this was my work on the nintendo ds game "emily the strange"
for some characters i build a high poly version for the cutsceens.
the pink bunny and sugarland princess are not showing...because...
you know...play it ;P

Awesome! Love it!

Those are awesome!

Hey Guys, here is a Lowpoly I am working on, and some thumbnails and a ortho. Altogether 498 tris. Thanx

Originally Posted by pixelchaot

(awesome images)

this was my work on the nintendo ds game "emily the strange"
for some characters i build a high poly version for the cutsceens.
the pink bunny and sugarland princess are not showing...because...
you know...play it ;P

AWESOME.

thank you guys !!!

@Pixelchatot: Wow... I envy you, really! Models are great, and animations are even greater. :O

great work, pixelchaot! really cool style and execution

Working on a watchtower from C&C Tiberian Sun

Originally Posted by pixelchaot

the pink bunny and sugarland princess are not showing...because...
you know...play it ;P

after seeing these models: i definately will!

wip!, sits at 1201 tries, current 2x128 for head and body

i hope pixel art still counts because i made this cute lil jumping astro city

Originally Posted by pixelchaot

Great work! I especially like these three. The level of squash/stretch is really uncommon to see in game animation. Would you be able to post some details on the characters rigs?

Originally Posted by pixelchaot

Cool stuff, I like that you're only using the three colours(4 with the grey).
I have a little crit about the animation above. I think you could do something more with the cane. Like give it more snap or make him twirl it(not sure if that would be appropriate for his character). Also it makes his arms swing down together which I think look a little weird.

i second this, I'd like to know specific techniques and work flows for rigging extremely low poly characters.

the animations are from jochen volz a animator (the only animator) in my company...
he makes everything "alive" also he is a talented comic drawer...
for the cat and the spider we take the catrig in max and the other charaters was done with the standart biped...he said is the fastest and the easyest way to animate for games?!
have an eye of the rotate points of the bones, hard weight skinning and sometimes its better to turn edges for better deformations...thats it!



@bruce?! thx for the critics
weird is good for emily the strange ^^
now its to late...its released!
but its only one from several animations...and its nds... 256x192 pixel you know ;)

update

Working on a little something about 3/4 of a 64x64 map used so far.

pixelchaot: amazing stuff - totally stunning
willy-wilson: another nice set of lowpoly stuff from you !

So, there goes another failure ;)
Basically I think I'm just stuck in between different mobile specs and don't know which way to go. Ultralow polycounts and textures, or higher polycounts with small textures...
So basically I started out with making lots and lots of modular pieces for a western town scene. I then started a quick mockup texture to see how everything could work out in the end. In order to save texture space I created more polygons so i could recycle the texture by rotating and mirroring. I kinda have the feeling that the geometry I'm using right now would be more suited for almost a fps kind of game. It's basically shipping around at 1000 triangles using a 256² texture with 7 different variations of wooden planks ;)



Things I've learned:
1) Really good choice to test texture on a mockup building, so you see how the texture plays out. For example I realized it's stupid to take away texture space of the planks by adding a bunch of wood profiles, when 1 is enough ;)
2) The technique with different colored planks allows for a nice variety of wood colors for single assets
3) No huge spots or creases in the wood should be applied or otherwise it will show a lot ingame with ugly lines and stuff.

I really wish there would be more Mobile Games Artists Portfolios or Technical Breakdowns available/present. I'm kinda stuck on scubasteve, madpxl and kennethfejr stuff and it's mostly single assets and not an entire level - except goldeneye stuff

thats a lot of triangles for such a tiny texture size, I would almost say a waste of triangles since you can't see the value of them in the end because of the extreme tiny texture size.

railing rungs, floorboards and window bars, should probably have fewer tris. renderhjs is correct, you're giving a lot of stuff geometry that would look absolutely no different than using planes and transparency shortcuts on a mobile device.

luke: nice highlights...

Originally Posted by willy-wilson

Working on a little something about 3/4 of a 64x64 map used so far.

I love you.

On that note here's something I made a while back. Looks a bit nicer now that it's done but it's not too different.

...and I'm done! Feel free to crit, thanks!

Well, that basically kinda confirms what I was thinking. As a mobile scene it's not balanced in texture size and polygon count. Basically the only information on level data I could gather was the golden eye thing on the DS. For PSP or other devices I don't have any valuable information onhand. If anyone should have interesting information to share, please do - I think this field could need some more enlightment
I'll just hope that more and more people jump on the bandwagon and post in here before every handheld thing can handle too many polygons and textures ;)

Thanks for the precious feedback, guys !


So basically my biggest conclusion is, this huuuuge and almost extreme modular approach is not too good for the handheld spec I was going for.