Making Cartoon characters

FenS · 12 Jan 2009, 17:46

Hi Solo,

i'm wondering, how many pictures do you use to create them?
I mean, i just see one picture in the request, do you go and look for a lot of pictures of the same cartoon from different points of view or do you just use one?

solo · 12 Jan 2009, 18:08

Thanks again guys.

Mr S, it's been a long time since I made a character, one gets rusty when one does not practice.
However I should get a moment later to give it a go (putting myself on the spot here)

fenS, well that depends on the character, I would normally search the net for at least two, a front and a side view, it does not have to be the same image from two views but rather images that I can use to model correctly.

solo · 12 Jan 2009, 21:54

I'm always up for a challenge, here you go, took 3 hours plus some change. A little heavy on the poly's due to the SDS meshing but overal I am satisfied.

Line and SU output, I may render it later

cheffey · 12 Jan 2009, 22:17

There you go walking on water again! Amazing work and in an incredibly short timeframe. It would take me 3 hours to model the handgun.

solo · 12 Jan 2009, 22:45

Thanks cheffey, most of it is symetrically repeated components.
This is cool, I altered some cel textures to make them cartoonish, I think it works great.

solo · 13 Jan 2009, 00:08

Mr S · 13 Jan 2009, 09:02

Hi Pete,

What can I say?
I made this request last night (Yosemite Sam) just before I finished work.
I come in this morning to find my request completed.

FANTASTIC!

It only took you 3 hours?
I'd spend 3 hours just thinking about how to try and do this.

I'm realy curious as to how you "fleshed out" a full 3D model from the simple 2D image I supplied. That was just a front view of the subject. Did you source side-on and back views? Or do you just rely on your own gut feeling as to the overall dimensions of the character. Based on your memory, perhaps, of watching the cartoon?

Also...

@unknownuser said:

This is cool, I altered some cel textures to make them cartoonish, I think it works great.

Are these "cel textures" something you use in Vue?
Or did you render using something else?

Anyway, let me just say again how impressive your work is.
You set in an incredibly high bench mark for us to aim for.
A great inspiration!

Regards
Mr S

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david_h · 13 Jan 2009, 15:29

Hear! Hear! Pete. AN Incredibly High Standard for us to achieve!

STOP IT!!!!!

solo · 13 Jan 2009, 16:11

Thanks

I started making Homer.

And rendered with 'toon tones'

david_h · 13 Jan 2009, 17:08

Homer he's a bit easier

david_h · 13 Jan 2009, 17:26

These characters are about my speed. All it takes is some Push Pull!

solo · 13 Jan 2009, 19:01

David, thats a cool Homer, I probably over did mine.

All it takes is playtime to get the hang of creating proxy's, here is Bart with image of proxy.

david_h · 13 Jan 2009, 19:37

In the interest of full disclosure, I got help on this Homer from the warehouse. I tinkered with it a little. The gumby and pokey are mine. It's just that Homer is basically a cylinder and some spheres. I like the subsmooth tool, but I still struggle with controlling it and using FFD.