Got it to a point where I can take crit... Or at least take some tips on making him not look terrible from here on out.

Right click and save the image or copy and paste the image location into your browser address bar, then you can see the full size.





I know about the problems with his arms and thighs... also going to fix his back/spine area... too sharp for my tastes, making him look a wee bit unnatural.

I hate Pokemons.... I must say that isn't to bad of a model though... Needs a lotta work from what I can see.

Yeah, 'chu is fat.


Good for you.


derp.

spartan laz0r + pika = win



Take glasses and skills before judging. The model looks cool to me, just inadapted tri.

EDIT : Make a render with standard grey material +skylight pl0x. (look at F9-F10)
Edited by bourrin33 on Apr 6, 2011 at 03:06 PM

For a static object that that pikachu will be alright, but if your planning on rigging it then it is completely wrong. The topology is not build up correctly on any part and the arms should be attached.



Although the above example is a completely different kind of character and design, the rules and topology still applies. As you can see the edge loops go round areas such as the eye's and mouth and overall face. This is so that realistic facial animations can be made.

The same applies to the arms and legs and toe's. Edges must slow correctly in order for rigging to use the correct verts and move the geometry in a realistic manor.

Good attempt, you have a decent model, just not for an in-game character. Just telling you this so that you don't get into a habit of modelling characters in this way.

Before modelling another character research into the correct topology, and further more research the reasons behind it so that you understand. Understanding WHY allows you to model better topology without needing to copy examples.

Edit:
You also need to distribute you triangles evenly. For example the stomach is WAY too low poly and needs more polygons distributed to it. The lighting will be calculated badly on that area due to the lack of verts which can be used to create shading.


Edited by anonymous_2009 on Apr 6, 2011 at 03:15 PM

ftfy

Imagine using the pikachu as a sentry that rotates and fires splaser projectiles at everything within range. LAWL. Okay, maybe a sentinel beam projectile.

I want to give him better topo... should I just add and move verts around or remodel sections?

Tbh ive not actually tried any character modelling myself so I can't advise HOW to do it, I just know HOW it should be. So I don't know, experiment :P

Remove edges and cut them back in to try and get a similar facial structure to the example, then apply the technique to the rest of the body. I do facial modelling at Uni in afew months :P

^

what he said

my input would be, work with quads, extrude the edges, place them appropriately. I'm seeing way too many triangles. granted sometimes they're unavoidable, but you should avoid them as much as possible for character models.

this is a tut for low poly character box modeling for blender, though it could be applied to anything I'd imagine. it covers the basic of the basics, including the basics of topology and doesn't get into too detailed of a character, but should give you an idea of where a good starting point would be

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/blender/character-modeling-in-blender-basix/

start around 11:00 if you don't care about blender basics

Old wip, i'll post more pics if people want :P

sure lets see a full size image of it.

I WAS working on a new shader thingy and I finished it. Ill post a wip of it later if you want, it's different to this. The final render I made is sexy. If you want to see it, post if you want me to.




This is the worst wip ever. The final is... *insert most awesome word ever here*

Edited by Shade117 pro on Apr 16, 2011 at 07:45 AM

Damn, that looks sweet. Those Halo 3 Beta bipeds suck balls, but this is awesome.

Bloom on arms?

You havent seen the best ive got yet.... (or until you ask)



Thats from a badly placed omni light, that's why the orignal render of it was a medium shot.

Oh and these suck horse*poop* compared to the final of the MK6 render....

I Asked.

I like shiny bipeds...

lol pokemon reference

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1198

SHINY SHINY SHINY!!!!!!!!!!!! V! V!!

(I feel sorry for anyone not getting teh "V!" reference.) (It's from "SE" by the way.)

Their armor looks like it was oiled up...

peni's (this is the final render and shaders).

The final is... *insert word here*

EDIT: Stupid photobucket resized the image from its original res which was 1920x1080. Oh and rendering this isnt even a problem... The rendering time is soooooooooooooooooo... *insert estimated time adjective here*

Edited by Shade117 pro on Apr 17, 2011 at 12:54 AM

That is just pure epicness right there.

Looks nice, but theres something missing on the rubber shaders. I cant say what

Edit: quoted your post, I'm nice.
Edited by bourrin33 on Apr 17, 2011 at 03:22 AM

And I must ask this every time,

Why isn't this released yet?

Maybe he's still working on it, or wants it in-game and it's too high poly and is trying to rectify that.

Remember that render is in 3ds max, which is MUCH more powerful at rendering that Halo:CE. It also doesn't need to render 60fps but instead it can render at like 1 frame per hour if it wishes.

So it won't look that good in-game.

Touché

I thought all of you guys would've known this was 3ds max... Oh well, it only takes 9 seconds for me to render at 1280x720 resolution.

9 seconds?

That's some scrubish time you got thar sir

around 9 seconds :P but yeah, I don't have the best processor around ya know.

Thats off topic, but shade, do you think you can make a cubemap just by backing the reflection of an unwrapped cube in 3ds max ? Seeing the nice reflection you have on this visor, I'd like to have this as cubemap in CE.

He is watching you.

Too shiny, I know.













Just did a shader to test my fakebump method.

What do you guys think?

That's pretty freaking good! Nice job. Maybe the method could use a little work for the afakebump but looks better than a lot I've seen! I would say shadow the fakebump just a tad more and you would be good!