This is something im working on for a mini comp over at www.cgchat.com its psp/nds spec recreation of a computer games character (512 tris, 256 texture).. think im gonna go for a slightly darker look

Jody

haha cool
Despite being a bunch of objects put together, its neat...i like it [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

cheers, i do only have 512 tri's to play with here o_O

Jody

saw this on cgchat. Kicks ass Gok. maybe you could give him some alpha toe claws. that would be cool.

Tip: Set a camera to the correct distance that will best represent the size of your character on screen. It'll help a lot in figuring out where you need to add/take away your polygons. Your sprite art seems like a good size.

thats a cool idea, ill do that [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] thanks

Jody

sprite art..? ohhh i should have said thats a nintendo asset not mine im just doing a low poly model of it... with my own twist

yes sir i like it.

oh yea bro, no worries...my comment wasn't really a total crit...although i like to see stuff that is "complete," stuff like this is awesome too, and looks fairly good, as you did [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

i wanna see it done, start skinning, gogogo

Looks good buddy. I can't wait to see the texture you come up for it.

nabbed zeldas hood?

hawken, thats the hair [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
it looks cooler tied back like that.

Wouldn't it be useful to add some spikes to the tail? And wouldn't 3 sided spikes on the shell be sufficient?

cheers guys.. ok reason for open geometry is portable consoles like the ds cant handle bones and other advants stuff like that so this type of geometry would animate beter (its given that this model would be to heavy and has to big a texture for ds and psp but hey [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] about the spikes yehh if i make the 3 sided i could add some more tris elswhere! like the tail spikes.. cheers [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

thanks
Jody

well, you could have him boned.... I'm 99% sure that mario 64DS have boned main characters, and I'm guessing a 128x128 texture for them spread over several 8 colour textures...

good work so far though, he is recognisably King Koopa/Bowser [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

ohh ok [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] it saves polys then [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Jody

Hm, I remember hearing claims that bones are actually less ressource draining than vertex animation (less animation data, one matrix transformation per bone rather than one linear interpolation per vertex) and consoles cannot handle vertex animation but I guess that was talking about current gen...

it is only a comp... im not actualy going to put it on the machine.. it save me some polys to model it like this, and i only had 512. but yehh your probably right.

Jody

I started texturing mot 100% with this.. but ill leave it for tonight anyway o_O .hey poop i might even finish this [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Jody

Haha, this is great stuff. The texture is coming along very nicely. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

cheers man, i want to do a mario so i can STOMP on him [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Jody

its still pretty rough at the moment and thiers a lot of stuff still missing.. but i managed to do a little tonight.

Jody

I likes the style. I would like to see him a little more sickly.

It's looking cool. I'd look into pinching some polies from his shell to give him feet.

no yellow underbelly?
also tribal tattoos always help to make things look evil