Making Cartoon characters

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.

solo · 13 Jan 2009, 21:51

Had some time to finish Bart, given more time I will improve on it.

boofredlay · 13 Jan 2009, 21:57

Great work as always Pete.
It seems Bart has gained a few pounds

solo · 17 Jan 2009, 19:04

Tintin

solo · 19 Jan 2009, 20:37

Marvin the Martian.

I am almost complete with the entire Looney tunes characters.

bubbalove · 19 Jan 2009, 20:44

Haha... I think it is 'Marvin' Pete, not 'Mervin' and these are great!

solo · 19 Jan 2009, 20:46

lol, you are right.

I edited my original post

boofredlay · 19 Jan 2009, 22:30

Dang it. I started working on Marvin last week and have not had a chance to finish him. No point in posting it up now.

Great work!!!

bubbalove · 20 Jan 2009, 15:23

Post it anyways Boo... I'm sure it will be awesome!

david_h · 20 Jan 2009, 19:58

one of my favorite Characters. ..

as long as they are just round or ovoid. . .I can handle it!. . . Besides. . I want to be on this little dog's good side when he takes over the world!

david_h · 27 Jan 2009, 20:16

Vince From Rex the Runt.

SHAHEEN · 30 Jan 2009, 17:51

what a nice effort man !!

really they r incredible >>

jchau2007 · 11 Feb 2011, 23:30

SOLO,
Are all yours cartoons done with the Artisan plugin only? Nice work and you are the master of the plugin.

All the best to you,
James

solo · 11 Feb 2011, 23:57

James,

There are some made with Artisan and the balance with SDS (previous version), SDS was great, but Artisan has so many new tools that making characters is now easier and faster than ever.

Without Dale's (whaat) tools these would be almost impossible. (okay, Blender may be done without it)

tfdesign · 12 Feb 2011, 15:45

Brilliant work Pete. I don't know what to say!

Is it possible to animate these? Put 'bones' in them?

pilou · 12 Feb 2011, 15:58

Sure, in Blender 0 $ or Messiah 10 $ for example

solo · 12 Feb 2011, 16:04

I dunno Pilou, I'm yet to find an app that can import a SU model and interpret the chaotic mesh in order to insert bones and joints without almost having to redo the entire thing.

tfdesign · 12 Feb 2011, 16:30

That's a very useful answer. Thanks. (stops me being lead up that garden path, rather than a better one!)

I've got Blender and Cheetah3D, which both do bones (but would rather use my fave modelling app ). I found this site trawling through loads of stuff about Unity. I don't know whether SketchUp would work though. If anyone has had success, please let me know.

Mixamo

(www.mixamo.com)

Tom

solo · 12 Feb 2011, 16:37

Tom,

I've looked at Mixamo before and it supports a wide range of formats, Sketchup is not one of them unfortunately. Sketchup mesh is to messed up IMO for any app to use.