Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes.
I a have been a devoted fan of these characters since reading the strip in the paper as a kid. I have been waiting for someone to create a cartoon for them for yr. So I decided to give it a shot myself to at least see how they may look in 3D. I really enjoyed working on Calvin and am looking forword to tackling Hobbes. These images were done mainly as a rig and facial test and though i still have a few kinks to work out I think the whole thing is pretty promising.
My goal with this project is to try animating a few of the old strips. I am an originalist, if there is such a thing. I want to stay as close to the original characters and stories as possible.

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Cranial Thump

Character Design by Greg Baldwin.
This is one of my favorite designs by Greg. He is an ubber talented artist and part of the creaturebox.com team. I will be trying a few more of there character in the future.
I enjoy modeling other peoples characters from time to time I fell it keep me honest as a modeler. I can cheat with my design but am forced to try my hardest to be true to someone else work. It is still a work in progress want to up the res on the textures and ad normal and displacement maps but for now I have to do what my computer can handle.

More with him to come.

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Dunkman

This is a character one of my fav little character I designed. Don't really know why. I have design more elaborate and detailed characters, but he's just cool to me. Got more plans for this one as well. Maybe more detail and elaborations.

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Welcome to 3dMented

I would like to say welcome to my blog and thanks for stopping by. I have been struggling with the thought of starting one of these or just getting a traditional site. My friend Nelson suggested blogging to show my new work would be best, seeing as how I really don't have time to maintain a full site. And couldn't convince him to create on for me either. Maybe in the future.

Ok so why start the blog in the first place. I have been working in the graphics field for as long as I can remember. This site is a place for me to show my new work and post tutorials for those that want to see how it is I do what I do (yet another suggestion of Nelson's). Aight then that's about all for now. Let's see how far we can ride this train.

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