Comments on: Chipmonk Model

By: niki

niki — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

man~that’s funny

By: Will da Idahoan

Will da Idahoan — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Wow. Are the backgrounds going to be done in a similar style?

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Doug, if that’s a Maya model (and even if it isn’t), your hair needs to have some sort of growth map to tell it where to put the shorter hair (like right next to the mouth) and where to put the longer hair (like on elbows, shoulders, middle of back, etc). I’m not sure what look you are after, but I just thought I’d mention that.

Also, the lighting may be due to the shadow map size on the lights. If the CG guys are using Shave for the hair, you need to use a pretty focused spot light to get the lighting to work right. Also, there is a setting to mix between ambient or actual scene lighting. It looks like some of the hair lighting issues in this early test could be due to some of that.

It’s looking pretty good… keep going!

By: Doug TenNapel

Doug TenNapel — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the good advice, I’ll pass that along to the team. I never know when something is submitted as final-final or when they’re just presenting work in progress where they know they still have some fine tuning to do.

By: Doug TenNapel

Doug TenNapel — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know if it’s the same style, but we’re going for a rich children’s book feel.

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

That chimpmunk is gonna replace the whale in my nightmates. Awesome.

By: Stephen Levinson

Stephen Levinson — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Doug man, i love the 3d guy! I esp. love the crooked teeth and tongue. Lookin good man, keep it up! -Steve

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

That’s one scary chipmunk. Perhaps he’s had one espresso-flavored acorn too many?

By: tom smo!

tom smo! — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

hey doug! this is great! i’m kinda behind on tennapel news and don’t know much about the solomon fix new characters, but i think this design holds true to your style. 3d has spawned a lot of awkward characters, and its nice to see one that’s balanced well, even if it looks totally possesed [donkey?]! i sit next to an ex disney guy at work right now, and he told us all about the work heirarchy. and you’re totally right about the clean up guys! the people who do cleanups do all the difficult drawing stuff, everone under them keeps it pretty rough to get motion down. figuring out how to translate that cleanup into 3d is totally important! keep crankin out the awesome man!

By: trogdor

trogdor — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Oh thanks for the nightmares

Seriously tho, props to the 3d guys, he looks like he’s going to dash forward and eat my soul!