cfree68f Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Ok.. I'd been playing with this idea for quiet sometime. Don't know if you guys know who Edward fudwupper is.. but its one of my favorite kids books from one of my favorite illustrators. I'd allways thought my son Cooper looked a little like Edward.. and I had to give it a shot. The how to; I use photoshop Liquify.. ALL THE TIME... for all sorts of things. From time to time.. I use it like the old morph tools to make funny faces. I took this photo... http://www.colins-loft.net/free/Coopsand.jpg and manipulated it to this in Photoshop.. http://www.colins-loft.net/free/ComicCoop.jpg As I did this.. it struck me that the same thing could be done with Magnet Mode in AM. And since I allready have a model of Coop... well you get the picture. Not sure what I'll do with it from here, but I thought I'd share with you guys. C Quote
NancyGormezano Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 fantastic !- looks like a terrific start to a new character Quote
Mr. Jaqe Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Cool, I never understand how people can make so darn many things in Photoshop, all I can make are colors and fancy patterns. I would love to see your son in the role of this book character you speak of, I always enjoy looking at your work. Looking forward to see how this goes along. Quote
cfree68f Posted April 3, 2005 Author Posted April 3, 2005 and heres 45 minutes of tweeking on the original Coop head using Magnet mode and mesh warp. Fun, fun, fun. C Quote
Mr. Jaqe Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Whoawi! Will this guy appear in a story? (I hope so! I hope so! I hope so!) I would really like to see atleast a short animation of this guy when/if you're done with the body. Btw, you must be unbeliveable good with that magnet tool, because...well, the image speaks for itself Quote
msfolly Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Is your son still speaking to you? Really, great idea. May have to try that! Quote
cfree68f Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 Is your son still speaking to you? Yep.. at first he thought it was weird.. but after a while he thought it was pretty funny. Whoawi! Will this guy appear in a story? Actually I just did it for a break and an idea. But I like it so much.. I might keep going after I finish the other stuff on my plate. I'll have to try it with my daughter and make a short out of them. Perhaps a "tom and Jerry" style bit. Or maybe "Wyle E Coyote and the Roadrunner" My kids are allways chasing each other around the house. Hmmmm. Makes me wish I had nothing else to do. C Quote
Mr. Jaqe Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Tom and Jerry with brother and sister.... Been there, done it in real life : P Quote
cfree68f Posted April 4, 2005 Author Posted April 4, 2005 Heres a better one.. Modified some stuff. Neck shorter. cleaned up the eyes. C Quote
NancyGormezano Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 again - looks terrific - better & better - It just seems to me that when one is inspired, knows & is in love with the subject that the art just naturally oozes with personality & appeal. Quote
Mr. Jaqe Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 I do like this one better, the shortening of the neck did the trick. Great job. Quote
KenH Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 Now you're talking! A truely original design. Nice work! His cheek bones stick out abit too much for my liking though. Quote
Newbert_Zero Posted April 4, 2005 Posted April 4, 2005 ....he looks like.........i dont know he looks scary though. Quote
strohbehn Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 Hey Colin, I LOVE this work you did! This little character is really likeable, and looks like he could be a handfull. Did you do this all with magnet mode, or did you use lattices at all to deform your mesh? Thank you for your activity on this board because it is very informative, and inspirational. Mark Quote
cfree68f Posted April 6, 2005 Author Posted April 6, 2005 Mark, yep both magnet mode and lattices. Probably equal amount of both. Some mirror mode pulling as well. Took about an hour to get from my son's original "realistic" model.. to this toon version. I had a couple of winners in the intermittent stages as well. Wish I'd saved those.. but they would be easy to reproduce. Chalk it up as another one of my "uber model" experiments. Thank you for the thank you! C Quote
Paul Forwood Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 Great fun, Colin! Is this uber experimentation by any chance? Quote
cfree68f Posted April 6, 2005 Author Posted April 6, 2005 yep. And Quiet succesfull experimentation at that. C Quote
lazz Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 That's really cool . Did you save it as a pose? or a whole seperate model. It'd be neat I'd think to see it morph from the life-like model to the cartoon version with a pose slider. Cool stuff! -Robert Lazzarini Quote
cfree68f Posted April 6, 2005 Author Posted April 6, 2005 Cool idea Xade. thats the next step in the process I suppose. It was amazing how easy it was to get from the original to this. with no deletion of splines. You guys are giving me way to many ideas. C Quote
Mr. Jaqe Posted April 6, 2005 Posted April 6, 2005 "WE WANT FLICKS! WE WANT FLICKS!" Do you have anything in store? I'm actious to see this guy move arround! Quote
cfree68f Posted April 6, 2005 Author Posted April 6, 2005 "WE WANT FLICKS! WE WANT FLICKS!" Do you have anything in store? I'm actious to see this guy move arround! Sorry.. I've got two major modelling jobs I'm working on right now.. 1 major Programming job at work and another vacation in 2 weeks.. Looks like it might be a while before he moves. :-( but he will. I like him too much to leave him in Suspended animation. I'll keep you posted. I've banned myself from any other experimentation untill I get my promised work done. Hopefully it'll get done quick. I'm dying to play. C Quote
cfree68f Posted May 20, 2005 Author Posted May 20, 2005 not sure if I'd posted these anywhere else. But these are the seeds of an animation I'm going to work on once I'm finished with my current work. the Martian... and a cuter version... comments welcome. C Quote
lazz Posted May 20, 2005 Posted May 20, 2005 woa. That's quite the transformation! . What does your son think about that model once being him? That's really cool. The first one creeps me out. Not that that's a bad thing, its good to get a reaction out of your audience, but still... its just creepy ! I think its the eyes. Anyways, cool stuff Colin, can't wait to see more. -Robert Quote
gsellis Posted May 20, 2005 Posted May 20, 2005 I worry about you Colin. You are living too close to the edge of civilization. Move inside the perimeter, QUICK! I hear banjo music looking at your latest stuff Same thing with the martian, but the banjo riffs are done on a synthesizer. Quote
modernhorse Posted May 20, 2005 Posted May 20, 2005 Sheesh! This post reminds me of how much I miss you around here Colin. This is truly a great looking model and transformation. I didn't read all the posts here but ... is this all done with magnet mode on the original mesh? And does it preserve your poses and so on? Doug Quote
cfree68f Posted May 20, 2005 Author Posted May 20, 2005 Doug, yes its all done with Magnet mode and the Lattice Tool. As far as poses working still.. it depends on the pose. For example.. if the eyelid blinks had allready been done. They wouldnt have held up if I'd done all of this in Model mode. But if you do it as a pose.. then it might. I'm still playing with it. The short answer is that some things will hold up and others will need to be tweeked. But its much faster than remodeling from scratch ;-) I'm still around.. just taking it easy in the summer. Expect to be sick of my incessant posting by November or December. C Quote
seven Posted May 22, 2005 Posted May 22, 2005 To test myself the opportunities using Magnet Mode on recommendation from cfree68f - I made this picture with melting clocks - you have to scroll down. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=107934 As you perhaps know I think it is good with tutorials - and tutorials made with WINK - small ones - 1 MByte - and made fast and easy. Why not a tutorial on Magnet Mode and the Lattice Tool - showing the possibilities? cfree68f are you willing to do it? Quote
Kamikaze Posted May 22, 2005 Posted May 22, 2005 Thats freaky Colin...did your son mind you doing that to this model? smile Michael Quote
cfree68f Posted May 22, 2005 Author Posted May 22, 2005 Yeah I might do a tutorial on it soon seven.. I'm in my slow period right now.. so things move at a glacial pace. hats freaky Colin...did your son mind you doing that to this model? Nah.. he loves being turned into all sorts of stuff. I just need to figure out some way to name this guy that has a play on Coopers name. C Quote
cfree68f Posted May 23, 2005 Author Posted May 23, 2005 The story line will be something like a Robinson Cruseo on Mars, but have a Road Runner twist to it. He will have a "Friday" character (his co-pilot) and his name his Yoric (all thats left of him will be a skull). The Alien will have many attempts to get off of Mars, and never suceed.. allways blaiming his ineptitude (he's more than a little crazy from the solitude) on his poor co-pilot Yoric (who is allready dead). Actually I thought about some weird delusional episodes where Yoric actually does sabotage the alien, but only in the alien's wild imaginings). C Quote
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