Alien

[thetanman]

I think Victor Navone's Alien song is such an inspiration that I decided to make my own alien. Here is what I have so far.

[thetanman]

Here is an update on the Alien. this is a female also. i would like to give her a name. i would like suggestions on what to name her. something to do with the mountain dew logo. anybody have any other logo suggestions. i was going to use a animation: master logo, but everybody uses that one.

[robcat2075]

If she's going to endorse a soft drink , she'll need a mouth to drink it with.

[thetanman]

i know. this is my first character to model. i am trying to figure out how i am going to do that.

[thetanman]

Here is an update on the Alien. I still have to model her mouth (suggestions please), her hands, and her legs.

[Jequed]

Post a shaded wireframe of the head and I can show you how to make a mouth.

[ruscular]

you could make a cartoon mouth like in killer bean animation?

[thetanman]

ok i will later.right now i am staying with my cousins. i will be back this weekend.

[thetanman]

here are the shaded/wireframe pics!

[KenH]

Um....this might be a way to get the mouth in there.....

[thetanman]

are you saying that I should break the splines, and then extrude the cp's to form the mouth??

[KenH]

The vertical ones yes. It might mean you'll have to work abit to get the shape back, but it's the only way to get a hole in the side of the head.

[thetanman]

ok i will try that

[thetanman]

ok i am stuck! how do you make five point patches because i think i am going to have to do that. I have pictures attached to show you.

[thetanman]

can somebody please help me!?

[largento]

Tan, look back at the splines Ken drew. See the horizontal one that needs to be added?

[Joe Gamblin]

Yeah, Tanman, I think you're going to have to go the five point route.

 

First thing I'd do is extrude the mouth ring and use two rings so that the area that you deform during animation doesn't have the five pointers in it. Take a look at the picture below, I think that can explain it better than I can. However, I would try to make the outer circle as large as possible so you have lots of room to animate the mouth area with.

 

Second, you have five splines going into the points under the eyes. I'd turn that into fives as well or you'll get creases.

 

Third, I don't know if you'll need it, but remember that you can add detail to the model pretty easy by clicking on a point and hitting the Y on your keyboard. So I'd add a spline between the eye and the mouth so that the fives will will be more pentagon shaped and the closer to a pentagon the smoother it is.

 

Hope this helps.

[thetanman]

i figured it out thanks for all of yours guys help. BTW, do any of you know a good tutorial on how to make a hand?????

[Joe Gamblin]

As for the hand

Here for a simple cartoon hand

http://www.hash.com/users/jsherwood/tutes/britton/hand.html

And here for another good one on how to avoid creases (beware, lots of fives involved)

http://bellsouthpwp.net/R/o/RobertFrazier/...ts/Digits01.htm

[thetanman]

finally i got a mouth!!!!!!! thanks for the hand tutorial!!!

[thetanman]

update on the mouth!

[totlover]

i like the mouth...

 

i decided to start on my own simple alien...

[thetanman]

update

[totlover]

nice