Making Cartoon characters

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.