LPC #4 - Smithy

Smithy

The Pengui-dozer:

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final:


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It came out a bit like just a penguin riding a bulldozer, and not really a merging of animal and machine. Part of it is due to the feet resting on the scoop, but I think the feet add too much to the character to remove them. I hope that's ok. Anyhow, this was good fun! Thanks guys,

-Smithy

MAUL0r

looks good, since you have the time, I wonder if maybe you could just combine the shovel and the feet? it might help sell the merger more.

Em.

I second that, it would be awesome +10 if you could make the feet the shovel, or something like that. Right now it just doesn't feel mixed at all. He's cute though.

Sage

looks great, but I thought the same thing that oglemeanimations mentioned about the feet, but it's really cute as is.

Alex

leilei

how'd you go from a wacky bsdaemon to a penguin though? What had that thought :O

Smithy

Thanks for the crits and ideas, I gave him new shovel-feet which actually used fewer triangles and uv space, freeing up some triangles for a snowdrift to push in front. 498 tris atm.

cholden

awesome, love how you integraded the feet as the plow.

MAUL0r

well played sir.

Funky Bunnies

Rock on, the new feet-plow is sweet. Does the snow have to be so grey?

Smithy

Yeah the snow should be lighter, I was trying to give it some volume with shadow, I think I just ended up muddying it.

I also picked through the mesh merging verts and optimizing, saving me enough triangles to give him a hat and a north-pole prop.

Eclipse

awesome improvement, I really like how you combined the two, it's amazing what 500 tris can do in the right hands, great work.

hawken

best 499 triangles I've seen on this forum

Em.

Yes! Much, much better with the feet as the plow, love it!

Japhir

great stuff! i think you can make the snow look like snow by making the shadows in blue.
great stuff!

MAUL0r

I fear that my suggestion may have put you in the winning slot! damn my helpful nature!!!

Emil Mujanovic

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great stuff! i think you can make the snow look like snow by making the shadows in blue.
great stuff!

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I was about to suggest the same thing.
Great entry and good luck.

-caseyjones

pior

Awesome!
Possible mini touchup : you may want to edit the eye planes normals so that they get shaded with the same value - just by making the normals point straight forward. It *might* make the eyes less flat and also more cartoony.

pliang

Right...now use the last triangle and alpha a speech bubble.

This is really adorable btw.

Sage

kick ass , really like it.

Alex

Smithy

Thanks for the additional suggestions, I'm very pleased with how it's turned out with these recent additions.

adam

Hey man, really nice piece.

It looks like there's a lot of wasted triangles on his feet that could have been spent else where. I used the wireframe shot you posted in your final submit post.

Switching the feet to be the shovel was a definite increase in awesomeness! I like the smoke too, oddly enough...