple paint strokes will elevate my feelings to true love.

poopinmymouth

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No. I did alpha fingers first. Everyone always bites my innovations.

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I copied Soul, not you. His succubus model was the first I had seen to do that.

Xenobond

Oh, wow. He totally looks like he's gonna unleash his plumber power on someones ass!

BoBo_the_seal

Nice model and I know the texture will be for the win but I don’t think it feels very Mario. It looks like a muscle man dressed as Mario. Hahaha I know I hate seeing comments like this for personal fun projects but I think there is just so much you can do with a well known character without loosing its core. Chubby him up!

- BoBo

hawken

bobo forearms please... like thick slabs of meat with pinkies at the end

Kevin Johnstone

I don't know Bobo, I kinda like the snooty french mario feeling i get looking at him. I enjoy reimaginings though.

r.

b1ll

AHAH french mario, OMG that is great. lol Ill see about maybe a small belly, I dunno, Max is still open, THERE IS STILL TIME
Ill see, but then again, since when do I follow people advice? AHAHAHAH

poopinmymouth

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Ill see, but then again, since when do I follow people advice? AHAHAHAH

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The correct answer is: Never

malcolm

Please model fingers in 3d, even the ds and psp can do it.

KDR_11k

Give him a menhir!

snemmy

omg! alpha fingers! freak out! ahhH!

prototyp3

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I copied Soul, not you. His succubus model was the first I had seen to do that.

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I invented succubuseses too!

Nah, I actually never made alpha fingers, only toes and private parts.

b1ll

harhardy, U GUYS COPIED ME!

oh lame
small turnaround vid, MAYBE SOME UVW TODAY? WILL I DARE?

http://www.benregimbal.com/itsame_b1ll.mov



cya
ben

CheapAlert

hey i did alpha hands for my old 350 tri rikuo even so that technique isn't really all that unknown

Pedro Amorim

bah
sucks

-DN-

Its a well known fact bobo has the hawts for girth, and well so do I!

I second the more junk in the trunk...

Oh and u HAVE to model a utility belt cause where else would he put his plumber and wrenches?

He reminds me more of the real life action mario from the old cartoons than the more publicized cartoon version for whatever it worth... just dont make him look like the actor from the Movie... PLZ!
OH SNAP WHERE LUIGI!!<---

ITS ME A"LUGUI!! YUS!!

uk_resistant

I think it would be quite cool to do a post on reminaginations of old game characters. There have been a few, but they all tend to be nintendo based, which is cool (as indeed your model) but i reckon we can push the envelope a bit.

Theres a whole load of characters waiting to be perverted into a dif style!

SHEPEIRO

if he's french make him sour faced, and give him a stripped jumper (vaguely stripped light/dark tones of red)

Marine

amazing, you managed to make mario even gayer than nintendo could hope to.

GoK

why would you make the fingers alphas? does anyone have any examples of where this is used... i dont see the point!

Jody

b1ll

noobs

IceWolve

He looks almost like that mario from some flash where he was russian and smashing and killing the turtles and mushroom thingies with a hammer.

Joao Sapiro

gok : polysave, and from almost all angles it isnt noticable it is planes . quite usefull technique if we want to have 4 fingers instead of mittens in extremely lowpoly models

GoK

Yehh good point hmm cheers mate.
and yes indeed i am a noob good observation Benoit!

nice model btw!

Jody

Shady-D

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why would you make the fingers alphas? does anyone have any examples of where this is used... i dont see the point!

Jody

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http://www.poopinmymouth.com/3d/naruto_poses.jpg

GoK

Hey thanks mate i totaly forgot poops naruto model i remember thinking that when i saw it o_O cool stuff though and ace idea for low poly stuff! i wish id done that whith my bowser model.

Jody

malcolm

Apparently in the land of 2d fingers lighting is not part of the equation. Try getting a rim light on a one sided quad. Give me a break, are you seriously suggesting that removing those 10 polygons makes your model render faster. I bet the 8bit alpha is more expensive to render than the vertices.

poopinmymouth

The way I did mine, I didn't use any alpha, I just used seperate strip per finger. And who said anything about lighting? or a game engine at all? This is most likely going to be displayed at full bright, with all lighting coming from the texture, and it's also definately for a fun personal project. I can't speak for others, but I know when I made mine, I wanted to see how creative I could get with having expressive posable fingers, and still keep my triangle count well below 1000. fingers having any sides at all quickly eats up triangles, many more than 10. It takes six extra triangles per finger segment just to make them four sides instead of a flat quad.

Maybe everyone should just wait to see what b1ll is going to do with the final model/texture as I'm sure it's going to come out looking nice. If you hate flat fingers, don't make flat fingers the next time you make a character model for fun. Stop crapping up this thread.

adam

I don't think malcolm is crapping up this thread, but more trying to make a point... one I have to agree with - especially if its 'for fun'. If it's 'for fun', and not a game, then why even bother worrying about those 10 triangle sin the first place. I get it, you want to see what you can do with a triangle count well below 1000. But will the triangles you're going to save on the fingers make a big enough difference elsewhere on the model to justify the loss in silhoutte on the hand? I can't see that being the case.

The mario model I like - but its more so the style of how it was modelled (save the finger planes) than the character design itself. The fingers, especially from a profile view, are hardly noticable - this is evident in poop's naruto pose picture.

Just my 2 cents on the alpha finger madness. Good model b1ll.

pior

I'm almost sure that Law had fingers like that in Tekken2. Nicely lit game!

b1ll

ahah u guys are fucking priceless, LOL,

O M G!

GoK

nope

b1ll

dude dont post ur crappy images in mythread! WHAA

so i started the texture, omg 10% ONLY OMG ! its a start tho.

adam

He has lazy eyes! On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely will this character get finished?! OOOOH.

Xenobond

I like how you have it without the cap. Maybe put one of those big green pipes coming out of it, and out of that have one of them pihrana plants. YES!!1!

FunkaDelicDass

I'd darken the eyebrows to match the darkness of the mustache. Looks good though.

pior

Haha very cool B1ll. Keep it coming!

Gok, I think that one pic is from Tekken3. But then again... not much point in arguing this. I just remember that when I was playing 2, I thought, Hey, interesting, seems like they used a flat thing for the hands. Which dosen't mean it was actually the case, since T2 relied a lot on smooth/unsmooth contrast to get interesting folds aso - hence flat shaded fingers could look just as flat masked polies.

Blablabla... LET'S-A-GOOO !

MoP

bahahaha... fun stuff b1ll!

face + mustache painting style totally doesn't match the clothing style though.

looking forward to seeing it finished... EVENTUALLY

blankslatejoe

its' BIZZZAARROMARIO.

really rad...really strange, but really rad.

conte

Ehehehhehehheheeey!
like face=)
but fingers....