Chris Griffin’s Evil Monkey

There ‘it’ is. Spade tail, curved horns, and cell shaded iris highlights. Enjoy the devilish goodness.

Here is the silhouette. I wonder what that is suppose to be…

Yup. Decided to add a tail. Working on the final render and lighting settings. later.

I fixed the Eye-highlight issue, just created another light and used the Light Linking Editor to correct that. I gave the horns a shiny black material and I’m experimenting with different shaders for the skin. This is the shiny one.

Here’s my first go at it. 3 point lighting and mental ray GI and Final Gathering. It rendered really quick and didn’t change much of the shading. I might have to check over the GI and Final Gather to make sure I did it right. As for right now, I’m pleased.

Well, trying to make some cool looking eyes. Since the eyes seem to be the key to the entire project, I figured they need to be especially interesting. I created a white, glossy sphere, extracted the ‘lens’ from the front of it and made it transparent, duplicated that ‘lens’ and flipped it to create the ‘iris’, extracted a center ‘hole’ from the iris and made it jet black.

Added some arms. For now, I’m sticking with simple, doll-like shapes for all the body parts. Details are not cute.

Here we go again. This time, full blown NURB craziness. I basically used the baby drawing in the cuteness handout we received in class as my key reference for proportions. To make the model, I basically started out with a sphere. I then add some isoparms and pull and morph the sphere into a head shape. Bulbous cranium and prominent cheek shelf; the key to a cute cartoon head. I then made a duplicate of the head and flipped it to create the body. Essentially the body is the counterweight to the head visually and physically. Taking from the Japanese version of cuteness, aka “CHIBI”, the legs are spheres stretched to a round point.