Mystie Makes Models

[Mystie]

(Hooray for alliteratives!)

Anyway, here is where I will be posting my own custom-made models.

For my first attempt at modelling, I made Starlow from the Mario & Luigi games. The reason I chose Starlow to start off with is because she has extremely simple anatomy.

Here are some preview pictures:








And here's the model itself if you want to give me any constructive criticism or suggestions before I submit her: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yjlqqcsejwzedl...w.zip?dl=0

(Oh, and, an interesting little tidbit: I used the actual color palettes from Bowser's Inside Story on her body, feet, and star.)

[recme]

well for starters, the eyes could be a bit smaller and thin. the star above her head can also be bigger as well. for a first time person modeling, this isnt half bad!

[Mystie]

Thanks!

The link has now been updated to an improved version, with a slightly bigger star and slightly smaller and thinner eyes. Tell me how it looks now.

[Mystie]

Updated yet again, using lots of constructive criticism the folks in the IRC chat lended me.

Here's a render of the current version:




I think it looks perfect now, but before I go about submitting it, tell me if there's anything else that needs to be modified.

[Ton]

Her feet are closer to Mario boot with soles and detail. You can probably borrow them from an existing model.

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110...tarlow.jpg

[Mystie]

I think I may just flatten the bottoms of her feet just a tiny bit. Not make them half-circles like last time though.

[Mystie]

And now, thanks to the help of all of your constructive criticism and advice, Starlow is finally complete!

Starlow

So who or what am I going to model next, you may ask? Well, you'll see soon enough...

[Lilothestitch]

Who are you going to model next?

[Mystie]

Status update.

The next two models probably won't be coming until mid to late November. Due to my best friend coming back to visit on Sunday, a certain game coming out in two days, me and my friend going on vacation next week, and me having to get a lot of college assignments done ahead of time, I haven't had any time to work on modeling, and the only things I have gotten done are eye textures, and colors for various body parts.


But anyway, for those wondering who or what these two models are, here's a hint for one of them:

[Mystie]

Wonder Pink is that character who you see above. I was going to begin making models of the Wonderful 101 characters, putting them in my artstyle rather than the game's, but I need to use the textures from the game itself as reference. So far, the only TW101 textures we can use are the ones included with the SSB4 trophies, but I need textures of the characters in their regular forms before I can begin, since I will be modelling their regular and superhero forms.

Anyway, I started on a model of Mabel from Gravity Falls today, and here's what I got so far:




Unfortunately, I can't get the pictures and the meshes properly aligned, and also, I am having problems trying to get the sweater to look right, and to turn the skirt mesh from a cube shape into a cylindrical shape.

[Kyalie]

You're definitely lacking vertical cuts as well: seen from the top your main shape probably looks like a diamond, since you got only four sides. Never used this program, but from what i kind see, you can probably use loop cut and slide to subdivide this part as well. To get a smooth shape, you need to have as many vertical lines as horizontal ones, so that your polygons look like squares instead of rectangles.
I hope it helps and i'm not saying too many things that might sound obvious to you

[Mystie]

It's okay, I started to notice that anyway. I've been splicing the mesh more, both horizontally and vertically, to get her sweater to look right, but I still feel I'm not quite "there" yet.

On a positive note, however, I have made the eyes and legs, and I think they look pretty good. I'm even making the pupils be round-ish meshes, rather than a texture, because on the show, whenever a character is seen from a side angle, their pupil looks as if it's coming out of their eye, or resting on top of the eyeball. To emulate this, I chopped a cube into a round shape for the eyeball, chopped another cube into another round shape for the pupil, then placed the smaller shape in the middle of the larger shape.

I will post another picture when I make more progress.

[Struggleton!]

Great job, love what I'm seeing