Ike (need some advices)

Aranoth

Hello,

First, please excuse me for my approximative english, I hope everyone will understand me.

I'm trying to make a low poly character, around 1000 polygons.

My model is young Ike from Fire Emblem 10 :
http://www.path-of-radiance.info/images/dl/ike.jpg (original art)
http://www.smashbros.com/en_uk/characters/images/ike/ike.jpg (Smash Bros version)
Even if adult Ike looks easier to make, I choosed the young version because there is a lot more reference images for the young one (thanks to Smash Bros).

However, as a noob, I had difficulties, so I'm looking for advices, criticisms, comments, etc.

Here is my actual work :


And my questions :

1) How should I link the limbs to the body ?
2) Can I save polygons for the limbs without making the silhouette too sharp ?
3) How should I make the shoulders and the neck, and the head ? I can't see how to proceed.
4) Same for the hands, I don't see how I can get a hand, starting with a cylinder
4) I want to animate it later, what changes should I make to make it possible ?

Thanks for your help (even if as a programmer I don't have a lot of ambition, I think this is the right place to progress )

cholden

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=46031

look around, you'll find a lot of info.

Aranoth

Thanks for the link, this helped me a lot !

But I still wonder how to do the head and the hands

Proportions may be a bit odd, if you find something, just tell me

machuca

http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~shinda/Infos/Tutorials/SM_tuto_p1.pdf

"read" this one, or at least just look at the little pretty pictures. see how he works throught the head and hand of his model. compare what you have done to his models topology.

Aranoth

Hmm... I already knew this tutorial and it didn't really help me, I can't read the explanations and the gap between the steps is too big for me (he started with the head already done...) and he use a lot more polygons.
But it's still interesting, thanks

Finally I redone the model, with lower specs, and it's really easier (the fewer polygons, the easier to work with ^^)

The head is still work in progress

onionhead_o

u need to add another loop below the chest to define his upper body more. and u should also model finger on the hand with extrudes first and shape it after. when ur happy with the shape duplicate it and weld it back onto the hand.

as for the shoulder pad u could add a shell modifier. and just wondering what is the reason for the 1000 poly restriction.

Urthrese

he doesn't have a very good silhouette, and for a guy he has some major hips. also when choosing to model a character i would suggest doing something that hasn't been done already so that way you won't be compared to professionals. but otherwise i would just say add some more cuts in to give him a better look silhouette wise and then just texture him for a flat view since that's how most low poly models are viewed in games. you'll just have to paint in lighting information.