Demon Rabbit Character
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Hey-hey!
Ive drawn up a rough idea of what I wanna make and its this rabbit-demon thing.
Ive been trying to nail down some decent anatomy (looking into Kangaroos and such) and further inspirations for adaptation but it would be great if I could get feedback in any areas.
Im gonna try and implement the muscles in Max as best I can before I take them into ZBrush, so advice for them would be great.
Apologies for the middle seam, but Ive yet to weld the two parts together.
Ive drawn up a rough idea of what I wanna make and its this rabbit-demon thing.
Ive been trying to nail down some decent anatomy (looking into Kangaroos and such) and further inspirations for adaptation but it would be great if I could get feedback in any areas.
Im gonna try and implement the muscles in Max as best I can before I take them into ZBrush, so advice for them would be great.
Apologies for the middle seam, but Ive yet to weld the two parts together.
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Here's some of my inspiration:
I'll see if I can develop the tail to lean towards the rodent design more, but I'm not sure how at the moment.
_Revel
Can you suggest where they could be placed?
Do you think if I bent him forward even more, it would make it more 'creature-like'. Perhaps like this? http://www.tubapants.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/trex.jpg
Quite like the collar tag idea too.
Owh about the collar tag, you can make it instead of a tag but make it as an iron ball like the one that chained to the leg of a prisoner..lol
_Revel
I like where your heading with this though
Other than that, I'm curious why you make the front teeth so long like that?..it looks like blocking when it want to eat something, it's lower jaw also cannot open as wide as the teeth's length.
_Revel
@ Jungsik
Ok, I think I see what you mean. Ill try and ground the feet and go for a tiger style foot. Might bring it away from a human appearance too.
You guys reminded me to look back at my references and I noticed that a lot of them have the reverse leg as opposed to what Ive made. I think if I go for that it might help to deviate away from the human look and fit better.
@Reve
Im finding it hard to create the anatomy for this because I cant get my hands on references that are appropriate and show muscles clearly. The only ones that were decent were for humans and theyre only useful for muscle placement and proportions to an extent.
Id quite like to keep the teeth large but I might play around with them a bit to see if theres a better way of having them.
Ill definitely sort out the lower jaw to make sure the teeth fit, on closing. Ill try and smooth out a better jaw line too.
@LRoy
The big teeth were just an instinctive thing really, after rabbit first popped in my head. I did have a little look into sabre-toothed stuff and I think youre right. Ill look into placing them so they fit better. I might make them shorter and broader too. That reference is great by the way. Ill try and mix it in with this.
@ Dim
I do like sausages, but alas they have no place here. Can you describe how I could improve them (my muscles, not sausages)? Would it be better if the arms narrowed at the hands and broadened at the shoulder? Or do you mean that the individual muscles dont flow into each other?
Glad you like
I noticed you have that demon dog thing as some reference so look at that again too
Nice advice. Ben a bit short on time lately but here's a little progress.
I've rotated the torso upward to make sculpting the abs more easy and straightened the arms.
Most progress has been around the arms.
However, the sculpting is looking good, though I'm not a big anatomy/musculature buff
I hope that helps some
This project's focus is to improve on what was a poorly executed first idea:
I wanted to recreate this idea with more convincing anatomy and an improved texture.
Given that Im rather inexperienced in this area of creating anatomy, I was staying close to the human/biped build, without mirroring human anatomy exactly. So, Im repositioning human anatomy in a creature appearance (hunched posture).
Davision's Rodent Faction is a good example of the kind of anatomy and style I' going for, but more human than I want.
Earth Worm Jim's Peter Puppy was another example of the thing I was hoping to head toward, but it's been hard find references for him.
So for anatomical references, the hulk is pretty good.
The t-rex leg position was a useful avenue of research, setting out how the leg placement distance and size.
The Jaw is my next area Ill need to fix. The teeth dont match so, as suggested, a sabre tooth tiger will help map out their position.
_Revel
I'll most likely return to this sometime in the future and re-think it entirely, but for the time being and given the short amount of time I have for this, I'm gonna stick with it.
great improvement from the last model but i want to see more!!!!!
edit: Theres some muscles that dont really make sense
The two little muscles between your bicep and your pectoral muscles are really bothering
Any better?
Forgive the name...