Steam Pug (Professor HerpaDerpalus.)

seforin

Hey All, So Ive been working on this on and off lately. Ive been doing so much environment work and Hardsurface stuff these last few years that I really havent done much organic stuff asside from the occasional ruin/Tree.


So I found this funny concept online (no idea who drew it , was in a random forum thread) And I decided it would be fun to make...so PROPS to the original artist..

I of course decided to amp up the design a bit more as well so it could be a full functioning device.

Well enough talk lets get to it.


The idea:

Steam Punk Pug who flys around the world in his propetial floating device powered by his little legs and pug farts


Concept


HighPoly





LowPoly Bakes_Goggles...so far

Ged

haha nice start you gotta get that weightless helpless pose the concept has on the dog

Fragged

This little dog has character!
Looking forward to the end-result.

I find the goggle's fitting on the dog's head a bit off.
The glasses itself are tight to the dog's face, but the headband seems too loose. Maybe the headband should be tighter around the back of it's head?

Ferg

lookin good remi, the goggles need to be bigger and pointed out like his eyes are though... give him that confused googly-eyed look

Two Listen

Ferg wrote: »

lookin good remi, the goggles need to be bigger and pointed out like his eyes are though... give him that confused googly-eyed look

Was going to say this but found it already posted. So, seconded. Need those goggles to go more in the direction of the concept.

gsokol

saw this in waywo. I really dig the idea. Good luck mang.

seforin

updated with chunkier bigger goggles.

seforin

And now a texture update with more pug butt


Going to start baking out the blimp shortly.

SouthpawSid

so much win. Never before has a dogs butthole been created so nicely in any sort of artistic medium.

jimmypopali

I said when I came in here, "If I don't see a dogs but-hole in here, I'm never coming back".
You just saved your thread.

seforin

As told to me by a old creative director I worked for "its the details that make things shine"
There's to much Dick on polycount lately...needs more buttholes. lol.


Anyway, a late night update with updated materials and lighting placement and textures.Anyone have any suggestions to make furry bits pop more in spec/gloss? I'll post flats if people are interested?

seforin

Just a update to the Professor's Flying Device.

Rhinokey

nice, tho i personaly like it more in the concept where he's just strapped in and its not cluttered up with controls an such.

Snight

Original artist is Robin Latkovich,FYI.http://robinlatkovich.com/

I agree with Rhinokey. I love the simplicity in the original concept compared to the complexity of the controls you added.

seforin

I also had the original design but when I was working on it I had a few people tell me that the design does not make sense there was nothing holding him in place...then someone mentioned how did he control it..pug farts? (hince the butthole) So I figured to add a bit of my own flare to it

I contacted the artist who drew that so thanks for that heads up!

seforin

hey everyone, Just wanted to give a update, Baked out the blimp

Blimp is sitting on 5420 tri's, Pug sits at 2870 tri's and the goggles sit at 716 tri's

All together adding up to 9006 tri's , 1k less then I was expecting this to be!

Anywho here's the bakes so far and AO , nothing yet as far as textures go.






Edit:

Quick LULZ

kid908

I really don't know what to make of this... haha pretty funny and looks pretty good too. Good work, esp on the dog.

seforin

Thanks for the kind words.


And one more Lulz update.

seforin

ok just a few more updates...going to be leaving town this sunday and going home for a bit...so I gotta wrap this guy up!

Oiban

looking great hahah love the design!

Wells

NICE!

i'm a bit late to the party, but

i think the fins had much more interesting shapes in the concept. got them rakish angles

and your straps are floating around the balloon.

Alberto Rdrgz

Dood! this is good! hahah pure awesomeness.

Un_Delincuente

Haha this is awesome. One thing that i could say is that the little pug is looking a lil to stiff, maybe if you just make his bottom half bend down wards a bit so it looks like he is actually being carried by the device.

feanix

This is the best thing. The best.

Mark Dygert

Hahaha awesome... Yea I'm not so sure about the pedal now and the straps on the balloon are floating but over all its full of win.

skankerzero

seforin wrote: »

ok just a few more updates...going to be leaving town this sunday and going home for a bit...so I gotta wrap this guy up!

WAT?

I don't even...

seforin

skankerzero wrote: »

WAT?

I don't even...

lol, im flying out this sunday to texas for a potential prospect (*crossing fingers*) and then Im flying from texas to FL to visit my family for a week.


Thanks for all the nice comments everyone!


I agree with the fin's , and I also agree that he is stiff and I also agree the straps need to be fixed.

And I had some comments offline about fixing some texture things.


So I will need to fix the model a bit, continue texturing it some more, and then Rig him so he isnt so stiff

If I get him rigged I might do a simple animation rolling...I'll see what I can do before sunday!

Rhinokey

seforin wrote: »

I also had the original design but when I was working on it I had a few people tell me that the design does not make sense there was nothing holding him in place...then someone mentioned how did he control it..pug farts? (hince the butthole) So I figured to add a bit of my own flare to it

I contacted the artist who drew that so thanks for that heads up!

waaiitt a minute, it did not make sense.. so making it a super smart dog controling an airship with farts was the idea to make everything logical?

it would make just as much sense to say he controlss the weather to guide it where he wants,
or he is a telekinetic.

or my favorite, some mad inventor thought his dog wanted to see the world and made a baloon for him, not realizing the dog will end up a tiny skeleton attached to a baloon in a bit. (the baloon is solar refilling and never deflates