Pokemon Challenge 2022 – Pokeworld in a bottle – WIP

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

Not sure yet how it will turn out, I see a mini pokemon scene in a bottle.  Not sure if it will work out as it has to be recognizable…anyway to warm-up let’s start with most basic characterssome may be quite complex.

But first, the pokeball, cause you ain’t catching them all without this…

N° 2 elongate the default cube and give it a subsurf modifier, keep an edgeloop at the bottom to flatten it out and sculpt to eye holes to add the eyes and the nose.  add a plane and use a quadratic circle gradient texture to apply earth effect and separate it from the grass.  We’ll see later how i’’l use this.

(still somewhat rough, but it’s a quick start)

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

allright, I never thought it would be so complex to try to derive a 3D image from a few 2d references… I’m trying to make a pikachu, still in the blocking out phase and having a go at edge loops etc to create the basic form, wondering at what time i’d best start to sculpt.

OUCH…. the next screencap is a uncanny valley winner 🙂

still adding loops and repositioning vertices, starting to go somewhere:

[Vue Thao]

Pika pika!

Pikachu looks adorable.

[Mel C]

So cute! Nice to see the progress shots. That uncanny valley one is basically Pikachu if it’s a real animal =D

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

attacking the main character:starting with a plane per body part that will be extruded to the basic shape

after extruding and putting the main vertices at the right spot, Ill add some basic textures so I can better visualize.

For the hair to start of quicker I’m experimenting with the spin tool, after that I can move the vertices around to give a more “hair” kind of shape

adding eyes and face decoration and jumping to sculpt mode for the mouth and the nose 

I’ll try to do a first hand and foot work tonight and then Ill iterate to get it more fidelity

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

Thanks Euv and Mel!

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

So I was thinking… What if the pokemon had to catch ‘m all, I’ll explore this idea a little more as it gives a different twist to the game.

[jammingammon]

Looks ominous… Revenge of the  Pokemon?

[jammingammon]

Ash and Pikachu are looking good already!

[Keith]

I like that idea, it’s quite a nice spin. We get to stand in the Pokemon’s shoes for a change!

Actually, it’s quite unsettling thinking about being “collected” by a giant Pokemon. It’s the stuff of nightmares 😅

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

Thx @jammingammon  , I never thought making 2d into 3d would be so hard, even with references there are a lot of gaps you have to fill in yourself. Happy with the results so far.

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

Hehe, glad you like the twist!

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

It looks like the concept is coming together.  I still feel it is really flat.  

I could go for a cartoony horror version

Ashes face is way more visible in this version and there is more depth.  I do notice I need to work on pikachu’s mouth.  

I’ll probably end somewhere in between.  I’ll focus on adding more detail to pikachu.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

This a fun twist on the original, great work so far @slenaerts 

I’m sure everyone will love this concept, even Nintendo might look at a spin off game.

I can see a new Pokemon movie in the making to, ‘Pikacho’s Revenge’.

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

• Thx @adrian2301 ,another license worth 20 years of merch and episodes  is born thx to a cgcookie challenge! we should ask a commission to Nintendo 😅

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