Game Characters

I was asked to help make some characters for a 2D side scrolling game. This will involve some enemies and their attacks, making some objects to jump over and making a who heap of animations for the player character. some of which will be a jump, attack with different weapons, run and so on. I have posted here 2 enemies and their attacks as well as the run cycle for the main character. I was asked to go for a more anime run cycle with him.
I would also love more time to apply some better animation techniques to all characters, but we will see what time allows!

Vlad the Impaler

So I have done work on a creature I call Vlad for the Cave in the Sky project I am working on at college. so far I have had him unwrapped, textured and then skinned and rigged.

 This is Vlad in his low poly untextured version.

Concept art of Vlad, incorporating a Narwhal, a horse and a lion fish into it. This is also the model sheet I used to create him, though I did not end up going as high Poly as I originally intended due to project requirements.
The texture here is not super detailed, he has no eyes or other facial features that are shown. I did this model mostly to be a reference for a lot of smaller models and also to create a particle effect. After creating the textures in mudbox I brought it back to 3DS max to rig and skin. The next image is a still from the rendered particle effect, showing the basic idea behind it.

So much rocks

well, I spent most of the day creating rocks and coral in mudbox and researching how to create a tree in 3Ds max, a tree that is NOT just a generic tree that comes with the program. so far all my rocks and coral are not rendered, or given a texture, I will post them up when they do have at least a texture.

Goat render

so I rendered out the skin and rig test I made for the goat, basically its just testing to see how it will react to being moved and checking it does not deform too much when moved.

 

Simple texture applied through photoshop to show basic coloring desired in final texture.

Designed after a mini goat by my good friend Ariel, turned into 3D by myself