a penguin

[rossk]

Penguins have always been a favorite animal of mine. Perhaps it because they look like they are dressed in formal wear, or maybe it is just that they are physically unable to steal my french fries (unlike one of my least favorite animals: seagulls). Either way, the other day I drew some penguins for a comic (here if you're interested) which got me thinking about penguins once again. So I've decided to try making a basic model of a penguin... mainly because I'm not good enough to make a non-basic model

 

Attached is the 1st step... plan of attack is adding some feet, shaping the head a bit, shaping the rest of the body slightly, fixing the eyes, possibly adding some feathery eyebrows, decaling, then rigging.

[Mr. Jaqe]

Looks like a funny penguin!

 

Good start, but give the eyes a few extra patches (I'm guessing you lathe'd it?) or you'll get some odd artifacts when you look at the eyeball from the side.

[rossk]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions!

Yeah, the eyes were just placeholders so I didn't have a creepy eyeless penguin

[rossk]

Any suggestions for fixing the ends of the feet?

I'm getting this little blip on the end of them.

 

Thanks,

--Ross

[rossk]

front decal added, and basic colors in other areas

[rossk]

polished the decal a bit

[Rodney]

Go Ross!

 

I realize the style of your penguins is with long beaks but he kind of looks like a kiwi bird.

The color is unmistakable though.

 

Make sure you think a little bit about how he'll walk as short stubby feet are quite hard to animate.

You may want to give him at least little legs.

 

Keep it up!

[rossk]

Yep, looked kiwi birds up on google images... and you're definately right about the beak.

 

As for the walk I was thinking about a very waddling-like motion... I'll try making a walk cycle later tonight to see how it works out, then edit the feet as necessary.

 

Thanks for the help!

[the_black_mage]

ol i'm hoping your not one of those people who think penguins are gonna take over the world...were do people get that from anyway.

 

nice model btw

[rossk]

haha, thanks.

... and I don't know anything about penguins taking over the world... but here my newest render is

[MattWBradbury]

Penguins taking over the world... Ha, that's proposterous... erm >.>

[Dhar]

haha, thanks.

... and I don't know anything about penguins taking over the world... but here my newest render is

 

IS Gwynn Hash reading this?

[rossk]

? I'm a bit confused

 

Anyways, here is a simple little walk/waddle for the penguin. Next I'm planning on doing some smart skin things.

walk.mov

[Rodney]

IS Gwynn Hash reading this?

 

It took me a second... but... I got it.

 

Martin's lovely wife is quite a penguin lover.

As demonstrated at Hash Bash this past spring.

[rossk]

Ah, k, thanks.

 

Here's a slightly updated waddle

walk2.mov

[rossk]

I've been experimenting with sweeper a little bit since I'm planning on making a lot of the penguin's environment with sweeper.

 

Here's a not-serving-any-purpose-really image I put together to practice using sweeper.

[Robert-Jank]

Woot rossk! You rock!

[Rodney]

If that image is any clue I'd say that penguin is about to have some very serious fun.