Making Cartoon characters

[solo]

Ely, check your Pm for model.

Coen & reymond, I will get to a tut later (attempt another video one)

Had a few other things to finish this morning so here is a fast darkwing duck, still needs detailing.

[solo]

Okay here is a fast tutorial, I believe this will help folk understand my process better.

In the .skp provided below are two components/models, one is the basic head shape and the other is a basic ear shape, both are rather simple.

Use these two shapes to understand how Sub-smooth works, now! Explode and group each model/component seperately. Click on on group and then on the subsmooth icon (and select 2 Iterations. Once both are smoothed, resize and position ear (make a copy of the one you smoothed for other side) and rhen using shapes (sphere) create eyes and nose.

It should look like this when completed.:

[boofredlay]

Beautifully simple. Thanks Pete.

[madllama]

Hey Solo!

Love your work! Really nice looking.
If you have some time over, maybe you can try doing Gizmoduck?

Keep up the good work!

//madllama

[David_H]

As long as we are all making requests. . . .

Asterix_Obelix_e_Ideafix_2-400x413.jpg

. . .

Maybe I will give old Obelix a try myself. He's nice and round.

[BubbaLove]

Hahaha.... Darkwing Duck looks fantastic! Is it possible to get that model from you Pete? I have someone here at work who will go crazy when he sees this! Awesome work dude!

[madllama]

jenjacob, I have done Asterix and Obelix, infact I did the entire Gaul village, the Roman outpost and a few legionares (Max, z-brush, SU). However I cannot even display them as it was done on contract and I waived my rights to them on sale (would not wanna p*ss my client off as they give me lots of work)

David, answer to you. Solo wrote this earlier in the thread.

Keep up the awesome work Solo!

//madllama

[Jon]

Incredible, Pete

How about good ol' Pepe le Pew?

[Marian]

How about good ol' Tom and Jerry?
http://www.tomandjerryonline.com/modelsheets.cfm

[David_H]

well I guess I am just late to the game. . .again.

[lapx]

BUGS BUNNY, THATS ALL FOLKS

[David_H]

well I guess I am just late to the game. . .again.

<<<<<< You could do Peabody and his Pet Boy Sherman . .. .

BTW that's gonna be the name of my rock band someday . ."Pet Boy Shermans"

[solo]

Yikes, thats a lot of requests, I am gonna need more play time to address them all.

Lapx, I have done Bugs Bunny, on 2nd page I believe.

[trialskid]

Wow solo these are amazing!!! i want to get subdivide and smooth really bad. Im going to have to convince my dad to buy it for me.

[madllama]

Take your time Solo,
we are all enjoying every moment of your crazy good looking toons

[watkins]

Dear Pete,

How about a gargoyle or the Green Man for those who like to model historic buildings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle

Regards,
Bob

[Gaieus]

To support Bob's post (I didn't want to edit it)

[lapx]

I did say bugs bunny I mean't Tony the tiger, GRRRRRRRate!!!

[KustuRA]

Okay . .. Solo is just too good.

We're going to have to kill him.

LoL...

Solo, the king!

[Frank0503]

Solo, one step important in using subdivide & smooth is create the model bigger than usual or create many edges for the model? Could you don't mind to upload more detail tutorial from here? I really want to get the complicated model skill for my self

[gaucho]

awsome stuff Pete!

[Mr S]

Hi Pete,

Fantastic quality.
But it's scary how quick you can produce these!

Please my see my request attached.

Regards
Mr S

Yosemite Sam.gif

[FenS]

Hi Solo,

i'm wondering, how many pictures do you use to create them?
I mean, i just see one picture in the request, do you go and look for a lot of pictures of the same cartoon from different points of view or do you just use one?

[solo]

Thanks again guys.

Mr S, it's been a long time since I made a character, one gets rusty when one does not practice.
However I should get a moment later to give it a go (putting myself on the spot here)

fenS, well that depends on the character, I would normally search the net for at least two, a front and a side view, it does not have to be the same image from two views but rather images that I can use to model correctly.

[solo]

I'm always up for a challenge, here you go, took 3 hours plus some change. A little heavy on the poly's due to the SDS meshing but overal I am satisfied.

Line and SU output, I may render it later

[cheffey]

There you go walking on water again! Amazing work and in an incredibly short timeframe. It would take me 3 hours to model the handgun.

[solo]

Thanks cheffey, most of it is symetrically repeated components.
This is cool, I altered some cel textures to make them cartoonish, I think it works great.

[solo]

[Mr S]

Hi Pete,

What can I say?
I made this request last night (Yosemite Sam) just before I finished work.
I come in this morning to find my request completed.

FANTASTIC!

It only took you 3 hours?
I'd spend 3 hours just thinking about how to try and do this.

I'm realy curious as to how you "fleshed out" a full 3D model from the simple 2D image I supplied. That was just a front view of the subject. Did you source side-on and back views? Or do you just rely on your own gut feeling as to the overall dimensions of the character. Based on your memory, perhaps, of watching the cartoon?

Also...

This is cool, I altered some cel textures to make them cartoonish, I think it works great.

Are these "cel textures" something you use in Vue?
Or did you render using something else?

Anyway, let me just say again how impressive your work is.
You set in an incredibly high bench mark for us to aim for.
A great inspiration!

Regards
Mr S

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[David_H]

Hear! Hear! Pete. AN Incredibly High Standard for us to achieve!

STOP IT!!!!!