Sunday, March 31, 2013

Krillin

I was playing with the new anime shaders I recently got when I decided to try making my own Krillin model!  SoupGoblin and I were talking a bit about Krillin (a pint-size stud from the Dragon Ball series) and DBZ in general, and it got me in the mood to try rendering my very first anime guy.

The shaders were extremely difficult to deal with in the beginning.  The documentation is... well, non-existent, to be honest, so I was left mostly in the dark as to what to do to give him a nice, anime look.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to make him exactly like I want (he still has a nose, for instance), and he still looks a little more 3D than I'd like, but I think this first attempt is pretty nice and I wanted to share him with you guys.

He may seem a little too tall here, but he's actually about 30% smaller than my other characters.

I'd love to try and make a Goku for him to "hang out with", but... that hair...  I have nothing remotely resembling that hair of his.




Update: As per SoupGoblin's awesome suggestion, I made a quick version of Nappa (who's already a damn tall character) and put him next to Krillin to show off a better size difference.  Poor Krillin.  Size doesn't really matter all that much, does it? *grin*

8 comments:

  1. Ooh, nice! It's fun knowing someone else had a thing for that Shaolin shrimp.

    He does seem too tall to me (I'm a big fan of midget Krillin xD) but that's probably because we're seeing him on his own and not next to a comparatively taller guy.

    And yeah, I can see how Goku's hair would be problematic. Hell, most of the guys' hair in the series. There's always the other bald men though, Tien and Nappa . . .

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    1. I was gonna put him next to someone to highlight the difference in size, but I was struggling as it was with the shaders that I didn't want to have to do it all over again with another model. @_@

      An hour later: Oh, what the hell, I went ahead and did a not-so-similar Nappa. :D

      Man, these guys are really difficult to recreate with what I have to work with. Then again, it's probably just that I'm too new to working with the anime aesthetic in 3D. It's pretty fun, though!

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  2. There's some Goku hair here:

    http://contentparadise.com/productDetails.aspx?id=21715

    It cost 0.00$ :)

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    1. Thank you for the link, but I don't think I'd want to use that particular piece.

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  3. I love Nappa!!! Please please please do Recoome at some point, he's my absolute favorite of any anime!

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    1. I would definitely love to try my hand at him sometime! I'm just getting started working with the anime shaders and these unconventional head shapes, so I'm still really rough around the edges there. I'll make a note of it for later on -- thanks for the suggestion!

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    2. Recoome vs Nappa would be hot. ;]

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    3. Oh yeah. *grins wide* I don't think it'd be too hard to decide who would win that fight. Nappa would be happily bashing away on the Ginyu while he was busy holding a sensational pose. ;)

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