Animal Crackers

Bone

I have to make 3 animal characters for a kids educational game

I have molly the ape so far, her face is a little scary in the front on view may have to change that...

I've nearly finshed the orthograhics for the other two, well post when done.

Slipstream

Solid concepting dude. Can't wait to see more

Ruz

ha ha molly is sexy:) I don 't think she looks scary at all.can't wait to see this modelled.

HonkyPunch

I'd fuck that ape.

Bone

well Im glad to see that she has sex appeal

Bone

This is bad croc

will do the elephant tonight after work.

Rhinokey

The ape has ape like proportions which makes it look real cool, the croc has weird human proportions but with a creepy croc head. i think you should make it more croc like short arms and legs, elongated torso and longer tail, and a much larger head and mouth in relation to the bodyi scribbled this out as an idea of what i'm thinking,


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Bone

Rhinokey thats badass, hmmm looks like Im going to have to rethink badcroc a bit...

Rhinokey

well its important to rember when doing cartoons to exagerate the unique features of the character. your gorrila is ok, cause gorrilas have long arms, and short legs, also the feet are obviously gorrila. i think making the legs a bit more bowlegged, and the body hunched over with knuckles dragging would help a lot.. but that could be done in rigging. also maybe add in the dome like cranium that gorillas are known to have

but over all the gorilla you did has several gorilla like features that makes it clear.

the croc tho the only features you had was the big mouth and tail (and the tail was tiny) make a list of things you think of when you think of a crocodile, and try and make those exagerated when you cartoon it.

you said you had to do an elephant next.. things on elephant that stand out to me
Large trunk
big ears
flat round feet and hands
small tail with a tuft of hair on the end.
giant bulbous forehead.
maybe tusks
large heavy body.

now when you draw try and touch on all those features.

my croc is a lot more cartoonified than your current pieces. thats just my style, you may not want the big circle eyes, and simplified hands and feet. but the same principles should apply.

Bone

this is a early version of the elephant needs a lot of work to it though

Bone

been playing around with the croc a bit more. Its still very rough...

HonkyPunch

But
Much much better.

Rhinokey

yup the newest croc is much better than your last one

Sythest

lol these are awesome! and yeah i agree this new croc is way better

Bone

cholden

Hire Rhinokey to do you concepts. He needs a creative outlet for his drawings.

Bone

ah but for that I would need money.

Plus if I don't do it how would I ever get as good as him :P

Bone

small update and a colour test.

Richard Kain

Oh yeah...the crocodile is coming along nicely. Much better now with the more animal proportions. Crocodiles have short little stumpy limbs. Your current iteration is looking much more like the animal that it's based off of. Now you probably just need to work on pumping some personality into him. (not easy with those beady little croc eyes)

Rhinokey

dome on the apes head helps a lot.

crocodile before the last one is your best croc, the latest just seems a bit, odd. something is lost in the refinement, the front view head is off.. more t rex like i think. also the taper of the body from chest to hips is a bit drastic. i would keep plugin out ideas, don't be scared to drasticly alter your design between atempts till you get something that shines

Bone

Still very much a wip, and has some issues that need sorting.

Bone

And the Croc, which is working out a lot better than Molly.
Hands and feet need fixing.

Ruz

not bad but too many long thin polys and not enough cross sections.

zenarion

Great improvement on the croc. The first concept was a bit creepy actually, since it had more or less realistic human proportions, and an animal head just slapped onto it.

Remember! Big eyes = good guys. Small eyes = bad guys.

Rhinokey

croc model seems better than any of the croc concepts, still not perfect. but vast improvements,

i've never firmly believe in the big eye small eye theory, tho i do think large eyes on bad guys need to be acompanied by floaty sharp eyebrows.i think crocks design would benifiet by the nose holes not being on one big nose mass, but 2 individual lumps on each side of the snout

Bone

lack of update becouse I blew my computer up,

Got a new one now though yay!

Bone

something has gone weird with my renderer....


God thats some aweful texturing...