Hey there, I don't know if I'm in the right place or not, or how I would go about this, but I had seen the Polycount fighting game contest and really like the level of skill and range of styles, and was wondering if I could suggest a contest/collab theme?

I guess I could introduce myself first; my name is Tyler Rhodes, and I'm an animator who decided one day to make an animation about evolution. What's special about the animation is it involves many people who 'evolved' their drawings over time, which I then animated. I wanted to stray from the typical depiction of evolution as a linear process and instead represent it as a branching structure. You can see the animation here

Evolution! version:Patrick Henry School of...

and more general info on my process etc. here http://evolutionanimation.wordpress.com/

Recently it was posted about on Scientific Americans website and made their video of the week, and has since bounced its way all over the internet garnering comments from Richard Dawkins all the way to Ken Ham, so I figured the time was right to finally ask you guys if you were interested.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...e-seen-before/
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/6...ve-seen-before
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/technology...evolution.html
http://io9.com/5889824/the-most-ador...tary-schoolers

I was just l curious if you all would be willing to do some kind of collaborative something-or-other? Maybe not so much a contest, but just a fun exercise of using the kids drawings for inspiration to make some interesting 3-d art? I figured it would be the most fun to make low-poly models to keep it in the spirit of a limited crayon doodle, but anything is fine by me!

I'd love to hear your ideas, and thanks!

woah just heard about the "puppet tool" ! It's kewl!! =)
This is really interesting, but im a little lost of what you are trying to do here.. So, you want to make a 3D animation based on the drawings you've collected so far?

Not an animation really, I just thought you guys would like to springboard off from the 460 or so creatures and run with it, making some 3-d versions. GIANT version here https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59922961/ty...ize%202011.jpg



These are all of the together, and I can get you bigger images of individual creatures if needed.

This sounds like a lot of fun. Do you have a time frame you want this stuff put together?

Originally Posted by gillmeister74

This sounds like a lot of fun. Do you have a time frame you want this stuff put together?

Nope, I just figured they would make fun 3-D models (I made a clay/foam model of at least one of the creatures, some are more challenging than others to think of three dimensionally, of course), so anything goes really. In the spirit of how I got the drawings, I was just curious in other peoples interpretations of the creatures in a different medium.

I've had some interest in this through private messages, but anyone else willing to give some creatures their own personal flair?

This sounds like fun, I'll probably make one.

If you need a bigger image of any of those just tell me.

I might make one or two for fun. Can you post a bigger version of the purple squid-like creature in the upper-right orange branch? The one that has a cyan pearl or something between its eyes

Is that the one you meant?

Originally Posted by Sparr

Is that the one you meant?

Yep, that's it

Ended up looking like a pokemon

Hahahha, I love it. A lot of people mention pokemon when they see the whole tree, and pokemon does involve evolution in a small sense, so I can see why people would make the association (besides the fact that it's colorful!)

If you'd like to do any more just point them out to me; I'd like to have loads of them!

What was the resolution for your textures by the way?

Breakdown


And some toying around in gimp


Yeah, I guess I'd like to do some more, this one was fun. And it sounds like a good excercise. Could you upload this one?
It's like three or four creatures directly under my previous one

Haha, a personal favorite of mine. The part of the tree you're pulling from was made by my test group, which consisted of the people in my animation class (hence them being a lot older than the kids, and the more elaborate drawings).

When everyone saw this creature we all agreed it looked like a penis climbing a tree.

I thought I'd do it one of these days, but I'm so god-damn busy with exams and looking for a job and finding a new appartment that I haven't got a spare minute right now. I'm gonna do it later though.

No problem, take your time.

Wow, this one is turning out really freaky. Gonna finish up the modelling and do the texturing later.

haha looking good!

Can you give me a larger image of the crazy angler fish lookin' thing a little below and to the left of what appears to be the Jesus Crab? [Top Right]

Thanks!

This guy?

That's the one! Beautiful.
I'll get right on this guy first thing in the morning.

Warming up the concept in my mind before I dive into Maya with it.

This is going to be fun I can already tell.

Well, tried my hand at some lowpoly stuff recently. I tried handpainting a texture on this guy, but not matter what I tried I didn't like the look of it, so I mapped the original crayon to it directly!

Originally Posted by Sparr

Well, tried my hand at some lowpoly stuff recently. I tried handpainting a texture on this guy, but not matter what I tried I didn't like the look of it, so I mapped the original crayon to it directly!
[PICTURE]

That came out really cool!
I feel like if you had some kids draw out an entire world for them to live in they could all be rendered out like that and look awesome.