Big ambitious project, little preview things

Artwork Works in Progress
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Well I’m starting on a big ambitious animation project. It should be 10 or 15 minutes long. And I think the time has come to show you a bit of what I’ve done.

http://www.weirdhat.com/penny/penny.jpg A penny. It’s important.

http://www.weirdhat.com/penny/mayor.jpg An important mayor guy.

http://www.weirdhat.com/penny/paul.jpg The main character.

http://www.weirdhat.com/penny/paultest.avi A quick test I made today. This is not likely to actually be part of the movie.

There is more but I am not going to show it yet.

Hopefully I can finish this. If I do it should be really cool. :slight_smile:

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try to make the guys look a bit rounder. now you can tell it’s cubes with subsurf.

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It looks cartoonish, chances are, you intended it to be cartoonish. One piece of advice, though , might wanna keep the kiddies away from that mayor-guy, coz his head looks like it could also be something else…
Nonetheless, excellent blendig, especially for a WIP.

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nice setup dude =D

by what you’ve told me of the story so far i can’t wait to see it done =)

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the guys look extraordinarily ugly, come from the same base mesh, and are rectangular, and unproportional, but besides that, they’re pretty cool! :smiley:

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Other than what has already been mentioned, I believe you have the controls ‘right’ and ‘left’ reversed. The way your character describes them is based on the viewer’s perspective and not the characters.

In other words, if your character was describing how to steer a car, the way it is now, you would have the driver turn the steering wheel right to go left, and left to go right. Not a good idea :wink:

Hope that was clear enough.

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Well, I do have them reversed, but not for that reason. The vehicle in the animation is an airplane, and I thought that you would lift the back of the right wing to turn left. But apparently I’m wrong. Just watch the animation in a mirror though, and everything will be okay. :slight_smile:

I keep looking, but I don’t see the rectangularness you’re talking about.

Yes, it’s supposed to be cartoonish.

All the other stuff you guys said I agree with.