gremlin character for a short animation

Torrrtilla

I'm working on a group project about a couple of gremlins who end up in a Junkyard after WW2 with nothing to do. Even though this is a rendered short, I'd like to push my character and assets to be suitable as possible game models, character being around 10k polygons. This character is evil and mischievous and makes his accessories out of parts and random things that he finds.



Here are some WIP pics

ironbearxl

Cool looking little character! Is he 10k polys or do you mean that's your limit for him?

Torrrtilla

sorry, yeah that's what I was trying to keep him down to. He is a little over 9k right now.

PixelMasher

cool man, I think you could get away with far less than 10k for it to be a game model.those cylinders on the ear peace could be normal mapped on/ also the proportions seem a bit different from the concept where it was a bit sharper/more extreme. overall nice work and cool character.

Torrrtilla

more stuff







2 maps, body and accessories both 1k.

Kawe

his gloves are very green. almost like his hands. does his skin color rub off on other things? it looks like you couldn't decide if they were hands or gloves cause the fingertips are very pointy almost like nails.

uh, but I do think this is a neat character. he's missing his teeth sticking out though and that makes him a little less sinsister.

Torrrtilla

I see that the gloves are a bit too green, thank you. Also, I think I might trim down some of those polys with a normal map. Thanks for the c&c!

Torrrtilla

So its a little early in development but I wanted to get this out there for any thoughts of making it better. In the animation this gremlin is trying reconstruct a b17 bomber from parts in the yard which has a school bus for the body and wood planks holding it together. There is is also a rough concept of what I'm going for.
Thanks Guys.

Torrrtilla

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJCLDm7v6dA[/ame]

Hate to revive this old thread, but I finished a scene of animation that I wanted to show for the final look. In the scene the gremlin is building a plane that's made from a bus and spare stolen pieces of a b17. This is the first encounter with a living pile of scrap metal called Junkman. The Junkman was created by Josh and Micah was in charge of all rigging the gremlin. All the animation, background and post was done by me.

Valandar

ROFL, nice. I liked the ... erm... tectonic spirit? Junk elemental? Whatever, the big mound coming over and waving.

whats_true

I think his nose should be pointyer like your concepts. Having it round makes it look like a small green man and not those witty gremlin. Its usually the ears and nose that are pointy, and since the ears are covered up, at least made the distinction of the noise being in a point.

Torrrtilla

whats_true.
I agree, I wanted to still maintain that the nose is made out of flesh. So an extreme point would look a little odd. But I think you're right that it needs to be sharper.
Thanks
-Neil

Baddcog

Yeah, pretty cool.

I also thought the nose needed to be sharper. And the gloves should be more yellow.

The anim was cool but it kindof seems like he pauses... takes awhile to get scared and split.

I'd also try to keep it under at least 5 k for a game model, maybe 3 k. You could probably use this as the hi poly to bake normals.

Luke_Starkie

I really liked it !

seforin

been folowing this on face book for a while its looking great sir

suggestions more junk on the main character similar to the plane (rivers bolts etc)

fantastic work otherwise

Torrrtilla

Thanks Remi, I agree. I wanted to also have broken plane pieces in the junk piles, but ran out of time.
Baddcog-thanks for the c&c. I think when I put my portfolio together I'll take your advise and make a low poly version. with gloves that are more yellow.
thanks again!