Making Cartoon characters

kwistenbiebel

Again, Too good to be true. Pretty amazing stuff.
I bet you are good at drawing and painting as well, aren't you?
I am starting to notice that to really model well, you have to have the same eye a sculptor or other graphical artist has.

You definitely have it my man!

If only you would not have forgotten to push 'rec' and some hours later 'stop'in Camtasia.....
That would have been really useful.

solo

NahI It's just that I really enjoy making these.

I have been busy on another one, taking more time than i am willing to invest however.

Chris, yes I do sketch and do sculpturing, I attended art school and did two years fine arts.

boofredlay

Inspirational

lapx

I'm telling you bro, you should be teaching and spreading your 3d wisdom. I'm sure you would get a full class. Do you teach SU to children? I think you could build a pretty good following. Imagine the world populated with Solo's.

solo

Y'all are too kind.

Okay, enough messing around, I need to get some billable work done, I end the Toon stuff with the trio.

Burkhard

Go to Boulder and show some of the stuff!
I really enjoy it. Thanks Solo

utiler

@pav_3j said:

i better stoip posting before the second bottle gets opened

ha ha

pav

it appears that the second bottle has been opened.....LOL

Incredible work solo, you have a keen freeform eye....

juanjo06

buenisimo men!!!

urgen

...HA-HA-HAA!

spadestick

AMAZING stuff... you are the Sketchup Master!!! I've never seen anyone else pull this off!

dolphus

Awsome you move the goal posts out of sight brilliant!!!!

marked001

yeah...all of these characters are so damn crazy...who ever thought in a million years that someone would be able to produce something like this in sketchup!

Jon

Are you kidding?!

Mike Lucey

Pete, not alone have you produced excellent SU cartoon character,
but you have also managed to produce the 'character' of these
character in SketchUp, well done

Mike

solo

Thanks again guys.

I have recieved a few emails and PM's regarding how I create my base shapes which in essence is the main mesh which once created can be tweaked to create a character. So here is a quick idea of how I create my base forms.
I firstly make a rough form using rectangular polygons and pull and shape to a rough shape of what I am trying to achieve. I then use the magic plugin called Subdivide and smooth which turns my angular form to an organic one.

See clip below of the beginning of Patrick star of Spongebob fame.

Now that you have a base model you can use the sizing tool, JPP, FFD, sandbox tool, etc to smooth, warp and manipulate the mesh to create the details.