The Draw Another Forumer's Character Thread

Overlord

Ziffelblict wrote: »

(Awesome pic)

<3<3<3

Ziffelblict

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Creambun 007 wrote: »

If you were looking for more PA characters to do, I would be honored to see me in 3d form. I whipped up this diagram to help quicken the process. Hope it helps



EDIT: Now that I look at it, the front view should probably have a much thinner waist. And I realized that's just not my face! If you do decide to make me, please use this face for reference instead of the one above:

Looks good, ill work on him next. ^^

Creambun 007

SWEET!

Ziffelblict

And the hits keep coming!, thats my sig, laying down. thanks for all the encouragement guys. this has been awsome for me too ^^, it has taught me to organize my 3d filenames and its actualy been a success merging all these files together. only crashed a couple times, hehe

Tam

Haha, yay, I'm in it now. Why is Creambun's hand on my head? It works with the expression though. Er, or could be construed the wrong way.

Kunkoh

He's a priest, you're a little boy. What's to misconstrue?

Ziffelblict

LoL wasn't thinking of that angle as i was merging him in,,,,,

Spoiler:

deep in the grips of sleep deprivation at 1am.

Creambun 007

Awesome work bro What program did you use to make these again?

Ziffelblict

its all 3dsmax9. This excersize is fun because its like speed building the models. Im using the same Bones system and the skin modifier to drive everyones animation so its not actually like recreating each whole character from scratch.

Here are some pointers for 3d workflow.

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You can see in this first view your images photoshoped together, putting the head onto the body, also you can see the blue lines going from side to front, you did a good job of lining most of the character up. i only had to fix the lower jaw, nose, and eyes in the front view(Pulling them down), so they would match in the left.

The setup of the actual character is fine for modeling, but as you can see once he was modeled i then had to do some funny editing on the arms to get them to be horizontal. This is how my particular bones setup is done, so i kinda have to fit/ adjust the model to the skeleton. Now this isnt always the case, other people model thier skelital rig with the arms at a 45degree angle. another way is to model first and build the entire skeletal rig to fit the chracater, but thats about 3-5 times the setup time.

the only other issue was the legs/feet, similar to the arms, but i just had to move them forward a bit.

So basicly the guys body is an object with a skin modifier, the skin literaly follows the bones as you animate the bones, so everything has to line up. and that all starts with a good reference drawing to start it off.

So much FUN!!^^

Creambun 007

Yeah, I forgot to put him into the default bind pose. I knew better dangit! I really appreciate you posting up your work flow. It's so neat to see the entire process from start to finish.

NightDragon

I seem to have missed this entire thread somehow.

These are awesome!

Ziffelblict

Heya, it's me again. i dont like the composition arangement, its kinda messy now.... does anyone have a sugjestion on how to better pose all these together? boring family photo shot? thanks in advance. ^^

desperaterobots

wowzers.

The fish eye lens might be making things difficult?

Fantasyrogue

This thread is great

MKR

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=63325&page=6

I feel that this bee we have created is very much an avatar of WB. Anyone care to take a shot at drawing one?

lyrium

Is there a double date in Prox and Mango's future?

Prospicience

haha awesome lyrium, never seen prox so cleaned up!

lyrium

I have to head off to work but I had to make this one because I have a soft spot in my heart for llamas. Here you go Mustang!

Veritas

hehe, that is awesome lyrium. Nice job!

Mustang

Ha, awesome Lyrium, I love it!

lyrium

Aw great, I'm glad!

Kunkoh

This isn’t exactly the right place (probably doodle would be best?), but it’s sorta close. Several months ago there was a “draw another former” thread, and I found these doodles from that. Probably won’t be able to recognize them, as my suck is strong; but figured I’d mention that just in case so no one finds them too creepy.

Mustang

Is it mully and forbe?

NightDragon

You have a thing for people with glasses?? (or maybe we ALL wear glasses....hmm?)

Top one looks like Alyce.

Sublimus

Alyce, red_panda?, greatnation are my guesses

And I dont need no silly glasses, so its not all of us!

Kunkoh

honestly, I have no idea. I didn't write down names or handles for them. It was in my work doodle book (the one I hide in my desk for when I get burnt out, and no one's looking).

er... the glasses, yes. yes I do. Ok, not really; I think just about everyone wore them actually. I did as well, till I got lasik.

Kunkoh

uhm..

(yeah, I need a lot of work.)

Tam

Hahaha yay!

MKR

MKR wrote: »

Raneados wrote: »

MKR wrote: »

I meant to check this thread when it was made but never did. Raneados, what is your opinion of the notion that your character is easy to draw?

for being so easy to draw he is not drawn nearly enough

Demi Gourd

We all know that isn't a pencil.

misosoup

Mustang

ARGH! Sombody step on it!

Tam

Miso, what have you done

NightDragon

...that is.......disturbing

srsizzy

wowza, I actually showed up once in this thread. I feel bad, I'm at this summer school thing, and I'm learning about writing rather than drawing! I'll be sure to draw some of you folks some time in the next three weeks while I'm here.

Veritas

Kind of thrown together in the end. PS crashed on me so I had to salvage what I could from a screenshot.

EntrY

Haha, I like the innocent expression and the fact that it's got a chain saw - that would be the proper upgrade for a beaver.

EDIT: I just had to draw ze beaver as well - couldn't resist!



And his crazy amputated cousin is attempting to chop him to death!