I’m sure you’re wondering what the hell a Kiwi Helmet is. Kiwi was a character from an old Genesis game called Shining Force 2, one of my favorite games as a kid. So what better way to get practice and help build a portfolio than model something I know?
Only the helmet is even marginally well done and still unfinished. The body looks like rubbish, so I didn’t bother to include that. Any and all comments welcome, of course.
Here’s a picture of the entire model thus far. The body was modeled a while ago while the head and helmet are much more recent. There’s been a temporary rig set up on the body just to give it some character for the time being, and even with the result being sub-par at the moment, I’m loving these new rigging tools!
I hope to be able to make the bumps on the front and back of the shells by bump mapping, but I’m not very good at texturing at the moment, so I’ll more than likely end up making them geometry along with better coloring.
