Monster in a box
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This is a Unity3d iPhone project Im currently finishing with Commander Keen. Artwork and animations are done by me and programming and physics by Commander Keen.
The Monsterhead is fully physic animated with collisions. You can drag and push everything in the face with your finger. The Monster has animations which work with the physics. Everytime you start the app a different random monster skin is there. The Spider is also physic animated and appears randomly:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDmreIUkbFs[/ame]
I made the Monster in Zbrush and baked AO and slight shadeing in the Textures of the low poly.
Getting the physics work that well was a lot of work, we had to tweak it a lot to get it working on the iphone with a good performance. Commander Keen had to make a total different physics setup, because our first version run only with 2 fps on the iphone. The low poly and skin had been tweaked over time to be more optimized for the animation and for the performance on the iphone. I also had to make les bones in the final rig but all important facial features have still there own bone. Getting the animations work along with the physics was also a obstacle and it was tricky to do the animations for it because I could not see in 3ds Max how they will look with the physics and some things would looked lots different in unity then. On the other side i had to animate les because a lot of animation got automaticly animated by the physics.
Here are some more of the skins, i think i have made more then 40 by now
The Monsterhead is fully physic animated with collisions. You can drag and push everything in the face with your finger. The Monster has animations which work with the physics. Everytime you start the app a different random monster skin is there. The Spider is also physic animated and appears randomly:
[ame]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDmreIUkbFs[/ame]I made the Monster in Zbrush and baked AO and slight shadeing in the Textures of the low poly.
Getting the physics work that well was a lot of work, we had to tweak it a lot to get it working on the iphone with a good performance. Commander Keen had to make a total different physics setup, because our first version run only with 2 fps on the iphone. The low poly and skin had been tweaked over time to be more optimized for the animation and for the performance on the iphone. I also had to make les bones in the final rig but all important facial features have still there own bone. Getting the animations work along with the physics was also a obstacle and it was tricky to do the animations for it because I could not see in 3ds Max how they will look with the physics and some things would looked lots different in unity then. On the other side i had to animate les because a lot of animation got automaticly animated by the physics.
Here are some more of the skins, i think i have made more then 40 by now
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Great style. Looks like a way trippy application.
As for the app, it looks pretty funny, although I think more animation and less sensitive physics would be nice. As it is, the clipping and tearing is making things pretty extreme.
Reminds me of the Mario64 intro haha
Beautiful though, looks like it was a fun thing to make, and play with.
when you shook it and he wobbled I just imagined the boobs in a box app lol
@ Zelzaan
But you cant punch mario in that intro!
@ larolaro
yea he kinda is a really soft monster but stiffen the bones would also make the dragging not as much possible.
@ MightyPea
clipping and tearing is something that cant be avoided, our first version had the physics of the bones better connected to each other but that also took much too much performance.
@ HonkyPunch
yea, there is a stimpy skin
@ Ged
yea, Monster Boobs in a box!