Al's Organics

dacad

Hi Allan

Really great low poly character you got there, one of the best i've seen in sketchup done based on real character.

If you allow me some coments, try to keep the good topology you have, like you have in the skull of the cow, in every parts of the model. Following shapes and muscles and keeping things fluid, this will help defining the muscles and shapes of the body easyly and avoiding strange meshs if you subdivide and shadows done by incorrect triangles (and if you will export them to other apps the mapping or animation will be better too).
please see the pictures below, just quick notes i write with my wacom, and i could be wrong since i'm seeing just one side jpg.

Tell me what you think.

Best regards

David

TIG

DacaD

Sometimes 'organic' forms do have noticeable 'creases' in them...
Perhaps Alan is simply using the direction of the splitting diagonal to mimic those - since flipping it is straightforward anyway, once it's made and can be 'rendered' as a test...

Alan Fraser

Actually, you're both right. What I do is smooth the finished mesh...but manually with the Eraser. This enables me to leave certain lines unsmoothed, delineating the major muscle groups, folds in the neck, detail around the eyes and nose etc. This provides much-needed definition in such a low poly character.
I don't leave the lines black as on this pic. What I do next is to select the entire mesh (with Hidden Geometry turned off, so it's not selected) Then I use the smoothing dialog box, racking the slider up till those black lines disappear. However, I uncheck the Normals box, producing crease lines...precisely as in the Subdivide toolbox.
You can see the difference this makes to an untextured low-poly head. I much prefer the creased version...and it's even more effective at a distance.

Alan Fraser

A little hand painting in Pshop...and the finished critter.
Now to use the Remember UVs script and put it in a few different poses.

solo

That's awesome Alan.

Sheep or pig next?

Alan Fraser

Already done pigs "Sooooeeee!" So it better be sheep.

solo

Those are brilliant looking pigs, wow. Great work Alan.

numbthumb

Awesome work! The art of low poly modeling at its best!
As Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Stinkie

@solo said:

Those are brilliant looking pigs, wow.

Yeah, wow.

pilou

Very cool animals!

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Bryan K

Wow!

designerstuart

@numbthumb said:

Awesome work! The art of low poly modeling at its best!
As Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

i love this guy - from "wind, sand and stars":
"It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of a human breast or shoulder, there must be the experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness"

now i know where the inspiration for all these boats / planes / cows come from!

dvd63

Hi Alan,
this cow and pigs are very beautiful.
I found on the warehouse of your cows much less realistic: the plastic inflated seemed.
You put at the disposal of all your animals?
Thanks
David