here is th latest, I am going to experiment on the shaders a little bit now...

other peole eat - and you just redo a character. looking interesting. - but maybe a little bit too fat.

here is an update, check out the teeth, eat, who needs to eat? I love this stuff.

this will be my last post for a while. Here the Char is on the deck, just for a test. THanks,
Brian

oops, forgot image again. lol

I definetly like the look of this char. better than the last, but Now I am wondering what it could actually do... Hmmm... Its, just kind of "there". Dosen't have any arms or anything. Grrr... Well back to the drawing board again... sorry about all the post hope you guys don't mind. THanks,
Brian

Hey Brian, its Kurt. Your new char looks great. Maybe give your deck wheel chair access so he could get down and maybe try and give your xmas tree some miracle grow and see what it looks like when its huge and gnarled, just a thought. Gimme a holler later.

Hey kurt. Thanks for the reply, yeah... not sure what I am going to do now. Had a few more ideas. both the Wheel chair access and making the tree bigger are good ideas. Have tons more work to do, but I will give you a call about it later. Ummm.....off the subject, I can meet with you tomorrow to do the Matchmoving on the scene with ET. THanks for the C&C, talk to you later,
me

Facinating little environment you keep adding to - can't wait to see what comes next... :)

hey guys, here is the start of my next char... my 3rd one. THinking about adding a couple characters, and then making them sit down in a school type enviorment with desks on the deck, then have a "teacher" char standing up pointing to a a drawing, with a chrismas tree with an x thru it, and it on fire. :) let me know what you think, thanks,
Brian

what a great scene you are building there! brain ermm speed.. lol

here is another update of this guy, thanks,
THought that this was kinda wierd looking,
I'm going to make one side black and the other one white.
brian

That's what I call twisted :) Imagine it walking :D

here is the latest on that guy...

hard to tell from that pic, but he is fat on one side and skinny on the other. let me know what you think,
Brian

To me it looks like the half which is facing to the right is pulling the other half forward. That initiated another idea: why don't you make the other half completely black and the other white. It would be like grown together twins fighting to get rid of each other. Don't know how that relates to the topic of the challenge tho :D

Thats really funny because that is exactly what my Girlfriend just said when I showed it to her, yeah, thats what I am going to do I will change it when I get home tonight. I am really not trying to spend to much time on some of the guys since they are just going to be sitting in the background of my final image. thanks for your C&C,
Brian

great character! I can see him barbequeing Rudolph steaks... cracking a beer as it starts to snow - argueing with itself

WOW!! amazing work :D i think theres a bit too much black and white going on, confuses me eyes :confused:

speedy: how long has it taken you to get to the stage ur at now? and how long have you been using maya?

damn.. brian.. you've been busy,and i'm likin' it.. nice work man.. i like the b&w touch too... just hopin' you'll make the scene a lil' bit more twisted.. :D

Hey guys, trust me, there is going to be alot more going on with this scene. It will be twisted, just working on the basic stuff right now. There will also be more color here and there. It’s only been a week, and I still have two more. :D :D How long have I been working on this scene? Well I think I started working on it on Tues or wed, and I have been consistently working on it during my lunch breaks at work for about a week now. kind of busy this weekend, not sure if you remember my modern day pod racer that I was working on, but I am doing all of the camera tracking, Match moving, animation and compositing this weekend, yikes :eek: so I won't be able to work on the scene this weekend. :( :( This is my first challenge; I really like participating in the challenges. How long have I been working with Maya? Well I started using it when I was 18. So, that’s about 2.5 years now, Day and night everyday, literally. At least 16-18 hours a day. And I still work and go to school full time now. :o I have a 40 GB external hard drive, with only my unfinished Maya Projects/models/animations, and I am already using 38 GB! I really need to put everything together on a demo reel, but I am always starting something new, its hard to find time to make a demo, especially now since I am probably (not definitely) moving to Australia. Well, if you have anymore questions please let me know, thanks for all of your compliments guys,
Brian

oh - wow - that explains where you learned all the stuff. when did you sleep in the last 2 1/2 years?

sleep, who needs sleep? its highly over rated, lol. Hey, btw our Et animation is well on its way to being finnished!! I will try and make a post with it on finnished work next week! thanks,
Brian

I just got done watching BeetleJuice and Nightmare before Christmas! I Have alot more Ideas for a scene now, but I may have to scratch my House and Deck :( I am going to keep the same style and everything, but I may decide to make it an indoor scene instead of an out door scene. I don't know we'll see, WHat do you think? THanks,
Brian

make a movie out of it - so going from outside to inside.

or what could be real cool - make it an indoor scene - but that it looks like outside - like in harry potter where you can see the bewitched sky ;)

Well, this is the start of my main character, this is going to be my twisted santa, yes, I intentionaly made it so you could see my patches, I am going to make it look like they are "stiched" together. Let me know what you think,
Brian

Here is an update, I took off the lips to make room for my nasty teeth. Is it starting to get more twisted??

Here are his arms....

Hey guys, I have a question for the moderators of this challenge. I have downloaded the skeleton off of Simplymaya.com. I have done some major rework on it (to make it look nicer, and I plan on having the majority of it covered by the "plates" that I have started to model. Anyways, I was wondering if I could use the skeleton in my model as part of my Character... Please let me know if I can use it or not. THanks alot guys,
Brian

Hmmm, Pinheads unknown brother is taking on a chistmas spirit. This guy actually has that something special that makes him scary I think.

I hope you are going for a bleached skin and not a nice tan Brian! :D

um... Pinheads unknown brother? who is that? Just wondering,
Brian

And guys, if I can't use the skeleton for the competition, then that is not a problem at all, just let me know, I can improvise. Thanks,
Brian

Well, he doesn't actually look quite lilke Pinhead but that came to my mind. Well, Pinhead is that horrible guy in the series of films named Hellraiser. I think there are five of these films. The last one is set to a spacestation.

oh.... I think I know what you are talking about now...

hey that is twised - looks like the face mask of hannibal - but all over the body - aehm - skeleton. would be real wicked if you stich him together with rusty wire.

but i would consider improvising a bit. even if the skeleton was changed - the problem is that you did not intitially made it in the first place. and it does not justify to break the rules (maybe unwritten - i am no judge anyway) that you use something you did not create yourself within the time of the challenge. not even if it is only 1% of all your scene.

and as everything you made til now is improvised, you should have no problem creating a skeleton yourself. oh - if you say time is limited - when i dont want to see what you would be able to do if you had more time for this challenge ...

Ducky,
you sound a bit defensive there? I have not done a challenge before, That is why I asked about the skeleton. I did not know. And yes, your right, while it would not be that big of a deal for me to create a torso myself, I just thought that the skeleton looked good inside. As far as making everything within the time of the challenge, everything has been made within the time period of the challenge up to date except for the skeleton, wich I obviously imported this morning. did not take credit for it or anything. Well, as you wish, I don't want to offend anyone here, so I will model my own torso. But, I do like your idea for rusty wire!

Man,,,,,,,what takes you ten minutes, takes me ten years to make, and,,,,,,,,, my model won't look as good.:)

Dam, thats a nice x-mas theme you have going.

Thanks for the reply... Here is the start of my flame thrower. why a flame thrower?? see the christmas tree?? :D :D :D
Brian

Here is the final flame thrower model.

Here is the latest with the flame thrower attached to the character. Let me know what you think. THanks,
Brian