Making Cartoon characters

kwistenbiebel

Requests?

This is my favorite Belgian toon (made by Marc Legendre).
You'll probably see why

Marian

Another masterpiece SOLO
Here is some info on Jabberjaw who's just a small piece of my childhood, but he was funny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberjaw

bubbalove

How about Darkwing Duck?

boofredlay

Oh yea, I used to watch Jabberjaw too.
Nice work Pete.

Andrija Posarić

Solo, these are really amzing

I use sketchup daily, but obviously I have missed the release of these plugins that you are using. I will have to update my ruby collection, because I use simillar workflow as you do, but I do my organic modeling in max. I hope that it is as easy and fast to use as in max?

Keep it up, I really like your work

reymond

pete, cann your write us a easy to use tutorial as works correctly with the sub smooth?

thats perfect.

solo

Ely, check your Pm for model.

Coen & reymond, I will get to a tut later (attempt another video one)

Had a few other things to finish this morning so here is a fast darkwing duck, still needs detailing.

solo

Okay here is a fast tutorial, I believe this will help folk understand my process better.

In the .skp provided below are two components/models, one is the basic head shape and the other is a basic ear shape, both are rather simple.

Use these two shapes to understand how Sub-smooth works, now! Explode and group each model/component seperately. Click on on group and then on the subsmooth icon (and select 2 Iterations. Once both are smoothed, resize and position ear (make a copy of the one you smoothed for other side) and rhen using shapes (sphere) create eyes and nose.

It should look like this when completed.:

head smooth.skp

boofredlay

Beautifully simple. Thanks Pete.

madllama

Hey Solo!

Love your work! Really nice looking.
If you have some time over, maybe you can try doing Gizmoduck?

Keep up the good work!

//madllama

david_h

As long as we are all making requests. . . .. . .

Maybe I will give old Obelix a try myself. He's nice and round.

bubbalove

Hahaha.... Darkwing Duck looks fantastic! Is it possible to get that model from you Pete? I have someone here at work who will go crazy when he sees this! Awesome work dude!

madllama

@solo said:

jenjacob, I have done Asterix and Obelix, infact I did the entire Gaul village, the Roman outpost and a few legionares (Max, z-brush, SU). However I cannot even display them as it was done on contract and I waived my rights to them on sale (would not wanna p*ss my client off as they give me lots of work)

David, answer to you. Solo wrote this earlier in the thread.

Keep up the awesome work Solo!

//madllama