[MUTANT] Basketball, rctorres

rctorres

Hi everyone! Here's my entry. I plan on giving him some spots or some other patterns (could be a cool way to make variations). Haven't decided on a team name/number/name.

ortho drawing:


original thumbs:


Some pattern ideas:


zsphere rough:

OrganizedChaos

Haha, I'd love to see this guy in action! Neat idea, definitely gives off a reptilian vibe on the first glance, good job pulling that off. Feels very alien.

Tadao215

the face and hands do look very amphibian like. great stuff!

brandv3d

Just like tha old Mutant Hockey League

Takes my way back to good old 1994.

POFFINGTON

I like em, keep them shorts short! Is he going to have a frog tongue? cause if it did, he could do slam dunks with it. Think of that for a beauty shot

rctorres

Thanks guys.

poff: He'll definitely have a tongue, but I picture he'd just stick it out like MJ while hanging off the rim.

I've been bouncing between working the low and sculpting the high, here's an update:



This topology is nowhere near final. I know I have some elbow room to play with and areas I need to address, but I'm going to hold off until the sculpt is done so I can make better decisions.

rctorres

Today's update. Just gotta finish up the shirt, shorts and shoes, then polypaint!

Snipergen

Damn good sculpt rctorres, love the arms!

ranek

super crispy. nice.

Swizzle

Really good stuff. He looks a bit like a frog, so have you considered making his shoes shaped like some sort of big frog feet?

rctorres

Thanks guys...

@Swizzle: That's a good observation, he's definitely inspired by tree frogs. I really wanted to give him some Chuck Taylors, I'll toy with making them big and stretched to accommodate frog feet, or maybe something different altogether. Thanks!

rctorres

Bigger shoes idea...

POFFINGTON

Perfect! Love the shoes being huge. The MJ Idea could be killer.

rctorres

Poff: Might do one where he's using the tongue to steal the ball from someone else too.

POFFINGTON

RAD! Do it!

TehSplatt

love those Silhouettes man pretty awsome

Baddcog

Looking awesome, I kind of like the original feet better though.

MDSchee

hey! nice! aw is going to be in a Spur colors aint it?

rctorres

Here's my finished high poly.

DockRock

This guy is looking pretty awesome!I look forward to seeing more!

rctorres

Textured, still ironing some things out but I'm happy where it's going.

leslievdb

very nice work on the texture , maybe you could make the eyes black and give them some hard spec to make them pop out more atm they're a bit unreadable

fabio brasilien

He turned out great! But His head looks a bit low res textures comparing with the rest.
Yes dark eyes will look great on him

Goeddy

wow this is epic. although u got some minor baking errors on the wristbands. maby readjust the projection cage if your going for perfection.

POFFINGTON

Looking awesome! Dunno how I feel about him being bluish and his jersey being the same relative color, seems to get lost in the comp to me. Maybe a complementary color for the jersey and shorts? This is of course a minor crit. Love where the polycount logo is at.

MDSchee

dang, that was quick. looking nice

rctorres

Thanks guys. Yeah, while I was packing my UVs I had to make some concessions and sacrifice texel density in face in favor of asymmetry on the jersey and detailed patterns arms. I was hoping to have time to do a lot of variations for skin pattern and color, but I got tied up with a lot of other stuff.

I think if he was on an iPhone or something, you'd rarely be up close. Definitely a big regret though.

Anyway I'm out of time because of some other projects and the holidays, so here's where I ended up:

@MDSChee: I reaaaally wanted to give him the silver and black for you buddy, but I did give him good ol' number 20. GINOBILIIIIIIIII

spec sheet:

textures:


Did a quick sculpt of a ball based on the box-art from NCAA College Slam


beauty shots:




aaaaand some comp images:

DockRock

Looking good! It's sad EA never made that Mutant League Basketball game but I imagine a dude like this would fit right in. Nice work.

Sukotto

Nice! Though I wish you'd have given more UV space to the body and head and less to the arms and legs because the pixelation is very noticeable on his face.

skankerzero

excellent!

Great call on the basketball too!

Japhir

Very cool! I totally missed this so far .

MDSchee

nice! the pose is awesome!

rctorres

Thanks guys

OniLolz

Really great! I love his color and his tongue. The only criticism I have is the low resolution in the face, but the overall is awesome!

MattQ86

Great colors. This is one of those threads that keeps bringing it.

TylerFluharty

This turned out fantastic. Great character!

ranek

SICK... great character!

TonyClifton

Looks like fun! Well done!

Urserker

From concept to finish, this looks great. I really dig his design!

A quick little thing I noticed that may have slipped by you was in your last image with him getting ready to dunk, you forgot to clean out the gray background under his little left arm. :P I just thought I'd point that out in case you still hadn't caught it.

Overall, I really enjoy the poses and character!