This is not a challenge, it's a collaboration. The goal is to make a collage featuring the works of many 3D artists. This collage will then become a wallpaper for anyone to enjoy. No need to compete, just to create something you enjoy and have it showcased along with many other people.

The subject: Saturday Morning Cartoons!

Create your favorite cartoon character of all time. This could be Scooby-Doo or one of the Rescue Rangers or a Smurf or what have you. Any cartoon character that graced the small screen that you want.

Pose your character so he/she is looking at the camera, smiling or waving - something that expresses "Hey, happy to be apart of this get-together!". If it's a villain/bad guy, he/she can be in character. If you are not good at rigging you may have to model the pose. There are ways I can fix it up in post too.

Output a render of your character against a background color that can be extracted easily. I will assemble the renders into one big wallpaper.

The end result, a collage of characters, all in 3D glory.

Because it's not a challenge, I don't want you to get all caught up on requirements. I also do not want this to take up too much of your time.

Ballpark requirements:

One character, 700-1200 Tris
Try to keep texture maps to about 512 x 512 total.
Output a high-res image with the character pose that I can use in a collage.
Post all your work and progress in this thread.

If you have to go a bit overboard with the tris or textures that is okay. I don't think it would be beneficial if one person submitted a mudbrush sculpted masterpiece while another entered a boxy-looking character.

This is just for fun.



With Saturday morning cartoons, there is a lot of breathing room for genre. You can do a Superhero, or a video game character featured in a show, a toy-based show (He-Man), or use a character from a "spinoff" show, like Teen Wolf, Beetlejuice. or Ghostbusters. You get the idea.

Some obscure shows I'd like to see revived: Kidd Video, Megas XLR, Dungeons and Dragons, MASK.

If you have an existing character you'd like to submit go for it. The more the merrier here.

Have Fun!!!

count me in. I'm working on something now.

I might drop a few TFers in there:



However I'll try to make a new one or two for this. It's tough to decide who.

snarf?

ThunderCats is a must-have. Snarf away, snarf snarf.

I was hoping for more response! Ah well. Moderator can you please delete the thread? Thanks!

Haha, no reason to just give up like that. The Low Poly section always seems to have less people.

If this thing is still going on I might just have to whip something up

capt. planet!

You could make this an indefinite ongoing thing, where you would keep updating the main collage pic with each newly made character, then it wouldn't be so disappointing if it takes a while to get a lot of characters.

You guys are right, I'll stick with it. I still haven't decided who I want to work on yet...

Edit: Samurai Jack.

please, no snarf

I am SO in!

This is a sweet idea. Im on it.

Im in! is there a deadline?

I've decided that I'm going to do Rainbow Brite. I did a lil bit on my lunch break today.. hope to work more on this tomrrow

Sounds like fun...

Wipped this guy up in about a day. Not the best model for a "character", since his head is chopped up for the hair and the hair is crap and won't animate, but it'll be posed like it is now. I was planning on modeling Mystery, the seahorse, and putting him on top. So, I would just rig him riding on her. (Please, no perverted remarks.) Anyways, not sure if I'll get a chance to finish, but will try and make some time in the next couple of weeks.

Originally Posted by Mouldtooth

Im in! is there a deadline?

Nope. This is an ongoing thing. Multiple collages will probably be yielded.

Excellent work on Spongebob and Rainbow Brite!

My Samurai Jack started looking Batman-ish, so I completed as such. Will still do Samurai Jack, and perhaps revisit some of my older stuff, like Megas XLR. Clocks in at 1094 Tris, left my texture open for future additions (batarang?).

Now I got both Supes and Bats from the 90's cartoons. I'll ease on my posts here...don't want to overrun this thread!

Supes is not yet textured. He has a bunch of toon shaders applied. What I did for Batman was a make a blinn shader with a texture map (with alpha tranparency) overlaying the toon shaders in a layered shader.

And no worries if you'd like to do the same characters. Redundancy is not an evil thing here. Looking at the example posted in the beginning of the thread...there are 3 or 4 Optimus Primes in there for whatever reason.

/delurks

Well, this is where I'll chime in, I think it would cheer you up to hear you'll have another contribution.

I'm doing Arsène Lupin from Nighthood (or "Les Exploits d'Arsène Lupin" as I watched it younger...)

You Tube

The modeling is pretty much done, clocking 970 tris and now I'm trying to figure out toon shaders... I'll need to unwrap, texture and change his pose (not necessarily in that order).

And now because I'm shy and kinda still a newbie at this I won't dare to post a screenshot. "
Cheers!(?)

Originally Posted by CelebrenIthil

I'm trying to figure out toon shaders... I'll need to unwrap, texture and change his pose (not necessarily in that order).

And now because I'm shy and kinda still a newbie at this I won't dare to post a screenshot. :"
Cheers!(?)

FYI you don't have to use toon shaders...whatever you'd like to run with. There is no fixed style.

Also this is the best place to post if you're a newbie. You get lots of great advice and tips. Check out the other Low Poly Challenge threads to see how helpful polycounters are.

I call dibs on the Ninja Turtles, from the 80s! And possibly any random combination of the random villains they've faced over the years.. I'll have to go check my toy collection.