Stadium people

solo · 27 Dec 2007, 16:30

Those are fantastic guys...

Tom, do you have a tutorial on how you create these characters in this format?

I make my own 2d characters for rendering, however they are clip maps/ alpha maps from tablet sketches/images.

Daniel · 27 Dec 2007, 19:40

Thanks, everyone, for your input. I've been away for the holidays, hence my silence. I will try your suggestions (the q-tips sound interesting, too bad I cannot use them), but part of the dilemna is being able to see the people from all directions, including from above.

boofredlay · 27 Dec 2007, 19:57

Tom, this is your opportunity to start making 2,5D people

urgen · 27 Dec 2007, 20:05

very-very-very nice! ...my loving SU-5

tomsdesk · 27 Dec 2007, 20:24

Daniel, I don't know how photoreal or up close you need to be...but this fake-it didn't take me too long:

Boo, even more trouble than trees...not much fudge factor allowed by most eyes.

Pete, I just trace an image then color it in...of course I'm heading for DWC not PR.

boofredlay · 27 Dec 2007, 20:55

@tomsdesk said:

Boo, even more trouble than trees...not much fudge factor allowed by most eyes.

Even for a master like you

solo · 27 Dec 2007, 22:12

Daniel, maybe this will work:

stadium folk.skp

boofredlay · 27 Dec 2007, 22:17

ROCK!

Those are awesome

tomsdesk · 27 Dec 2007, 22:21

LOL Pete!!! (Scared the cats even :`)

Anssi · 27 Dec 2007, 22:52

Lovely-I'm reminded of wooden toys I had as a child
Anssi

solo · 27 Dec 2007, 22:57

LOl@ the Cat

Thanks guys (took literally 5 mins to make)

Tom, I tried your SU people idea...thanks to tablet it worked as using squigly/freeform lines in not easy with mouse.

superman2ds.skp

tomsdesk · 27 Dec 2007, 23:05

Pete, nice job and absolutely on the tracing with a mouse...but I'm actually going for as few straight lines (lowest poly without looking too cartoon-y) as possible since I will be mushing them around in a DWC. I also scale the image up a bunch-and-a-half to get some inference snapping sanity.

Daniel · 10 Jan 2008, 00:11

My solution...I didn't have much time to experiment, and didn't know if I'd need any close views, so used a few FormFonts people, cloned them, changed their shirt colors, and made group components. Not perfect, but the client was happy.

tomsdesk · 10 Jan 2008, 01:26

Cool!

boofredlay · 10 Jan 2008, 03:22

GO VOLS!

Daniel · 10 Jan 2008, 13:59

Oops! My bad I'm not supposed to post my university work.

Daniel · 10 Jan 2008, 18:05

I've made a few decent models for my university work, that I would love to post. One model was very instrumental in selling them on the design. But they are an important client, and they requested I don't post their projects