A cartoony dinosaur

[Storm]

I should really try to get my fishdude finished, but I started working on this fella here yesterday, and I think I am gonna try to finish him properly, because I really need to start learning how to do scales and stuff. Still wokring on my aquadude though ;)

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I hope you guys like him, and CC is very welcome!

[PascalR]

Haha he looks great! man you're fast, I'd love to see your workflow on those ZB sketeches:beerchug:
But yeah please finish your sea creature so I can plug it on the front page ;)

[Emanuel Da Silva Luz]

very nice style very original style u got man i envy that hehe :)
and yah like pascal said god damn ur fast..just tell us the truth ..u cloned urself and u got ur clone chained up 24-7 in front of the pc tablet :P
keep it up im lovin it

[Manuel Poehlau]

I really like your style, nice and clean shapes with strong silouettes.
Do you do your designs straight in 3d or on paper first?
Keep posting more of those cool creatures :dance:

[Ken]

Really nice design, storm! I love your work style/design! very fast and simple!
Are you always drawing some concept image or something before start to sculpting?

[fantasymaster]

This is some cool stuff!

Same quality as the sea creature. I agree with PascalR, you have to finish it first, it turns realy nice.

Cheers

[Storm]

@Pascal
Well know I've got to finish my aquadude :beerchug:
And thanks, really glad you like him ;)
I'll look into making something that show my process, can't promise when though ;)

@Emanuel
Gee.. thanks man, I'm really glad to hear that :D
Yeah you got me, I've got 3 gnomes on unicorns jumping around on my tablet all day, while I sit back and relax ;)

@Manuel
Thank you, glad you like them.
And yep I usually start on paper, I'll upload some of my sketches later, I usually don't spend to much time on the 2D part if I know I'm gonna make a 3D model, so they tend to be just the lines.

@Ken
Thank you Ken, really glad you like them ;)
Like I said i usually do a sketch on paper first, though sometimes I just go straight to zbrush.

@fantasymaster
Thanks man, glad you like them, I'll get working on finishing my fishdude.

Thanks for the comments guys, really appreciate it!

[Storm]

A few of the concepts for some of my sculpts
The dinosaur
http://www.frederikstorm.dk/images/tegningervol2/moresketches/dinoandpig.jpg

The frog
http://www.frederikstorm.dk/images/tegningervol2/moresketches/frog01.jpg

The goth dragon
http://www.frederikstorm.dk/images/tegningervol2/moresketches/dragon.jpg

And my Aquadude
http://www.frederikstorm.dk/images/tegningervol2/undervandsdude.jpg

[PascalR]

Great sketches Storm:bouncy: I took the liberty to edit your post so the images are showing up within the message. Hope you don't mind.
I really like your first sketch for the dino, well done :thumbsup:

[Storm]

Not at all, glad you like them ;)

[Silva Spoon]

Love it! I think it has more personality than that T-Rex in Disneys Meet the Robinsons. Youve got quite the knack for these cartoony characters. I really enjoy seeing them come to life.

[pitiwazou]

Very good, I really like your style, good job ;)

[Storm]

@Silva Spoon
Thanks man! Really appreciate it :D

@pitiwazou
Thank you, glad you like it ;)

[leslie.button]

You've got a great style man, and this certainly shows it. Keep em coming! :)

[weiluntsai]

another great character !! love it:dance:

[Storm]

@leslie.button
Thanks man, really glad you like it :D

@weiluntsai
Thank you, glad to hear you like this one as well ;)

[pointpusher]

Wonderful design. Really freaking cool.

[Storm]

Thanks a bunch Danny, I'm really glad to hear you like it.
I wish I had the time to finish some of my unfinished pieces.

[johnseventine]

Good start i really can't wait to see it finished clap

[Infinite]

Super style, very cute and great 3D interpretation.

[Storm]

@johnseventine
Thank you John, really appreciate it, I hope I get to finish him once I'm done with my exams (and my fishdude, I have not forgotten about him Pascal :D)

@Infinite
Thanks Lee! That really great to hear, as I've been working on getting the feel from my drawings transfered better to my 3D models.

[bneall]

excellent! Translates to 3d very nicely.

[Storm]

Thank you Ben, great to hear :D

[giocaramello]

amazing work, loved the style!

[Storm]

Thank you Giovani, really good to hear ;)

[exblow]

wow awesome work!
if you are looking for someone to animate it...i'm here! long time i didn't animate cartoony stuff

http://vimeo.com/10942052

got an eye on your work now!

[Storm]

Thanks a bunch thomas, that is so awesome to hear :D
I've send you a PM ;)
And awesome reel :thumbsup:

[handlebar]

Fantastic style, it has an original feel to the model, full of character.

[PascalR]

:sw:plugged:sw:

[Storm]

@handlebar
Thanks Steven, really awesome to hear :D

@PascalR
Thank you so much Pascal! Can't wait to get back and finish this one :D

[Storm]

Hey guys, I actually never thought this would happen, but I finally got back to this one, thanks to Thomas ;)
I got this fella a brand new topology, and I guess I learned something new, I started out as a blender user back in the days, and I decided to go back and try out the retopo feature, and I think it speeded up my re-topology process with 400% or something like that, so definitely recommend that as a free re-topology tool.
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Anyway, I know that besides that not much have happende yet, but I would really like to take this one futher, and I was thinking that some skin like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinorower/1041879797/
Would be great.
My only problem is that I don't really have much of a clue about how to get started on it, I've never really gotten into skin-details like this before, so any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[collings]

for the skin details process, there are different way you can do it.

like for instance, painting in photoshop a few alphas with that kind of patterns and then start to laying down them in Zbrush ( Kind of the sculpting approch) . OR painting your color map in photshop and then from your color map you create a bump/dispalcement map. ( All in texture no sculpting)

etc...

[Storm]

Thanks collings, I was thinking alphas was the way to go, but didn't know if there was some "magic" trick that I didn't know about , I guess I better get down to it then ;)

[exblow]

awesome man, can't wait to make him move!

[Storm]

Hey thomas its actually really close to being ready for you to play with, as the final details will be for the displacements.
Before I send it to Thomas, I was wondering if any of you would have some suggestions on how to improve my UV layout, I'm no great UVmaster, so any suggestions would be much appreciated ;)
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And I need to move the mesh around abut around the eye, the projection messes it up a tiny bit.