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# 16 04-04-2005 , 02:41 PM

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I just can't make up my mind. I made a new set of fingers (2 & 3), but somehow the 4-fingered cartoon hand (1) would look nice to balance the cartoon look-and-feel in my character. Because I aim to make the eyes very organic looking with toon-like eyelids (will be blend animated for heavy expressions).
Then again .. the robot hands aren't bad either. Though think that the yellow fingertips are a bit too much.
Any opinions/suggestions?

Next step are the eyes and head.

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# 17 05-04-2005 , 01:02 AM

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I do like 3 the best.. as for keeping the cartoon look. On seeing the revised arm and hands.. I think it all being that way in 1 is just overkill. I think 2 and 3 bring out the charracter of the cartoon look even better. and I also think that yeah it might be to much having the fingure tips yello also..

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# 18 05-04-2005 , 04:14 PM

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Thanks.

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# 19 06-04-2005 , 12:45 PM

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Yeah 3 is starting to look very good. And I think it would be nice if you had him have 4 fingers instead of 5. that's how it always is in cartoons, so I think that's suitable here user added image

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# 20 07-04-2005 , 01:23 AM

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Cartoon hands are usually too fat for 5 fingers (the Mickey Mouse glove kinda hands) and it somehow looks very odd with 5. That's why 4 fingers are commonly used.
The robot hand has very slim fingers and I would need to fatten them out of proportion to make 'm look like cartoons.
I had considered it, but it just didn't have the look.
Thanks though. :tup:

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# 21 07-04-2005 , 01:56 PM

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Yeah that's true, you wouldn't need fat fingers like that user added image

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# 22 28-04-2005 , 10:12 AM

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Finally an update. I've been hell busy at work, and struggling to save some time for my model. Only a few days left user added image

Anyways, got the head/body shell done. Took me days to figure out how to get the trimmed edges smoothly rounding inwards. Eventually I had to Loft a few curves from the trimmed edges to get the best result.

The clips that will hold the pencils and stuff, pop out a door at the back and slide in position (all individually animatable).

Tried many (I say MANY!!) different eyes, but end up with these human like eyes but with a circuit board in the iris (individually fully animatable).

The textures are still in draft and I still need to put it in a scene and animate it. But since the whole character is rigged for animation, it wouldn't take much effort to get it to do something nice quickly.
Just worried about rendering time.

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