On The Run Animation

Artwork Works in Progress
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I’ve started working on an animation that I’m going to be entering in film competitions at my high school, and another school that specializes in film production. So I want my short film to be as polished as possible. I’m starting this thread to recieve any helpful crits/suggestions that I can get. Plus I’ll site anyone who can really help me improve my animation if they would like.

So far I’ve rendered about 10 seconds of an opening car chase sequence. I’m working now on creating one of the two main characters. Here are some preview renders.
http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/wake101/?action=view&current=joe1.jpg
http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/wake101/?action=view&current=joe2.jpg
http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/wake101/?action=view&current=joe3.jpg

I would greatly appreciate modeling or skin texturing suggestions. Just keep in mind that the style is cartoony so please don’t harp on it’s unrealistic apperance.

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The face has slightly odd structure, but thats ok. The crotch area looks quite bad though - not that round, a bit sharper would be good.

Not a bad start to texturing it. Look into UV-mapping, which allows you to finely tweak the colour of the model at different places.

Aligorith

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okay heres an udate. Fix’s to Joe’s model (character)

-took advice and brought legs closer to gether to fix the crotch area problem. Still to round though? let me know.

-eyes looked greyish to me so I increased saturation

-added fingernails

-tweaked face a bit to rid it of odd bumps

any other advice would be appreciated, here’s a new preview image.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/wake101/joe4.jpg
joe4.jpg800×600

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The irises of the eyes look a bit too shiny. Adding a texture of some sort would help.

The crotch area looks much better :slight_smile:

Aligorith

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He looks like a hippo!

No, serious, he isn’t realistic, but I don’t know what you intended to make.

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ok well, please tell me how he looks like a hippo and how I might be
able to fix that.

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finally got some hair I sorta like.
Here’s a new image

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/wake101/joe5.jpg
joe5.jpg800×600

I also reduced spec on the irises.
Let me know what you think.

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The hair right next to the ear looks a bit too abruptly cut off. It seems that your hair material might have a texture set to global (the right eyebrow has the same colour as the right side of the head).

The eyes look much better now. :slight_smile:

Aligorith