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Yep much better looking sweet now!

looking sweet man, one thing that bothers me though is the movement of the jacket, especially noticeable on the left hand side when he's stationary, i think this would look a lot better if it was a bit stiffer

These people realise it's not real right?

Lmao , sure man no problem , I'm just out at the moment when i get back home I'll send you a link, be warned it's a heavey mesh with sub D on, 11 million polys heavey haha.

looking much better already

Hmmm , as Fresh pointed out at the moment it's looking weird because you now have more stylised proportions but still have a relatively realistic look, and usually these don't really go together well, if you're going for stylised I'd soften things up a bit so it all flows from top to bottom more smoothly so the whole character has a nice silloette, at the moment he kind of looks like a dwaf with a stretched torso

Hey man looking good so far although if you're going for a more cartoony look and are intent on having the head that large I'd make the body shorter with more stubby short legs, I'd have the feet somewhere roughly where the knees are now, as at the moment you have a relatively realisticly proportioned body and a massive head, and it looks a bit off to me but that's just my 2 cents :)

cheers man its been alot of fun so far

Whats up guys so heres a bit of an update, fair bits changed since the initial post, started to refine the materials, added some moonshine and rope, shotgun, redid the rolled up blanket on the back and made a few other adjustment, did some higher res renders so you can get a look at him up close :D just click full size.

I have alot of respect for riggers, complex rigging really is an art form in its self, far more complex, technical and difficult than modelling in my opinion, which I could pretty much do in my sleep at this point, my main problem is I'm not as passionate about the technical side of 3d as I am about the art side, once I get an idea for a character I'm off and modelling and finished by the time most people are just about done planning out what it's gonna look like etc, and I've pretty much got the next one planned while I'm modelling the current one, so it's something I definitely need to work on, @everfresh has been chipping away at me for ages , I think he may have given up now though lol. I appreciate the offer Dan that's very generous :D

Let me know when there's an auto fit drag and drop rig I can just plonk on to the character and have it auto weight it 100 percent accurately and I'll jump on board

Might have to compromise and go for a barrel of it instead

HA What i need is to figure out what a hillbilly stores on his pig...cup holder ? XD

oooh peer pressure

This is Pig, he's er, well...he's a Pig, and also a not so noble steed by the looks of things! still a work in progress :)

Certainly not going to be able to please everyone, but it is disappointing, as @everfresh has made a point of, that there's no updates to the character animation side of things, and @Cerbera hopes for a properly working opensubdiv, seem to have been dashed again, still some nice new features like nodal materials which i wasn't expecting :)

Bob the first link there doesn't work for me when I click it, I'm with vozz I was expecting some crazy good robot renders, was quite pleasently surprised :D

No worries man glad you like it :p , renders looking pretty sweet too :D

Thanks dude, no worries :)

Worth mentioning that the interceptor model is now available for a free download, there's a lounge thread but i also thought i'd post it here incase anyone misses is https://www.dropbox.com/s/0geu0e4mioodfu3/Interceptor Vector Edition.c4d?dl=0

Posted them on deviant, opened them in a separate window then copy and pasted the link.

So been floating the idea around to put this up for free for sometime, finally thought screw it , so here it is the "VE" or Vector Edition of the Tie interceptor, basic form is true to the original with some of my own details chucked in, redesigned centre wing cannons, wing tip blasters, greebles, completely redesigned rear wing panels ( these were painful ) , body details, rear thrusters, etc the ship is also considerably wider than the original, giving it more of an aggressive look I tried to clean up the geo, and reduce the poly count as much as possible, while keeping everything smooth looking, Sub D is off by default, as the ship is 11 million polys plus subdivided! having it set to 2 will give the best smoothing quality, all the geo is grouped together in corresponding nulled hierarchy, i didn't even attempt to name each individual part, but i did combine some of the more detailed areas to make it less hectic , i feel like i probably could have done a few bits better if i were to do it again, especially the edges on the bobbley wing panels , i did these last, so they're a bit rough, but by this time i'd pretty much lost the will to live and they're hidden so i didn't care :D nothing special really just a lot of sub d modelled bits chucked together! The model is for personal use only, so i'd appreciate it, if it didn't end up on turbosquid, unless you wanna send me the money ;) model comes untextured, can't be too generous right? there's some 6k images below so you can see what you're getting before you download it ( just need to click them a few times to view them full size) anyways, links below, V Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0geu0e4mioodfu3/Interceptor Vector Edition.c4d?dl=0

Indeed would be fun to see what it can do. Although I haven't done much of anything 3d lately outside of work this has tempted me to take on another stupidly detailed project, I have a mercersades I started doing some time ago but I think I might pick something else.

First 2 be links are broken for me

Ha, it's a good thing in the long run, but it certainly isn't the best time for another little human, still like you say you can give it back! soon as the little ones in your arms, you'll turn into a soppy mess :P