[::nox|silicon::]

Hi all! just working on a Characteranimation for my final exam at Arts School... it's a 3D-Short of a little blue Alien (working-title "zapo") who is quite clumsy and flies around in his UFO, listening Walkman and therefore doesn't see/hear some warning-lights, hits the moon and strands on earth finally (location: some desert in texas), there he gets out of his trashed ufo and the first thing he sees is a little neat goofer staring at him, who gets fried by him instantly. at this moment, a police-officer (typical texas-style sheriff) arrives at the site and tells him to freeze, what he - of cause - does not do and a funny fight between the two of them (featuring matrix-esque bullet-time fx and bells and whistles) enflames between the both of them... so far for episode 1 - I'll release a second one at a l8r point...
So here are 3 shots of Zapo... Comments and Crits would be HIGHLY APPRECIATED
I'd also love to hear Comments, Crits, Suggestions, Ideas and stuff on the story so far





Thanks!!!

Regards,
nox


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[ March 07, 2002: Message edited by: ::nox|silicon:: ]

[::nox|silicon::]

nothing? not one single comment? is it really THAT bad?

[Jolyon]

Hi.

This may just not be everyone�s cup of tea, don�t panick. Always persist.

Ok well a few things I�d say, is that if he�s going to have such a big head maybe make his neck shorter... I mean it is meant to be a comic type character isn�t it, it�s just the proportions are very... different. The whole thing is quite top heavy. The style of the suit is extremely sixties b-movie, maybe that was intended?

Another thing I noticed is that when you look at it, it�s as if you�re looking at two separate things... the head.. and the body. Maybe try and get some sort of coninuity going with the whole thing. It looks as though you made a head and then added a body. Hope some of this helps.

[arkoh]

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Originally posted by Jolyon:
It looks as though you made a head and then added a body

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Bang on... when I looked at the first picture, of the head on its own, I thought: charismatic and with a sense of belonging to the plot you were describing, NOT bad! But when I scrolled down and saw the full body shot... well first of all, it looked alot different from what I had emagined the body to look like, seing the head, and second of all it looked exactly as Jolyon mentioned... I simply couldn't match the two!

You mention, that this character is somehow the funny clown of the plot... I see that in the head, but I dont see any funny attitude in the body! It simply looks to human-like! I would suggest, either to go for a completely different approach to the bodys anatomy... make it more Alien-like, OR... to give the body a bit more "freaky" proportions, more attitude more character more as a caricature of the human body!

It doesn't really work for me, as it is now!

Keep updates coming!

Good luck!

[gArGOyLe^]

I think a potbelly and really short legs and a wobbling head would seem nice ..

[::nox|silicon::]

Thanks for the Crits! And yes - you're right - that's exactly what disturbed me too and therefore I'm just working on a new body...
I was looking at something more like this (just a quick 3 min. sketch)...

and am going to model this right now
This way I think it's a bit more balanced and - most important - way more funny

jolyon: yeah, the 60's B-Movie style is intended - he'll also fly a Saucer and his gun will be in that style too... but you're definitely right that the body sucks...

arkoh: thanks for the suggestions! guess it worky quite cool with anatomy such as in the above sketch...

gargoyle: yeah... he'll be quite some wobbly/slacky kind'a guy his antenna will swing along with his movements and I think the new body will be quite a bit "wobbly"


I'll post a shot of the new model as soon as it's worth showing... thanks for the c+c dudes!

solong...

-nox