DarkLimit

Hi guys, I have been spending TONS of time working on Swazi's Rig... I am almost finish I just have to create poses for his eyebrows.. thought I would share it with you.. I also have some test animations I will post over the next few days.. Thanks ever so much to PARLO and LARRY_B for your unlimited help with this rig more to come..

carterhawk001 - I like this!! very cool character... You caught my attention when you revealed he had another face I did not see that coming very nice; his design is very creative it's nice to see out of the ordinary stuff..... keep up the good work.

Vern Good job! I really like the texturing......

littleandy - since am going for a cartoon style the texturing will be nothing close to the old fishes, am going to keep things VERY simple.. My focus is on the animation and story.. thanks for the feedback.

Obnomauk - great job u guys have done here, very funny characters.. Good luck on the project.

I have finish texturing the DR...... all the characters are pretty much done now... Am just gonna tweak their rigs and start doing some test animations / Environment designs soon.....

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modernhorse - thanks alot man, Am hoping to still capture the mood and style I want even if my characters are cartoon..... So far they are coming along good.. I will add more texture details as I go along.......

LMAO this is such a funny character..... I was laughing so hard when I saw it... Am looking forward to more; keep up the good work.....

Zack - this is Lev Vy's girlfriend and they are the same type of fish so I wanted to show that.... here is an update..... she is complete.....

Heiner- This happends when you use 5 point patches but there some areas where you did not use 5 point patches and it's still not smooth... What happened is that you broke the natural flow of the splines, try re-connecting them again. Sometimes splines get connected incorrectly.. This happened to me alot when I am modeling my fishes...... hope it helps...

zacktaich - Thanks I will see if I can use the old Lev Vy ....... littleandy - Thanks for your feedback, yeah it's bigger than I thought it would be... but my new designs makes it faster and easier to move the project along.. I am really loving this.... here is a concept girl fish am working on...... more to come....

Hi guys, After working on my project for a while I realized that the characters I created would NOT give me the freedom I need to express the story I wanted to tell.... I needed a simpler more different approach... the more you learn the more you realize what works and what does not... So I re-designed the look and feel of my entire short, I decided to go after a simple design and a more cartoon appearence. This will allow me alot more freedom which I need to tell my story... I will keep my old fishes for maybe later use in some other project... The characters will be as followed: Lev Vy, Bliv Vy-(Lev Vy's Godmother), Swazi- (LEv Vy's friend), and the doctor.... right now I only have Swazi modeled.. I will have more soon.

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Ken - thanks for the feedback, I was considering a huge fin on his back when I was designing him, But I wanted more of a worm like creature so I stuck to this design... Who knows I may end up adding one..

Zaryin - thank you, I will have her textured soon. I have gotten around to texturing my Ghost Doctor, he was a tough one cuz of his shape, in future I will model a character in a more neutral position so texturing is easier ... This is the look am after am happy that I got it..... Bump / Displacement maps were provided by Johnartbox, I wanted to try out the new Zbrush2 methods; I believed it would give me the effect I needed and it did. Thanks john. **more updates to come**

John this looks great so far, the water is amazing...... I look forward to more updates..

Wireframe......... she's now 720 patches.. still under the 1000 mark so this makes me happy

I have finished modeling Lady Blivvy... Am very happy with her never thought I could have modeled her the way I saw her in my head, but it worked out great.. I will start texturing her soon...

Here is a wireframe.........

Hi guys I started mdoeling my female fish, she's mermaid like but I added my own design to her... This is what I have so far.. still got lots of tweaking to do.. but this is the concept I have in mind... ** she will appear to Lev Vy at the end of the movie and speak to him** so far she's 488 patches am trying to keep them as low as possible.

shaunf sir awsome work as always; the level of quality in your work is amazing. Very nice use of colors and great modeling.. Question do you think he needs just a little bit of specularity? these creatures from what I know has a bit of a wet appearence correct me if am wrong..

Andy this guy looks great so far..... I look forward to more updates... Have a look at the "Orc" Joe Cosman modeled maybe it will help you along the way.. I hope it's ok to post his pic here.

This looks dead on so far, awsome model.. what character is he? from a comic?

This is an awsome character, very nicely built. I just think the shell part of his tummy can have a few details on it.. Keep up the great work!!!!