American elf model

So here's my homage to James Kochalka. I was trying to make a modeling demo reel and I thought it would be fun to take a couple of typically flat designs and flesh them out into a 3-d world. Originally, I was going to pose and texture him out like a Pocoyo character because I love the designs in that show. That could have been fun, though, by the time I got to that point I was already pulling my hair out in frustration with the limitations and general ugliness of Maya so I scrapped it.


In any case, now that I'm at the end of my career as an animation student, I decided to share this with any other James Kochalka fans out there. You can check his work out at americanelf.com.


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[scarble]

Wow! That's Amazing.

James Kochalka linked to this in his news post on americanelf today :-)

I too like.. the character design of Pocoyo. I sit and giggle like a small child because I like the character design.

[jasonosaurus]

i noticed that he posted it, made my day :)

and yeah, Pocoyo is AMAZING!

[Cthulku]

It's great how he appears to be in a somewhat freaked out pose. Nice work!

[jasonosaurus]

thanks! He's in a "t" pose, its supposed to make it easier to rig him up to actually pose him.

[Biguglyrobot]

I would love to see this model fully rendered with colors and textures, romping around through a kochalka colored world

[PandaNerd]

Looks great, you even put the pointy part on the back of his cranium!

[Cthulku]

:-)

The facial expression was what gave me the impression mostly. His body language looks more like 'I want a hug'.

[cuneytarkin]

cool