day of the tentacle characters

qubism

inspired by b1lls and massbots bernard i digged up my memories of this game and realized what fun these characters are and started to model them.

for now i stick with vertex color and try to model all them

Pedro Amorim

liking it!

Mark Dygert

very cool

Wells

nice project idea.

really digging Bernard

Slum

Oh thats awesome man, i love it.

StephenVyas

Ha, nice. That brings back some good memories. Thanks for posting

Sa74n

awesome!

qubism

bernard is somewhat work in progress there if u look at the hands they are just some faces for
the thumb and finger itself... the tentacle thing im not exactly happy with. i might define some
"inside" mouth like the muppetshow mouths for the human characters. could givee them chance
for expressions.

okay so im looking forward to improving it all and making it all even cooler. im moving soon tho
to frankfurt and dunno if i better take care of othre things. thanks for your comments so far
i like that u like it!

Eric Chadwick

These are awesome! But shouldn't the tentacle suckers be green inside?
http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/3413-dott1.jpg

qubism

well yea whatever ... im not happy with how it is at all. expression of evilness isnt there so
wait for my retouch on that please any other comments are apreciated

Eric Chadwick

Cool. What's up with Bernard's cheekbones? Looking a bit squinty, might just be the Gouraud smoothing though.

qubism

so there we have laverne. and some little more work on bernard.
laverne is prolly the more hard to catch one. so the hair isnt exactly
like the original but there is a lil tolerance in the style i guess. anyway
i might try to do the hair more like the original see if i can do anything good ...

Pedro Amorim

yeah. im liking the approach to this.
Not sure what you are trying to achieve, either closeness or your own interpretation. If its the latter i think it looks great. If it's the first i think there are some stuff to change, like the shape of the head on bernard. but eitherway i think it looks really hot. when you do the texture they will come out awesome im sure.

Slaught

Very awesome man!

Joao Sapiro

hahaha i dig man , love the way you approached it without texturing !

qubism

so bitmaps comment kinda hit me where i felt something myself.



i gave bernard a lil quick tweak that change it to what i think
captures the nerdyness a bit better while stayin in the cuteness
frame of my approach

qubism

slightly touch ups but i thought i show the characters with this lightsetup.

looks neat i think

pior

Are you intentionally making them younger ?

qubism

more!!!

well wouldnt say younger but cutizin them yea. sorta makes them younger.
wasnt sure what age they originally are meant to be but i just read that
laverne is meant to be a student of medicine so yea its a bit of contrast there
hehe... anyway my idea is makin it a bit of childish cutezyy

so the doc aint there yet just layed out the topo of the head as for what i need.
will refine more

Eric Chadwick

You got the feeling of Hoagie down pat, Laverne I think is the weakest though. She always seemed so ratty to me, I like in the original the way her eyes are rimmed with dark and her sweater looks slept-in. Her eyeballs are awesome though, nice job. Can Bernard have bigger/flappier ears? More like butterfly wings, like Steven Colbert's right ear.

These are awesome. Are you thinking about animation at some point? That would be soooo cool.

Steve Schulze

Yeah, Laverne needs a little bit of tweaking to capture the character, even if you're running with your own variant. Laverne is, if I remember correctly, supposed to be the typical insecure, introverted teen girl. The original design accentuates this by ilustrating her as a thin, lanky, slightly hunched girl wearing a very oversized jumper. I think you need to tweak the torso and limb proportions a bit to capture this.

Her jaw-line could needs a little reshaping too


They're coming along well, mate. Just a few little tweaks to really get that character into them.

qubism

now this is what i call feedback. thanks pals ill see what i can incorporate your thoughts.

jpgourley

This is a really fun project. They definitely look a bit younger, but it sounds like that cuter look is what you want to go for. I agree with the above posts about Laverne. The rest of the characters embody the original characters attitude and general feel, but Laverne seems like she should be a little more lanky and disheveled. Keep up the great work, I can't wait to see them finished.

qubism

so i think purple looks not too bad.
also laverne is better now
the doc tho is hard tho
any comments?

pior

Hmm if you want to stick a bit to the original you definately need to make doc's cheeks less fatty - as seen on the pixel version.
Also regarding characters wearing glasses I think it would look more powerful if you make the lenses completely opaque and shiny. Maybe a good rule of thumb would be ... don't model any detail that is not on the original designs? I that regard the fat kid and the tentacle are great, but Bernard and the doc seem to come from a another, more visaully dense universe somehow.

I don't think I am making any kind of sense tho!