Pirate Boy and Skull Robot

Sirdelita

A new animation I'm working on for my...well...animation class...

Anyway, Here are the concepts so far, for the Robot! No finished drawing yet, will start as soon as I decide on a color scheme!

Sirdelita

Kid concept

ha55a

This looks awesome. I personally love number 1. But number 3 or 5 really keep the robot looking fierce. Keep the colours dull to keep the mood, although I could be proven wrong. Make the hands and feet of number 3 darker perhaps? Matching the chest.

Awesome job so far.

Sirdelita

A friend of mine did a mock up of his thoughts on it, and to be honest I totally dig it!

Sirdelita

Have some colors for the boy now!

Target_Renegade

I'd got for 1, 5, 6. The silver take looks good also, one of the first you posted.

1+4, for the character, I'd say blue is a good colour for a mechanic.

crazyfingers

Looks fun . I wouldn't let deciding a color scheme slow ya down though, just jump into it. A new color scheme's only a hue slider away anyway .

cycloverid

This is a cool idea dude. I think you should refine the concepts a bit more tho, before you move on.

Your overall renderings have some interesting silhouettes, but you should clean them up and realize the forms a bit more. The robot is coming along, I'd just progress them 1 or 2 more iterations.

The boy also doesn't really look young to me, which might be confusing with this heavy of stylization. He looks more like a young man. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but if you were going for a 'boy', I'd soften up his features a bit more. His boots also bother me, as they don't seem to have much form to them. It looks like maybe you're going for makeshift clothing, but I'd still get some different boot reference -- clothing reference in general for that matter.

I just feel like once you get to modeling, you're going to run into a few problems. This has great potential though!

dgozmo

looks good so far. I'd consider that rehash with the rope rigging, very cool idea. I also agree with some reinvention in the character's features.

Sirdelita

thanks guys! I'm really kind of on a time crunch, so, as much as I would love to spend a couple weeks concepting alone...I really just gotta keep moving forward!

I can definitely see where I can make him look younger! thanks for that!

Sirdelita

Page one of the Storyboard

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uneditablepoly

This is looking really cool, I'm gonna be watching this thread eagerly. I agree that he doesn't look very young; he actually looks a bit old. His features seem very rough and it gives him a gruff older guy vibe. I love how the robot's coming so far, keep goin'!

Sirdelita

haha yeah, the more I look at him, the more of just a short man he is...

but I will totally make him ACTUALLY look like a boy...when he's modeled!

Thanks for the support though!

Sirdelita

OK so after many requests, I decided to do a final concept of the kid! He looks more like a boy than...ya know...a beardless dwarf...

Anyway, I'm pretty happy about it, but it's definitely MODELING TIME! (After 1 more storyboard page)

Sirdelita

Final page of the story board!!

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Ok, so after a week of doing all my other school projects :poly122:, and also having my play open this last weekend....I am back to working on this! :poly124:

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Textures to be added later!!

Sirdelita

Here is my first round with the pirate boy!! This is my first time at trying to do a human character, but pretty happy with the results thus far!! Comments ALWAYS WELCOME!! :poly124:

Sirdelita

Gonna work on those gloves more

Sirdelita

fixed a LOT of the topology! Gonna redo the hands. (cause they sucked balls) annnnddd did a couple versions of the head/face for practice, but once again this is my first time. So, that part is the most challenging for me!

Sirdelita

RE-modeled the gloves (Much happier about it this time) Some more minor tweaks and adjustments! HEAD WILL BE MODELED BY TOMORROW! (keep putting it off)

Edit: This is the low poly no turbo smoothing

Mark Dygert

Looking good so far

I think the gloves are too thin on the finger tips.
Whats with the ball joints on a human?

Sirdelita

oh wow! Looking at it again those fingers could be definitely be made thicker! And, this is for my very first animation class that runs for 11 weeks. And so I've been teaching myself a LOT of stuff...I saw what rigging was gonna be like, and that's a whole beast I just don't have the time for.

Soooo, I just made ball joints to just to parent "rig" him!

Thanks for your suggestions!!!

Sirdelita

OHHHKAAAYYYY!!

Almost done with the kid, finally...dig some tweaking to the gloves, and other stuff! Just about ready to start animating!!! WOOO!!!!

EDIT: DONE AND DONE!!!!!

Sirdelita

I got super excited about him IN the robot!!

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and the back!!

Sirdelita

ALLLLLLRIIIIGHHHTTT!!!! SO! No backgrounds, music, sound effects etc etc...

but this is the bare bones animation with some shitty lighting thrown in!!!! and the final rendering will be done by the end of next week!!!! :poly121:

I'm really excited about this since this is my first animation!! :poly142:

http://www.vimeo.com/6601050

achillesian

looks like its going to be set to music, looks cool.

Sirdelita

you are correct thanks!

praxedes

nice sequence- I can see it's rough, cos of the jumpy frame cutting in the middle, but mostly I really like it- good timing and framing. You may want to look at that final scene- you are too zoomed out from the boy to sell the gesture of the shrug, which is the "punchline" gesture, so needs to be more emphasised. Apart from that, I really think it's promising!

~P~

Sirdelita

ooo yeah! I did think about that last night, to make sure you can see him. He's gonna something at the end

Sirdelita

@Praxedes-fixed those suggestions you made! It looks a LOT better thanks!!!

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Here is the lighting I did today...I'm tired....RENDER TIME!!!

nrek

Hey dude glad to see your starting on the lighting. It would be nice to see it from an angle that is more common in the actual animation though, like the front. Otherwise the only thing is that blue light on his head is making him glow, maybe pull it back a little bit.

Sirdelita

haha okay..was a funny render but i will pull that back! thanks dood!

ralusek

this is cool man. your concept art is so clean .

but ya, that animation definitely shows a good rhythm and feel for it. i like it, and i like how upbeat and responsive you are to everyone =P

Sirdelita

haha! That's how I am on a daily basis!

Joopson

An asian pirate?!?! do they have those?

Sirdelita

lol do they not??

Sirdelita

OK kids!!!! 11 weeks of work, and you have been here for all of it!! Just want to say thank you so much for everyone who helped with any suggestions or critiques, it really made a HUGE difference in the final product. I am really really excited about finishing this and I hope you all enjoy it!

Man I wish the quality didnt drop so much on Vimeo lol....ENJOY!!!!!!!


EDIT: NEW VIDEO WITH MUSIC DOWN BELOW!!

{scumworks}

Congrats on completing, looks nice =')

Sirdelita

thanks man!!! Always more to do...but I'm happy with it!!!

.Murder

i love the end when it breaks down! haha

achillesian

"You do not have permission to view this user's videos because they are all private."?

Sirdelita

I have a new version with music that I'm gonna post tuesday night!!! For now the old one will be down

@.murder-haha thanks!

Sirdelita

OK!!! YAY! Here is the FINAL FINAL version with sound effects and music and la la la!!

Hope ya'll enjoys it!

http://vimeo.com/6682981
http://vimeo.com/6682981
http://vimeo.com/6682981