Pokémon Challenge 2022 – Celebi – WIP

[Keith]

Looking good so far Wendy! I think we all feel apprehensive about posting WIPs for the world to see – it does always feel a bit scary! Definitely a good way to keep motivated and see your own development though!

Regarding your question about colouring – you could always just use vertex paint on a character like this I think. That way you would avoid retopology and UV unwrapping if you are not that comfortable with it just yet. 

For the background you could import a nice forest picture as a plane behind your model, and just use depth of field settings with the camera to blur it out. Again I think that could work well on a project like this! 👍

[Wendy Robinson]

Working on some elements for the scene I’m thinking of.

[Wendy Robinson]

Went back to basics on Celebi and fixed some of the topology  that was bugging me.

[spikeyxxx]

Looking great already Wendy (now I have to think about Peter Pan…)!

Maybe think about if you want the legs to body connection more like this perhaps:

But that’s all up to you of course:)

Keep going!

[Wendy Robinson]

Wouldn’t that cause pinching on those poles though?

[Wendy Robinson]

Just thought I’d put a close up shot of the area we are discussing. 

[Wendy Robinson]

More like this?

[Wendy Robinson]

[Wendy Robinson]

Final touch up. 

[spikeyxxx]

I looked at it again, a bit closer this time, and I think I was wrong (got thown off by the shadowing) :

You’re really close to this reference 👍🏻

[Wendy Robinson]

Well, I still appreciate your comment. It got me to look at it closer and realign some of the vertices.  I think it looks better than it did before. So thanks! 😄

[spikeyxxx]

Wouldn’t that cause pinching on those poles though?

It would indeed, but that could easily be fixed like this:

[Wendy Robinson]

I’m so discouraged! =< It doesn’t look anything like I hoped it would. I wanted to be able to pose Celebi looking all cute sitting on the roof and eating a berry. Instead I get a model that hardly even looks like Celebi.

[jammingammon]

I  wouldn’t be too hard on yourself. It’s a good start, and you’ve got another 2 weeks left. I think if you work on lighting and shading some more it will come a long way.

[spikeyxxx]

I agree with @jammingammon and your character is definitely recognizable as Celebi!

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