Smeagol WIP

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:28 am

Here's a character I've been working on. I think he's missing something but I can't put my finger on it. What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-erRoqi0qj8

SvenFoster · Post by **SvenFoster** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:47 am

nipples?

jezjones29 · Post by **jezjones29** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:43 am

I would turn is hands, and make him more fluid - i.e. unlock his head & shoulders a little - he's too robotic.

SvenFoster · Post by **SvenFoster** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:42 am

oh ok we're talking about the animation too..

in that case, I agree.. turn the hands, move the loincloth a little and loosen the shoulder.

cool

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:29 pm

no I wasn't talking about the animation, I meant the character himself. I didn't want to have him static. Nipples?

I suppose so.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:26 pm

His feet should be bigger and longer, the head is too big for my taste and the neck should be longer as well, also, I would add longer stands of hair falling at least to the shoulders.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:33 pm

Thx Gilles, I think you're right about the head. Reducing it will make the neck look longer. I thought the feet were too big. I'll try going bigger with them and add some longer hair strand too.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:27 pm

Updated version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AngVdaoqNk

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:30 pm

Much better, don't forget that Smeagol used to be a river Hobbit, and that they tend to have large feet!

Heu, is it just me, or did I just sounded very nerdy!

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:37 pm

GCharb wrote:Much better, don't forget that Smeagol used to be a river Hobbit, and that they tend to have large feet!

Heu, is it just me, or did I just sounded very nerdy!

That makes two of us cause that's why I made the feet flatter than my hobbit character.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:50 pm

One last suggestion, I would make his, heu, pants, cant remember the right name, longer and I would put a dynamic bone in there, to add secondary animation.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:55 pm

I tried that, didn't like how it looked. I did a little point animation on it instead. I'll work on it some more. Thanks for the suggestions.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:02 pm

I think yours was too short to do good with dynamic bone, maybe if a bit longer like I shown in the picture!

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Dynamic bones could be used for the hair strains as well.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:09 pm

I do have bone dynamics on the hair but the settings are low ( I didn't want the hair flying around too much) I'll try the loinclothe a little longer and bone dynamics again.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:10 pm

jonbo wrote:I do have bone dynamics on the hair but the settings are low ( I didn't want the hair flying around too much) I'll try the loinclothe a little longer and bone dynamics again.

What I do to make things smoother with bone dynamic is that I start with a high dampening setting at the top of the chain then I lower it by double as I go down.

This way you get nice overlapping on the bone dynamics, makes it more natural to me.

A file I just made to illustrate what I mean!

http://www.mediafire.com/?7b4whh82ogj3j4z