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LeChuck · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 7:31 pm

I have one for each character. If you like these I will upload more. Your kids will love em.

http://www.nimh.20m.com/pics/group.htm
http://www.nimh.20m.com/pics/allie.htm

For more information about these characters goto www.pawisland.com

*These are scaned coloring book images. Colorized and shaded in PhotoShop.

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Tinusch · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 7:34 pm

Good coloring, but... haven't we seen these before? And those NIMH pics too?

LeChuck · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 7:38 pm

???
I dont remeber posting these. I must be loseing it.
Sorry. Ill take em down if you like

I am so embarrassed

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Tinusch · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 7:39 pm

No no no, you don't have to take them down. They just looked familiar.

Guy · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 9:28 pm

well ive never seen these before and i do come to this forum at least 5 times a day, but anyway. i love the colouring on these a lot. the only thing i dont like about it is that the colours themselves seem to saturated.. at least to me. then again i do have a small headache, so my eyes are a bit sensitive

CapnPyro · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 9:34 pm

looks really cute, the colors remind me of stained glass

balistic · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 9:21 am

I actually did most of the lighting and character shaders for the movie trailer at pawisland.com. Allie was a pain to animate, because her head is wider than her arm span

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"What we're hearing, techno, is the process of trying to create something of the future." - J.M.

Brian "balistic" Prince
3D Artist
Eggington Productions
www.bprince.com

LeChuck · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 9:36 am

You must work at reelFX!
WOW! This is cool. I dont work for PawIsland but I have done some stuff for them through Mark Haladish. You may or may not have met him.

Small world isnt it?

balistic · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 10:30 am

I actually work at a company in Utah called Eggington Productions, but we were contracted by ReelFX to help them get the trailer out the door. Ansovin Studios also did some work on it.

The characters were modeled, animated, and rendered in Hash A:M, and composited into painted backgrounds on ReelFX's Inferno machine.

Here's a test render I did while I was texturing Butch:

Because we didn't have a lot of time to get the animation done, I really had to optimize my lighting . . . that image rendered to 1920x1080 pixels in about fifteen minutes.

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"What we're hearing, techno, is the process of trying to create something of the future." - J.M.

Brian "balistic" Prince
3D Artist
Eggington Productions
www.bprince.com

LeChuck · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 11:33 am

That looks so great!!! I havent seen the Butch Model yet.
Here is my pictuer of Butch www.nimh.20m.com/pics/butch.htm

What else you got?

***checks out Balistic's website***
Hey, I remeber that Pig Warrior. You posted that a while ago. I remeber being blown away by it the first time I saw it. You rock!

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balistic · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 1:25 pm

Here's one of Fifi. The decaled eyelashes on this version were replaced with modeled ones in the trailer.

Both Butch and Fifi were modeled by Joe Cosman, based on plaster maquettes made by Reel FX.

And thanks for the compliment!

Your coloring is nice too, though you might want to push your values a little more . . . try and hit everything from near-white to near-black.

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"What we're hearing, techno, is the process of trying to create something of the future." - J.M.

Brian "balistic" Prince
3D Artist
Eggington Productions
www.bprince.com

Tiger Eaten · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 1:42 pm

They look great LeChuck! I've never EVER gotten the hang of cute. It always ends up a bit twisted at the end. Sort of.....well, it's cute but I wouldn't want to touch it with my bare hands.

See what I mean? I envy you very much.

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ROAR! CHOMP! MUNCH! (You've been tiger eaten!)

Mozeman · member Member # Joined: 07 May 2000 Posts: 217

Hey guys!

This brings back some memories. I helped design these characters a few years ago for Paw Island. We produced a short 3 1/2 minute promo video for them about 4 years ago.

It's nice to see that they were able to do something with these characters. I always thought they had a lot of potential.

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Mozeman
Moser Brothers Animation Forum

LeChuck · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2000 4:46 pm

Hey Mozeman,
Do you know the Maxwells?

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