Dwarf-like Being with big hammer

[Dirk]

tata...

[iluvatar]

hey dirk!

i REALLY like the model but maybe the guy is a little bit overlightened? and the texture on the hammer head looks weird to me, but it doesn't make it a bad image! nice one

greetz,
Smeaggie

[Dirk]

hmmm, I like the light, it makes the whole picture look so "graphically", comic-like in a way. But the hammer-texture is really strange... well, this one is better, me thinks:

[iluvatar]

wow man that's cool!! texture looks much better to me! i guess u're right about the lightning, it gives a cartonic look :D but isn't an option to use cel shaders for an even more cartonic look?

[Dirk]

cel shader would'nt give me what I want, I guess.... It's those totally overexposed look that one can see on some TV-Ads...

here is an animation (Quicktime movie):

[iluvatar]

hi man! just saw your movie, nice animation... you're going to animate a complete movie with this character? i'm curious! you're right about lightning, looks fine!

[Dirk]

Ahhh, I dont know. I dont have a story... maybe I'll just animate some sequences. I'm thinking about this character, running around on a really strange looking landscape, trying to catch some sort of flying ... hhmmm? (dont know right now). And this flying Thing is hiding in some sort of craters. A little bit like Tom & Jerry....

well, just rendering. Can show You something in a few minutes...

[Dirk]

O.k., here it is. I'm not really happy with the sky, the clouds could look thicker. Ond the crater should look wet on its top, but I have problems with that, maybe because of the symbiontLWShader which I use for the Landscape. And I need some sort of rocks or trees(?). No, I think it will look like some big pink-greyish blobs with some hairs....

[Dirk]

here we go...

Funny thing, the smoke looks different, allthough I use a distant light only for it...

[cathuria]

I can't say that I have the slightest idea what's going on here -- but I like it!:D

[groodwanderer]

ummmmm.....those blobby things with hair on em look like.....well they look like mutated.....you know.....

anyways this character looks like maybe he should be chasing something on the ground. Not something that flies, his little legs couldn't keep up. :D

[JeromeMD]

Are the huge hairy balls on the left part of another character? If yes, have the short guy hit them with that hammer !!!

:)

[Dirk]

Ahh, I was thinking about the character that the Hammerdwarf will hunt. First, I thought it has to be some really cute character, like a mixture of a Pixie and Bambi. So that everybody will whine when the Hammerdwarf hurts it. But somehow, this is'nt INSANE enough. Well, that's what came into my mind, then:

[AlphaBeta]

Ummmm....did you mean to make those blobs look like Ogre testicles???? lol.......Love the dwarf and the little green dude.....

[Dete]

Cool characters man !! the hammerdwarf really rule !

Nice ogre testicles too ;D !

.: Dete :..

[Dirk]

Yeahhh, here we GO....

[Adrian Lopez]

That fourth image with the smoking craters, the hairy meat blobs and the little dwarf running around looks like something out of Monty Python (yet quite original). I like it. :)

Can't wait to see the blob chasing the bluish thingy.

[Dirk]

Originally posted by Adrian Lopez
That fourth image with the smoking craters, the hairy meat blobs and the little dwarf running around looks like something out of Monty Python (yet quite original). I like it. :)


Really? Thats great, I love the Phytons, especially Terry Gilliam, the Animator and Director of "Time Bandits" & "Brazil".