Movie Mashup: The Nightmare before Avatar ~ elemenohpe ~

[elemenohpe]

'Allo,

New to the forums, and a little late on entering, but wanted to join in on the modeling challenge:) I'm rusty but this looks like fun and will hopefully get my 3D blood flowing again.

My idea is to mash together The Nightmare before Christmas with Avatar. So the toon/claymation style of The Nightmare before Christmas, but using Avatar colors and char. I messed around a bit to get the general idea of it below.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m147/emekrueger/Mockup_Merged.jpg

Still need to do a quick sketch of the Avatar char to figure out the logistics and design. I will post that when I have it. I will warn, I am rusty lol. I'm hoping to do pretty much the Nightmare Before Christmas poster in terms of what I'm modeling and texturing.

I will be using Softimage XSI for modeling & texturing etc, Photoshop will be used to help with textures maps and compositing etc...cgtextures.com to help out with some of the textures as well.

Thanks for looking,
Elemenohpe

[Mithras]

This sound/looks like it's going to be awesome, nice concept sketch!
I'm curious how your Nightmare-Avatars will look like

[elemenohpe]

Thanks Mithras, hopefully I won't disappoint.

Here is an update with the toon sketch of Jake, in a T pose. As I warned I am rusty. This'll do it for now. Time to start modeling. Thanks for looking! and please leave any comments.


http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m147/emekrueger/Toon02.jpg

[Akim]

U got promising combinations ... and nice start, so good luck!

[chunkymunky]

Very cool, this will be great :)

[xxxcubanxxx]

a lot of members inspired by the great Tim Burton, I'll be watching.

[Tarik2d]

how this one coming along, i like the concept you have done

[chichiri]

NIce concept, waiting to see the great model.

[elemenohpe]

Sorry for the lack of updates. Work kicked it into high gear, and I've been doing mass overtime. I have done some modeling as I've been able to and will post it soon. Thanks:)

[elemenohpe]

So here is an update as to what I'm doing. I have the body made, except for a necklace which i'll make before I head to bed here shortly.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m147/emekrueger/WIP_01.jpg

I'm not sure if you can see the triangle count because the image has been resized, but its at 15k or so tri's without smoothing. There is a beaded armband with lots of beads that is causing the high count, otherwise it drops to 3.5k in tri's.

I have definitely not moved as quickly as I wanted to on this, but I'm gonna keep trudging ahead. Thanks for looking guys. I appreciate it and any comments. I hope to have a head to show sooner than later.

[eicronie]

interesting idea )
want to see head,
a little help for you )

[chichiri]

Nice work but I think the knees are a bit too low.

[elemenohpe]

Thanks for the help:)

chichiri, you're right the knees are too low. I managed to miss that. I've fixed that now, thanks for the eye.

Gonna have some dinner and start working on the head here shortly. Will post when I have something worth showing. Thanks again:D

[Ducu]

nice concept i wanna see more !!^_^

[elemenohpe]

Here is another update. Finished with modeling. I want to unwrap and add some textures. Add a few stripes and more texture to the guy. Thanks for looking!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m147/emekrueger/WIP_03.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m147/emekrueger/WIP_02.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m147/emekrueger/Render_02.jpg

[eicronie]

funny )

[chichiri]

I love it, keep going.

[matt_rib]

hahaha this is really great. keep it up.