Saturday 15 February 2014

Cubeecraft Side Project


So during the seminar before last Emma suggested that we create a Cubeecraft character in 3ds Max, rather than as paper craft. So straight away I knew I wanted to make Catbug from Bravest Warriors because I thought that he'd look cool in the blockey Cubeecraft style. 
Seen as the Cubeecraft model is designed for human or humanoids I made some adjustments to the proportions so that they would suit Catbug's body type, while still in keeping with the Cubeecraft style.


And rather than drawing his neutral facial expression I drew the one above, because adorable. So damn adorable.


 So this is how it ended up looking:



I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out, it's really nice to do these little and less challenging projects to break up staring at a transit van for hours on end. Also I found out that even with something as simple as this I can still terribly mess up unwrapping and having to re unwrap 3 times.

 Image Sources:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8e0ASIZyQ (Still from video)
 http://www.cubeecraft.com/blog/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFWb7DG7zTc (Still from video)