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If you say so, but I do feel a need to tell you that the face is done so strange on your model, and it bugs me a lot, and fixing it would be more than worth it.

May I ask how you did the smoke trail on your shooting star?

I don't find it bashing. It's just that this wasn't that kind of project. I only spent about 20 minutes putting it together. And that is what it is. Rather then improving, your advice seemed more hinting toward making it something more. But I don't really want to spend more then 20 minutes on this kind of thing. Know? It's just a little thing I did for fun, and wanted to share. And constructive commentary on a project like this, to me, felt more like wishful thinking of yours as to how you wish it could have been. And for me, I can just tell you, that that is not what it was supposed to be. The picture is what it is, I wouldn't have it any other way, because that is the way I pictured it before I made it.

I am not offended, or trying to offend, just making things clear.

http://saijeehiguchi.deviantart.com/#/d3au4l6
An image based off of stage three of Bullet Life, this one is made for Desktop Back Ground purposes. Yea it's anim8or alright.

It might not be relevant to the topic, but Everything besides the modeling of Zoey was done in four days, I had been making the Zoey model in my spare time over months, really just to get the hang of high poly character modeling, because before I am an Animator, I am first a game designer, and tend to have my characters drawn with quite low detail for the games. The first three days of work were making the robot, rigging Zoey and the robot, and all the animations, and the fourth day was creating the sound effects and syncing them with the animation.

There is a story to Bullet Life by the way, it's just something I don't find any reason to release yet, simply because I'm not popular enough yet.

Did you play the game by the way? It's free and it's arcade style so it's beatable in a short time (21 minutes to be exact). In the next BL game I will find a way to incorporate some of the things that were in this animation that were not in the game, particularly the stylish dodging at 0:33.

Anyway, I agree with you, I like animation for that you can explore the world that is impossible. One person once tolled me "It's a little odd that she is flying." My response was "Isn't that normal?" And besides it's so much easier to make an animation of something impossible as flying then something as possible as running, because when making an impossible animation, it really doesn't have to look "right" as long as it doesn't look "poorly done."

Are you referring to the furry-ness scale that you can find on google image search "furry"?

I'm flattered, but this is about you not me. There are a number of things to do to understand anatomy better. The best advice I could give you there would be to pay attention to examples, real life or not, and take good exercises with them when modeling.

When I was learning to make body proportions: I did a series of exercises of low-poly characters (give or take 1000 tris). Characters this low detail are easy to produce, and thus are great for exercise.

I actually learned faces first, since I figured it was the most detailed part. Again I got good at this just from a ton of low-poly exercise.

As Janro has stated, reference images can help a ton. And anything can be a reference image, it doesn't have to be your own sketch, it can be one from another, or even something as simple as an image found on google.

On a side note, to answer your post on youtube: I model like Japanese comics because it is just easier and funner for me then realistic. It's easier because there can be a lot more tolerances for when it looks "right" then when trying to do it realistically. And the way I did the eyes was just using normal bones and weight painting.

Four bones:
Inner eye: used for making blinking look right
Front eye: Can be used to make eyes angle down to make look angry
Top Eye: also used in blinking, can make character look tired.
Outer eye: used to slant eyes, good for making character look sad or surprised.

btw my face figure looks like this

I remember you, you're one of my subscribers on my personal youtube account (Saijee Higuchi). I can tell that you put effort into it, but your concept of proportion is lacking.

Now no offense, but in all honesty, I thought that character was a man at first.

Your character's build looks like a domino. Thick from side to side, and solid flatness from front to back. She also has no curves what-so-ever. Her legs should be more spread out. Her arms should be give-or-take a hand longer. From front to back she is way to flattened out, it almost looks like she was put into a compressor and squashed.

You might want to check out Mark Crilley

Next off was that face, Nothing about it really strikes me as feminine. The nose bridge is a perfect Parallel line all the way. The nose could also come out a bit more. The eyes look the same shape throughout, no start or end. The mouth also seems a bit long, Also you seem to lack the side of the jaw bone. Making it appear that the chin makes a perfect "V" shape to the cheek bones.