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Artwork => Finished Works and Works in Progress => Topic started by: Raxx on May 29, 2014, 03:03:07 am

Title: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on May 29, 2014, 03:03:07 am
Alright, figured I'd start exercising my creative muscles, they've been sitting in the muck for a little too long. This topic is for my art that doesn't really qualify as a "project" by itself, but rather more for exercise and practice. Or other random stuff.

First up, a dinosaur/monster/toy thing that I've had sitting around the back of the brain for a while. I made a rough sketch, created a vector version, and then modeled and textured it. I wanted to go for that "painted" texture look, and I think I got kind of close. Low poly, no real target triangle count at 934 triangles, just wanted something that was easy to make that still loaded easily in the web browser ;)








Screenshot attached for those who might have trouble viewing it...
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Steve on May 29, 2014, 03:31:49 am
Cool, Ray.  It plays on my Nexus 7 tablet OK.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: kreator on May 29, 2014, 03:59:29 am
and mine!
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Steve on May 29, 2014, 12:24:52 pm
However once I start it I can't do anything with the rest of the screen. :-(
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on May 29, 2014, 12:36:49 pm
I tried it with my Google Nexus phone, works a little slow but still fun especially when full screen.

You have to tap onto a part of the web page in order to get out of the viewer's focus, then you can do whatever with the rest of the website. Tap back in to interact with it again.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Anthony44 on May 30, 2014, 01:07:16 am
Nice work Raxx (what app are you using for your 3d display ?)
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on May 31, 2014, 04:14:18 am
Anthony44, thanks, I'm using the Anim8or 3D Viewer (http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php/topic,4852.0.html) that I implemented into the forum software. The viewer uses Three.js and a custom .an8 file loader, along with a basic Three.js scene implementation.

CrashDrive, glad you like it :)



Well, what's next is a generic kitty that I designed and started modeling a while back. Finished it up, the result is below. Granted, the texturing is pretty awful, but I'm movin' along ;) 610 triangles by itself, it was for a mobile game concept that never got past the planning phase. The eyes and mouth can be texture animated individually.






Next will be something a bit higher res...
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on July 01, 2014, 12:11:45 am
Here's something I made for a mobile game that is now on developmental hiatus:

Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: neirao on July 03, 2014, 05:23:57 pm
Nice and beautifull characters! What Tool you are using for texture UV?
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on July 03, 2014, 10:19:42 pm
Thanks neirao, I used 3D-Coat to unwrap it and touch up the textures, and Paint Tool SAI to paint the textures.

I'm currently familiarizing myself with sculpting in 3D-Coat, which is an awesome voxel sculpting program along the lines of ZBrush. I still use Anim8or for polygonal modeling and touch-ups.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: neirao on July 04, 2014, 12:17:33 pm
Thanks!
Time ago i use "CINEMA 4D/BODY PAINT" only for maker the UV,
but now im using WINGS 3D for UV... is very easy! :)
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: davygravy123 on July 04, 2014, 03:14:07 pm
Nice, really like your models :D
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on October 12, 2014, 03:31:08 am
Belated thanks for the kind comments ;)

I haven't done any digital art in a long time, but I'm currently on the last 18 hours of a game jam and had the opportunity to do some actual animation in Anim8or. Here's a basic render of the star of the game, I'm calling him Fiz. I'll post more later.

Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: ENSONIQ5 on October 12, 2014, 04:06:36 am
You have a real talent for injecting life and personality into your characters Raxx.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: RudySchneider on October 12, 2014, 04:46:06 pm
The name definitely fits, raxx!  Very cool!
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on October 12, 2014, 08:30:32 pm
Thanks guys! The render was something I came up with while looking for ideas to for a speed-up power-up icon. The green color is what I turn transparent in the image sequences that I work on. This one seemed cool so I posted it up...I hadn't done animation in Anim8or in years so it was a special occasion ;)

The 49-hour game jam finished, and we actually had something working this time around. My team was 3 programmers with me as the sole artist, and the theme was "Microcosm". The idea we came up with was to make a shoot 'em up inside a fish tank.


Here's the final build we submitted, if you want to give it a shot: http://wub-wub.com/Fiz_Game.7z Might be a bit heavy for some computers, and obviously plenty of bugs and incomplete features due to the time restrictions.


I created all the art in the game, and as mentioned before, the main fish that the player controls was animated and rendered in Anim8or before being made into spritesheets. The rest of the art was made from scratch using Inkscape, Anime Studio Pro, and Photoshop.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: neirao on October 13, 2014, 04:26:14 pm
Nice Game/Work!! The game is Funny   :)
the only problem for me..is the control, i(never) no so good using ASWD KEYS for control
characters in games, i always like more DIRETIONALS(ARROW) KEYS of keyboard.
(http://xoax.net/cpp/crs/win32/lessons/Lesson10/Image1.png)
for me is more easy ...but i think then the problems is me hehehe ;D
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: ronaldefarmer on October 13, 2014, 05:04:35 pm
Cool Game Raxx!
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: cooldude234 on October 13, 2014, 07:40:03 pm
Why'd you make the resolution so small? It's like less than a quarter of my screen size lol. Also why didn't you have AA enabled? These don't seem like very trivial things considering you are using unity.
However I won't complain too much ;)
Although I really like the art style I found it kinda hard to control my fish as when you are looking at your target your fish looks much like the others and I kept confusing it for them.
All in all it's a simple but very effective game.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on October 13, 2014, 09:53:40 pm
Thanks CrashDrive and ronaldefarmer :)

cooldude234, I had no part in the programming or Unity. This was a last minute build they uploaded, I think they didn't have time (or just plain forgot) to enable options. It's a fully 2D game btw, the jaggies are probably the result of it not playing at native resolution, or some other improper configuration. It should be playing fullscreen for you though.

neirao, if I ever get the source files, I'll see if I can do something about that, among other things ;)


I thought I'd go ahead and upload the Fiz .an8 file, in case you guys wanted to learn from it or whatever. I designed Fiz in Inkscape, intending it to be animated in 2D in Anime Studio Pro, like all the other sprites, but wanted his movement represented more realistically along the Z-axis (if X and Y were the 2D plane--my concern was the fins). So I modeled it in Anim8or and started the rigging and animation in Blender, but got tired of it so I stuck with Anim8or all the way 8)
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: ianross on October 14, 2014, 04:35:09 am
Thank you for sharing this, Wow! this is great.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Arik_the_Red on October 24, 2014, 02:29:48 pm
The fishes are great! They remind me of fishes I was making for the deep sea diver I had made way back. Sadly, I've lost all my anim8or stuff over the last 2 years. I think it was all on a USB stick that vanished a couple months ago... :-(  So many unfinished things, heheheh...
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Raxx on April 08, 2016, 07:26:08 am
Random ugly bird modeled off an old creature design. Was going to make a tutorial out of it but then I got really lazy at the wings and went meh.

Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: captaindrewi on April 08, 2016, 10:27:35 am
All so neat.i missed the fish previously so amazed by that and the approach to your 2d/3d solution.
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: Hypure on April 10, 2016, 12:53:23 pm
The 3d effect on Fiz is very slick  8)
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: neirao on April 10, 2016, 07:25:23 pm
wow!
Title: Re: Doodling
Post by: daniel99 on August 07, 2016, 08:26:22 am
I like the bird! Kinda reminds me of a pterodactyl :D