Turtle boy

Archanex

I decided to take a break from animation and build a new character to use for animating later With the model I'm kind of favoring the perspective drawing more than the orthos. Also I wanted to model the eyes closed because I think it will be easier to rig later on. Anyway, here's my WIP, crits and comments welcome


Concepts are by my friend Mark Barrett, model by me obviously

Josh_Singh

Looks good so far!

Art-Machine

Awesome style, great drawing, very "Psychonauts"! I hope you can capture that great angular line style in the 3d.

A.Kincade

Looking good thus far. Cool concept. Good use of your loops. Interested to see it all done and with texture. Any color ideas yet?

Good stuff. Keep up the good work.

Firebert

really damn cool style!

Gannon

I like it so far. Can't wait to see some color and it posed later, this one looks like it'll be really fun =D

Torrrtilla

That's awesome man, I went to school with Mark so I've seen the story board behind this character. Can't wait to see the final model.
-Neil

conte

lol that rocks, stylish and fun)

fast1

nice, good job so far!

FAT_CAP

Love it! The inside of the ears look great - I certainly wouldn't have wanted to poly model that sort of shape but you have done it really well.

ocarian

Excelent Concept

A little thing

I think you can merge some edges on your face to make cleaner mesh
Is not necessary to make a lot polygone to have good Profile

exemple



I think you can make the same in the front.

Good luck for the rest

Ruz

but in this case ocarian, the design is kind of a hard edge look, so perhaps he needs the loops to get that

ocarian

I agree with you Ruz.
I just think he can win some polygone on his mesh

But I waiting a new up

vladino

Sweet concept, let's see some updates!

commander_keen

That girl has MAN HANDS!

Archanex

Thanks for the positive response guys!

A.Kincade - I plan to keep the face 100% boy, and the legs 100% turtle, with the arms being somewhere inbetween I think... but I'll probably do some experimenting


Neil - You went to DP also eh? I'm surprised I don't know you. What class are you in?

FAT_CAP - Thanks for noticing! Ironically these are the most realistic ears I've ever modeled

anyway, here's the update, Obviously under heavy construction still...modeling that hair was a lot trickier than I thought, and I'm still not quite happy with it. I was thinking about doing some more experimenting with the hair modifier... anyway, I had to pimp it because I spent so long on it





ocarian - Yeah, I could probably stand to use less polys, but I really wanted to have enough density to create nice looking morphs. The last character I modeled ( http://www.smootharcs.com/other/jeffrey_wire.jpghad a bit less geometry, and I was really wishing I had more density then... particularly around the bridge of the nose

Neox

the problem with so many verts will be, that you have to controll all of them, while having a decent amount of loops is needed to do good facials too many will work against you on the other hand, as getting nice smooth shapes will get harder with every loop you have to control

Torrrtilla

I'm going into my Junior year right now and teaching project fun over the summer. I think I've met you briefly as a freshman. I really liked how Crunch turned out. Were you guys able to find work after all that?
-Neil

animatr

hah project fun. cool that's still around. I taught that too. was hell!

hey andrion, nice stuff man. this is going to turn out great. looking forward to seeing more progress.
will you be animating in maya or max?