Hey All, So Ive been working on this on and off lately. Ive been doing so much environment work and Hardsurface stuff these last few years that I really havent done much organic stuff asside from the occasional ruin/Tree.


So I found this funny concept online (no idea who drew it , was in a random forum thread) And I decided it would be fun to make...so PROPS to the original artist..

I of course decided to amp up the design a bit more as well so it could be a full functioning device.

Well enough talk lets get to it.


The idea:

Steam Punk Pug who flys around the world in his propetial floating device powered by his little legs and pug farts :p


Concept


HighPoly





LowPoly Bakes_Goggles...so far

haha nice start you gotta get that weightless helpless pose the concept has on the dog

This little dog has character!
Looking forward to the end-result.

I find the goggle's fitting on the dog's head a bit off.
The glasses itself are tight to the dog's face, but the headband seems too loose. Maybe the headband should be tighter around the back of it's head?

lookin good remi, the goggles need to be bigger and pointed out like his eyes are though... give him that confused googly-eyed look

Originally Posted by Ferg

lookin good remi, the goggles need to be bigger and pointed out like his eyes are though... give him that confused googly-eyed look

Was going to say this but found it already posted. So, seconded. Need those goggles to go more in the direction of the concept.

saw this in waywo. I really dig the idea. Good luck mang.

updated with chunkier bigger goggles.

And now a texture update with more pug butt


Going to start baking out the blimp shortly.

so much win. Never before has a dogs butthole been created so nicely in any sort of artistic medium.

I said when I came in here, "If I don't see a dogs but-hole in here, I'm never coming back".
You just saved your thread.

As told to me by a old creative director I worked for "its the details that make things shine"
There's to much Dick on polycount lately...needs more buttholes. lol.


Anyway, a late night update with updated materials and lighting placement and textures.Anyone have any suggestions to make furry bits pop more in spec/gloss? I'll post flats if people are interested?

Just a update to the Professor's Flying Device.

nice, tho i personaly like it more in the concept where he's just strapped in and its not cluttered up with controls an such.

Original artist is Robin Latkovich,FYI.http://robinlatkovich.com/

I agree with Rhinokey. I love the simplicity in the original concept compared to the complexity of the controls you added.

I also had the original design but when I was working on it I had a few people tell me that the design does not make sense there was nothing holding him in place...then someone mentioned how did he control it..pug farts? (hince the butthole) So I figured to add a bit of my own flare to it :p

I contacted the artist who drew that so thanks for that heads up!

hey everyone, Just wanted to give a update, Baked out the blimp

Blimp is sitting on 5420 tri's, Pug sits at 2870 tri's and the goggles sit at 716 tri's

All together adding up to 9006 tri's , 1k less then I was expecting this to be!

Anywho here's the bakes so far and AO , nothing yet as far as textures go.






Edit:

Quick LULZ

I really don't know what to make of this... haha pretty funny and looks pretty good too. Good work, esp on the dog.

Thanks for the kind words.


And one more Lulz update.

ok just a few more updates...going to be leaving town this sunday and going home for a bit...so I gotta wrap this guy up!

looking great hahah love the design!

NICE!

i'm a bit late to the party, but

i think the fins had much more interesting shapes in the concept. got them rakish angles

and your straps are floating around the balloon.

Dood! this is good! hahah pure awesomeness.

Haha this is awesome. One thing that i could say is that the little pug is looking a lil to stiff, maybe if you just make his bottom half bend down wards a bit so it looks like he is actually being carried by the device.

This is the best thing. The best.

Hahaha awesome... Yea I'm not so sure about the pedal now and the straps on the balloon are floating but over all its full of win.