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anticz · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 9:37 pm

Here's a new one and an old one. First one I just finished texturing. Second one is a work in progress. Still needs textures. Comments welcome. Hope you enjoy.

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Kreuze · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 9:55 pm

Woo, for a wassamijigger, she's pretty hot! If I were him my eyes would be glowing too

nice work, would be really nice if they were animated

anticz · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 10:10 pm

here's a quicky test I did over lunch a week or so ago. He was still unfinished but it gives you an Idea of how he moves.

187k DIVX AVI
http://www.anticz.com/images/OtherWeirdness/animtest.avi

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::Dino:: · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 10:19 pm

Awesome characters

The movie clip was incredible...I just love the way he walks and his wiggly hat thingy. Are these characters for any sort of projectt? I think they would be terrific videogame characters. A definate possible franchise you've got on your hands

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Enayla · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 11:26 pm

I love how it seems as if they're made of velvet. So smooth and cuddly looking

Wish I had cool eyes like that... heheh.

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Elijah · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 11:45 pm

Great, I can't wait to see the girl's character animation, it could be all slick and smooth or whatever, there is so many possibilities to the interaction between these 2 cool characters

catnip · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 5:19 am

this is fantastic!
I'm a beginner,so I have to ask, Is this
Bryce? Great and unique Originality!!!!!
Please let us (or me Know) what software
you [email protected]

RenderMan · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 6:14 am

Very nice. Is this 3dsMax 4? How did you achieve the soft, velvet look? Orin Naylor Blinn Shader? Man, I'd kill to see a snapshot of that material : )

Sean

Jezebel · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 7:31 am

These are great! So cute!

Beth

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travis travis · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 7:56 am

most excellent character designs!

anticz · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 12:17 pm

Kreuze,
Glad you found her appealing. That's the idea.

Dino,
Thanks a ton. Glad you approve.

Enayla,
Thanks, you're not bad yourself. Thanks for all the desktops you've provided me with over the year.

Elijah,
Can't wait to get to the animation myself.

catnip,
Not that it really matters but these were done in Max4.

RenderMan,
Yep, Oren-Nayer Blinn and a couple little tricks.

Jezebel,
Thanks Beth! How's your mod coming. Hope it's going well.

travis,
Cool, glad you like.

Delucubus,
NURBs? Ughhh. No NURBs please. I'm using Meshsmooth in Max (catmull-clark sub-division surfaces). Here's what the control mesh looks like.

Super light wieght and fast to work with. Then it gets sub-divided at render time to look like this.

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Subliminate · member Member # Joined: 02 Mar 2001 Posts: 81

I've searched far and wide for a good 3d Studio Max Tutorial and nothing!
To make it all the worse, all books on 3dsm only cover what tools do, and
don't even approach modeling, I've found good books on Maya... but I'd
rather stick with 3dsm cause it's so much more popular. Anyway, you gotta help.

WHERE AND HOW DID YOU LEARN 3D STUDIO MAX!?
---------The last thing I want to do is go to art school!

anticz · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 3:51 pm

Subliminate,
I went to art school. Seriously, it's not the tool it's the artist using it that creates great work. You need to learn how to use traditional tools like a PENCIL and PAPER first. Color theory, composition, studio lighting, sculpture, figure and life drawing all apply to the computer too. If you can't paint with a traditional brush then Photoshop ain't gonna help. I came from a stop motion animation background and I can honestly say, I learned more about animation and modeling playing with lumps of clay and 16mm cameras than I'll ever learn on a computer. There's also a couple little tutorials on my site. I'm tring to find time to update and add more of those. Hope this helps.

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Subliminate · member Member # Joined: 02 Mar 2001 Posts: 81

Amen chief, well said. I saw the site and
it's not bad! Not bad at all... the only
thing that sucks is that I can't simply
download everything I'll ever need to know
about art and be able to end the learning,
of course that's impossible because
learning is an eternal process. I just
wish I knew 3dsm... it seems photoshop is
slowly loosing it's oomph and I gotta move
on to either flash or something 3d. Flash
tutorials are everywhere but 3dsm tutorials
are irritatingly hard to find. I'll stop
whining now but if you find something
good "link it up!!!" (please!)

Waldo · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 5:42 pm

OtherWeirdness.

Will her eyes be glowing as well? Nice update to your site too and oh yeah, how's the achilles coming along?

Spooky · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 10:19 pm

I must say I really like these as they are a nice change of pace from the typical hard-edge robotic, machine-like and human-forms often seen in 3D. Not only have you created interesting looking characters, but you've molded them, lit them, textured them and animated them to show life! The male reminds me of a limp Flaming Carrot! Fantastic texturing like Enayla stated, fuzzy, very nice to see! It makes the characters that much more 'tactile'. Can't wait to see more!

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Matt Ryan · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 10:30 pm

a good place to start looking for tutorials is at maxforums.org, people will usually help you out there, just be nice or they will bite your head off. hehe

Delucubus · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 11:00 pm

Like everyone else has said those are great. What program are you using? Are you using Nurbs for these guys?

theresa · member Member # Joined: 05 Apr 2000 Posts: 200

AWW. he has a girlfriend!
awesome as always

-t

anticz · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2001 1:14 am

Waldo,
OtherWeirdness is basically my junk folder. Somewhere to post stuff up quickly. The achilles is good, still have about 3cm to build on the calf muscle though.

Spooky,
Great feedback. I almost put seems in to make him look like a stuffed velvet plush toy but decided not to because I thought that might make him look in-animate.

theresa,
Thank you peanut. Glad you approve.

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kaosAD · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2001 9:15 am

i love your work anticz... smashing, any chance of a tutorial on how you do that particle hair thing???

Magpie · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2001 9:39 am

You rule Mike.

Get em' moving already and we'll go out for beers.

Any chance of a drinking tutorial on your site?

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Francis · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2001 10:22 am

Hey Mikey

I was just thinking - what if you treated the floppy deal on her head more like hair than a hat (at least that's how I'm reading it, sorry if you intended something else)?

Anyway, nice work. Looks real goood.

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anticz · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2001 7:00 pm

Just finished the glowy girls textures so here she is. Hope you enjoy (wonder if anyone will even see this)

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three55ml · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Feb 2001 Posts: 13

The animation was awesome, and the textures are great. What are you using this for? Just a personal project?

travis travis · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2001 7:08 pm

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Originally posted by anticz:
Just finished the glowy girls textures so here she is. Hope you enjoy (wonder if anyone will even see this

I see it! Awesome. Really like your style, and fantastic rendering techniques

osk · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2001 7:15 pm

I had to bump this one to the top.
Amaizing work, just when I thought I was getting tired of 3d here you come and expire me all over. I love both of your characters and cant wait to see more test animations. I do have to agree with Francis though, about the hair going forward. I really adds something to her. Oh well is up to you.
good luck and keep up the work.