Look At This Character. Youll Like It (seno1)

[quinners3]

im pretty new to this online cg community stuff but dont worry youll like me. ive been working with maya and would like to share some with this internet so that the world from this internet can give me advice and or direction. moving on, this is a character for a short that i wrote, he is a poly mesh with just standard shaders and lighting for now. im still shaping out the body and fixing proportions and junk. i dont know how detailed i should get with the legs cause theres gonna be a cloth sim for is paaaaaaaants. well there it is then, take a look and please give me some feedback. i want it to be perfect. aaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiggggggghhht.

oh yeah, before you ask his head is hollow and empty, like a bowl.
thanks.......dennis

[allegro]

If he's always going to be clothed, then it's probably fine. Might be easier to tell what's going on (for crit purposes) if you were to composite a wireframe ontop of that though.

If he's not going to be clothed, I might refind the legs, and back a bit more though. The muscles don't really seem right the way they wrap around the character's side.

[quinners3]

thanks for the input, ill work on the back some more. heres some wireframes for you...

let me know what ou think my maaaaaan.

[e321]

Luuuuvvvv it

[quinners3]

thaaaaaaanks.... your so nice.

[e321]

Errrr, no I agree to disagree....the back of this was my second favorite part next to the head. gfffawww the only place that doesn't have the same stylistic muscle structure is the legs...hands feet head back great...maybe just a little more of the same type of muscle definition as the back and arms on the legs...cha cha cha I like the way you did it, frankly you don't really want it to look just like every other characters muscles you have ever seen do ya? A person gets sick of seeing that its just a bit different and I likesss it.

Got style?

[quinners3]

your right, im not going for photoreal, im going for pseudo real. i dont know how much detail im gonna put on the leg cause theres gona be a cloth sim on it for the pants. so i just wanted to have the form of the leg to drive it. what do you think?

[quinners3]

okay ive been working on this character and let me first clarify things by telling you about this character. in this short he loses his legs and uses this wheel thing to get around. here is an old design i made a long time ago....

this is the only pic i can show that can help describe what he has but its been updated many imes to a more real worldish type mechanical thing with shocks and stuff. so far this is what i have, its the front end and there will be wheels at the ends. still alot of work to do. what do you guys think?

[allegro]

I like the style of the drawing way better than the model.

The hands, and head in your drawing look way more unique and stylistic than the model. I like the vulture-ness, and that angular jaw much more in the drawing.

[e321]

Well, if you can't see it, it doesn't matter so if the guy is wearing pants why waste the time to detail his legs.

I think the character will look considerably different once he is detailed and textured...I personally am looking forward to seeing him finished - and seeing him without legs.

[quinners3]

heres an update. what do you think?