Nico Marlet Crocodile

[michel.g]

Hi all,

Amazing sculptures on this forum !
I have my fun by doing animated or stylized characters, I hope you will like it :)
the design is from Nicolas Marlet, you can find it in the art of kung fu panda

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TURN AROUND

[mayuresh-salunke]

Hello,

This is very good ,i really liked the render aswell as the textures,maybe you could have textured the rock, just my opinion.but its looking very good.

-Mayuresh

[rasmusW]

hahahahahahah!

awesome work, michel.
i loved the characters in kung fu panda more than the film.
looks like you did a great job, translating from 2d to 3d.

-r

[Blades]

Great work! love the style

[michel.g]

thanks all :)

Maruyesh: I will give it a try, my first idea was just to show it on white background and white stand to just focus on the character, but I get loose because the sword had some pure white reflections on some angles and was disapearing on the white bg, then I tried with a subtil gradiant on the bg but I had some banding problem after the compression ... blabla bla ... I did some update on the images to get a more light bg . I will update soon the turn around also, and the pictures for the roc textures.

[collings]

really cool character design, nice model and render man :)
i'll just have a comment, the scale under his head looks too much like a wireframe to me, i actually thought at first that it was a composite of the wireframe on top of the model.

[nielot007]

hehe really funny character ;)

love it !!

cheers

[PascalR]

funny character indeed and I dig the lighting here. Would be nice to get more info about your workflow :)

:sw:plugged:sw:

[sschoellhammer]

Awesome. So mad, and so happy. :love:

[michel.g]

collings: I understand the confusion with the grid pattern but I choose to follow the original design, I should perhaps work more on the integration of these lignes :)

Pascal: thanks a lot :)
I did the model in maya using classical polygon modeling and the sculpt polygon tool (I'm a old school modeler, it' faster for me :) ). I used an autorig to pose it with quick skinning and object warped on simple geometry.Then I did the details and maps in mudbox. For the rendering I used mental ray with one main light ( spot with raytrace shadows ) one fill light ( directionnal without shadows ) and final gathering ( I put a sphere in the scene with a procedural map to get the ambiant lighting and the reflections).I used a lot of procedural texture also (armor, tongue..). It took 7mn by frame (2k) on a mac book pro. I'll post some wireframe when I'll come back from my holidays :)

[BrettSinclair]

Ha! Good job on this. I thought of kung fu panda right away.

[arthurduque]

ahaha!! cool character very great cartoon!! great lights for the turn!!
great

[majid_smiley]

very cool work !