Pete The Boxer

DJ_Aaron

hey their folks, my name's aaron im 16 and currently studying 3d animation at college. Ive always been lurking around these forurms and thought id post somthing.

Our brief given at college is charecter modelling. and within the brief you had to create a organic charecter, then rig it and then create a 20 second animation.

I decided to create a cartoon like, almost pixar inspired charecter, i also got influence from the stylized charecter tutorial on gnomon workshop. My charecter, named Pete is having a mid-time crisis who decided to take up boxing.

First made with z sphere's as a base mesh in zbrush. then imported into max for retopo work then modelled additional pieces - shorts,boots and boxing gloves.

still working on how im going to tackle the boxing boots ,

Cheers, would love some crit

DJ_Aaron

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Here is the refrance images that i used to get the proportions when in max and zbrush

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here is the boxing gloves that i have sculpted .

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And here is a close up!

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Come one guys!

DJ_Aaron

Im trying to create sneaker / converse styled boxing boots at the moment. crit and help would be appreciated

Jhburton

hehe its looking good very stylised although i would like to see a little more facial composition in the face... he feels really doughy right now an i know you want him to look like a cartoon but I´d like to see a tiiiiiny bit more anatomy in the face

DJ_Aaron

Cheers Jhburton, Come on guys i was hoping for a better response !

Shiniku

It's harder to critique something so intentionally stylized. If you were doing soemthing totally real, people would know what the errors were, but with this, a lot of things could just be written off as style.

People can tell if they like something or not, but to just say "I don't like it" without anything to back that up, or giving ways you could improve isn't particularly helpful. TO be honest, I like some things, and it could be good, but something about this piece just isn't doing it for me right now.

Definitely re-evaluate your forms, especially on the head and face.

Daelus

One thing that seems to stick out for me is the nostrils. They feel like they are almost concave or something. The general shape of the nose doesn't seem to say nose to me.

And like was said above, he's a little doughy and undefined, so it's hard to find something that could be wrong when it's somewhat abstracted.

DJ_Aaron

Yeah agreed guys, i guess its hard to decide the right and wrongs when its a stylized character, but as for the nose what would you suggest, to buff up the nostrils more, tighten it up more ?

cheers .

Sukotto

Agreeing with redefining forms, everything looks too soft right now. I would also go over his shorts again, look at some ref for boxing shorts because the folds look blobby right now.

I like his skinny legs but I feel his forearms are a little too skinny near the wrists. Thickening them up a little should be good

DJ_Aaron

the adjustments that ive made so far (not many) is that i have thickened the wrist which was a good suggestion and have added more cloth wrinkels below the shorts band - although i dont want to mess with the cloth to much as i will have to rig and animate this charecter.