Asterix

solo

What is the reasoning behind the color-coded body proxy?

So I can rig the pose, I select by materials then use 'move' or 'protractor' tools to move the mesh.

So say I select yellow, red and light grey, that will move the whole left leg, then if I select red and grey, I can then rig from knee down on left leg, etc.

d12dozr

Gotcha...I figured it was something clever. Thanks!

tadema

Pete, they are great. I really should try modeling different things in SU rather than sticking at the one dimentional "structures". I tried Artisan but gave up after a couple of hours!
John

allanx

Nice Pete, you are really good at this stuffs with great proportions even with those plugins I bet it's still hard to model them in SU.

Great talent and pure Awesomeness....

allanx

honoluludesktop

Very nice, It is instructive. If you do this again, and remember, show us the raw construction of the detailed parts before you apply Artisian. Thanks for posting.

nomeradona

again very nice. really the super guru of sketchup modelling.

sepo

Great stuff Pete. You make SU so appealing to use for character modeling .

SHAHEEN

Brilliant ..

solo : how much time does this take ?

solo

@unknownuser said:

solo : how much time does this take ?

That all depends on how much detail you want and knowing when to stop.
Asterix took about 2H30, I could fiddle for another 5 hours (as I so often do) but the result would be similar just heavier.

Here is a fast Thea render with feint line overlay.

solo

Dogmatix, around an hour to model, Today being Memorial day (read BBQ day) I had limited time with SU, family demanded my attention...sheesh!

mukul.ar

Good Job Pete...! you are an inspiration...

rock1

nice work solo ..looks like i'm looking at toys in a showroom

sketchnl

[quote="solo"]Dogmatix, around an hour to model, Today being Memorial day (read BBQ day) I had limited time with SU, family demanded my attention...sheesh!

Yeah Solo, I believe it's everyone's problem on this forum. .

I really like your organic SU shapes. Still don't know how you do that. and drawing that fast! very cool

david_h

My favorite characters! I have a lot of the books in French.

I am a huge fan of Asterix, Obelix and Idefix. (his French Name!) Nice job.

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lapx

Solo, time to quit playing around and retire...write that instruction book! If you need an investor I'm in
Think of all the kids (adults too) you can influence with your instructions "drawing cartoons with sketchup". Its a winner!