[Zeeman]

Hey! I have holidays so "ahhh, what the heck!" altho i can't really animate stuff, i'm gonna create a fairly simple model, perhaps something long and stringy with eyes. I'll put some pics up soon

oh, i'll be using the 2 metal sound clip

[Zeeman]

well, i guess its back to work! I just doodled out a storyboard. I didn't draw my characters on there but i put an "X marks the spot" where they're supposed to stand in this shot.

[Zeeman]

here's the main character who's gonna talk. I just used the arms from June's challenge except i just smoothed the muscles out. I had the legs sitting somewhere on my hard drive and the body and eyes is what i whisked up in 20 min. i just forgot to subpatch it. it's a fairly low-poly model.

oh and he does have eye brows and eye lids.

can someone suggest how to put a mouth on this guy?

[Zeeman]

mouth in there thnx to puppet for help!

[puppet]

looking good

as for the mouth you can either do what i did which was to smooth shift a line of pollys inwards and shape it to give the inside of the mouth.

or

you could make an external mouth with just a pair of lips with this you may have make the teeth hidden until you use the "F" mouth shape.

hope you can understand what i mean

[Zeeman]

the eyelids look kind of messed but they're actually fine. don't know y it looks wierd this way. the little line sticking out of him are the skelegons. Yay! Riggin is almost complete!

[Zeeman]

here's what my other character which eats the metal might be like. I created it from scratch in about 15 min. I think i'm gonna leave it like this, perhaps make it just bounce around.

[Zeeman]

here's a test render that i did. My first attempt to animate and lip movements properly. I think its good by my standards.

But i noe that there's a lot of problems around the shoulders and fingers which can be easily fixed later. Rite now i was focusing on doing the anim.

[Zeeman]

i'm having a problem with the audio. When i load it it says:

"The specified WAVE format is not supported by direct sound"
then it says:
"Null points subroutine call"

what in blazes is that? some help please!?!

[puppet]

actually forget what i said before there was a problem with the wav file but ive fixed it now by resaving it as microsoft wav
it should work for you ill attach it to the rules post if i can

[voices3d]

I love the feet . I think if you have the right textures and the right render, simply models like the last screenshot usualy turn out awsome .

[Zeeman]

sorry guys, i probably can't go on for this comp this month... I got new job as a model rigger in a studio! (*surprising for a 15yr old!*) yay! I wont be able to work on this tho. I just wanna wish good luck to all the guys taking part in this comp. i would love to see how this turns out.

Later,
Zeeshan

[puppet]

sorry to hear zeeman...or should it be congratulations lol

good luck with the rigging

[MeanPi2]

Congradulations Zeeman on your early opportunity.