[Hand-painted] Douglas Archer

Saman

Here is a new character I've made. I wanted to make another hand-painted character so I figured a disney'ish character would be fun. This is Douglas Archer. He was once one of King John's archers until he got fed up of the King's unfair ways and joined Robin Hood and his gang. The character consists of 4726 tripolys and one 1024x1024 diffuse map. I made a pretty simple face rig as well to control eyebrows, jaw, eyes and lips. Big thanks to Shotgun for giving me really good guidance throughout this project.
Hope you like it!

Edit: I've made a video with an animation demonstrating the rig; http://goraaz.se/Animations/DogArcher-RigDemo/DogArcher-RigDemo.html

oobersli

awesome work. i only ask that you do the rest of the cast.

Dan!

awesome

fabio brasilien

Great work!

Pangahas

Very nice..i love handpainted stuff.Just a suggestion though maybe you could add some cracks on the pedestal..

Envart

This is beautiful, I've loved those character designs since I was young. Really cool to see a 3d model. Nice work!

butt_sahib

Excellent!
Shotguns an awesome guy isnt he

greevar

Ooda-lolly! Golly, what a character! He looks like he's right out of Disney's Robin Hood.

skylebones

I love it, this is really great.

DLoud

this is awesome. Beautiful texture work :thumbup:

Jeff Parrott

Very cool design. Feels like that Robin Hood Disney movie. He needs a buddy that is a snake or something.

Tenchi

Suh'weet! no crits

Mcejn

Though UV space could be used a bit more efficiently - there's not a thing I don't love about this character.

Great work.

achillesian

good execution, the way I see things though I wasn't getting a whole lot of dog likeness, quick paintover

duncan

HAHAHA AWESOME! I love him. I think there may be just a little too many wrinkles and folds in the cloth but whatever, Freaking awesome work. Any plans to work on some of the other characters?

haikai

You've been on a tear lately! Looks great. I do agree that the wrinkles are excessive though. Fewer wrinkles on some materials can help suggest different thicknesses. A bit of gradient on the eyeball would also help prevent it from looking so flat.

Saman

Thanks a lot, guys. I'm really glad that you like it!
@oobersli: Thanks, this character was made up by myself so I never really had any intention of actually doing a character from Robin Hood. I prefer to have the freedom of being able to add and change stuff, I'd rather not mess with what's already done well by Disney
@Dan!: Thanks, man!
@Fabio Brasilien: Thanks!
@Pangahas: Thanks, man! Good idea.
@Walrus: Thank you!
@Butt_Sahib: Thanks! Indeed he is. Both a generous guy and a master
@greevar: Thanks!
@skylebones: Thanks!
@Dloud: Thanks, man!
@Jeffro: Thanks. Nice idea, never thought having him have a partner. A snake would actually be pretty cool!(Snakes in Disney movies usually have antagonist roles so a change would be good)
@Tenchi: Thanks!
@Mcejn: Crap, I accidently painted over some parts in the diffuse map when cleaning it up. I'll update it with the proper one soon. Thanks!
@achillesian: You're right, he doesn't really look like a real dog. I never used any photos of real dogs as reference material, which I probably should have. I'll look into it though. Thanks!
@duncan: Thanks, man. Yes, you're right. I went kind of crazy with the folds.
@haikai: Thanks, man. You're right as well. I'll look into the gradient thing.
@Hboybowen: Here you go; http://goraaz.se/Animations/DogArcher-RigDemo/DogArcher-RigDemo.html
The rig is pretty simple. I've used biped for the base skeleton and then I added boxes to control various parts of the face.

Un_Delincuente

Goraaz wrote: »

The rig is pretty simple. I've used biped for the base skeleton and then I added boxes to control various parts of the face.

Wow. I thought you might have used a CAT Tool Rig when I saw the vid. Thats quite impressive actually, the rig looks fantastic as well as the model itself. Good job

Cordell Felix

GREAT model and texture work!
achillesian's comment is good, a darker muzzle and ears would make him more convincing!
Only other thing i would argue with is the uv's. You could have packed it a little better and gotten better texture resolution throughout the whole model. next time, pack them uv's close!

POFFINGTON

I could see this in a Robin Hood esc environment. I would also love to see that haha. MORE CHARACTERS!*This is one of the freshest ideas I have seen. Keep this up.

Saman

@Un_Delincuente: Thanks, man!
@Cordell Felix: Thanks! I agree on the muzzle and ears. I'll fix that soon, just have some other things to do first. I agree about the UV's. The problem here was that some parts were removed, others were added througout the making of this model. I went back and forth to add more parts. Some parts are more or less pitch-black on the diffuse map though.
@POFFINGTON: Thanks, man! Perhaps I'll do some more characters from this universe in the future.

Saman

I toned down some of the folds a bit. Let me know what you think;

haikai

Looks like you toned down the wrinkle strength, but the amount of wrinkles is still a bit much. My paintover is going too far in the other extreme, but here's what I was thinking of:


I also adjusted some other stuff to distinguish his face, the straps, etc. I think it's good to emphasize the overall forms and try to prevent subsequent details from overpowering it.

Saman

Thanks a lot for the paint-over, haikai!
I made some changes, I tried going for something in-between my previous version and your paintover. Please tell me what you think;

haikai

Getting there... It might just be a matter of personal preference at this point. The contrast in the line-y detailing of the wrinkles, fur, and straps makes it busy for me. The wrinkles also don't really hang as I would expect them to- is there any particular reference you're using?

Some other things I tried to do in the paintover:

• Toned down the brightness of the face. I think it's good to have a subtle lighting of the head to draw some attention, but yours is a little extreme in comparison to the rest of the model.
• Added a bit of a gradient to the bow just to keep it from looking flat.
• An overall adjustment to some of the saturation. Contrast isn't just about lights versus dark, but also saturated versus desaturated. Maybe that's just part of the cartooniness, but I think toning some parts down can help other parts stand out.

That's just me though, and I'm nit-picking. You could easily stop where you are now and have a fine model. :thumbup: