Making Cartoon characters

Mr S

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

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

STOP IT!!!!!

solo

Thanks

I started making Homer.

And rendered with 'toon tones'

david_h

Homer he's a bit easier

Hom

david_h

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

I'm Gumby-- Dammit!

solo

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

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

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

boofredlay

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

solo

Tintin

solo

Marvin the Martian.

I am almost complete with the entire Looney tunes characters.

bubbalove

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

solo

lol, you are right.

I edited my original post

boofredlay

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

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

david_h

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!

isn't his little tail cute?

david_h

Vince From Rex the Runt.

SHAHEEN

what a nice effort man !!

really they r incredible >>

jchau2007

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

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)