Wednesday, 17 December 2008

yellow submarine movie















My new character style looks quite similar to the style of the yellow submarine movie. with the weird, freaky, psychedelic eyes and grin. This is interesting as i could make my whole style for the D and AD project like this. The idea for the project being a real life person interacting with my character through the computer screen. The portal into the computer could have this style, the computer could transform from being a boring white old computer with no name, into a HP imaginative creative computer bringing colour, psychedelia and objects to life.

new character


i used illustrator to create facial expressions for my character, and uvmapped them on top of the clothes i had put on him. As usual i wanted my character to have a quirky look, a strange personality! so i gave him the biggest cheesy smile, two different coloured eyes that scream at the camera. I changed the facial structure to suit his smile. The final image above has eyebrows and hair. I need to now rig him with bones so i can animate him for my D and AD project.

























I used the 'hair and fur' modifier to create the lovely locks on my character. I learned how to make the hair longer, shorter, frizz, colour, spike and flop. The only trouble is i couldn't save the hair in the place i wanted it to stay, when i reopened the file it would be spread all over the character. so i would have to do this last i think. But i like the reddy coloured hair, it goes with the red hoody he is wearing.






















modeling the ear and hood were the biggest challenges because once i extruded the polygons i had to then pull them back in to have that effect of the skin going back in and also that fold over of the hood.. but as a first attempt at more detailed modeling i think i have done pretty good.

Thursday, 11 December 2008

Divided Animation


The divided(3d City)





































These are the items of clothing my quirky 3dsmax character is wearing, i drew them and gave them texture using photoshop.