Megan Bednarz

Rounded out his beak, shifted his weight slightly. This was made with three passes; using Maya software: a beauty pass, and a shadow pass, and using Mental Ray: an occlusion pass. See below for the final geometry mesh thingy. Hmmm… on the render… not sure about the white background, but that’s what Dave said to use, so I’m sticking to it.

There is some thickness along the back edge of the beak… but not along the front. Looks very sharp. This should help me refine my character model.

Well, Mental Ray didn’t like it when I tried to assign different materials to the same object, so I’m going to have to actually texture the model if I want to render with Mental Ray. This is my render with Maya Software, the same basic lighting (i.e. not 3 point, and not awesome). Suggestions? Should I go through the trouble of rendering with Mental Ray = texturing? I could possibly just do Ambient Occlusion magic on this and have it better lit. Please comment!! Please!! Don’t make me wait until class time for feedback!

I decided to make my heavy character more happy than mean. What do you think? Notice I made the head smaller and modeled the feet. I fixed his fingers where he’s holding onto the little flag. He’s still kind of barely holding it, but I think that makes it more obvious that it’s a tiny flag compared to him.

I have set the character in his pose. He still needs some refinement — he has no toes yet, and his fingers are not finished. He also needs eyes. But that’s it for now!

I did some research. Here are some source images for my character!

A political cartoon… but I don’t want my char to be that mean-looking.

Henery Hawk — from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. He’s tiny, but built in the “heavy” style.

Here’s a good musculature reference I found:

Klubba is definitely a heavy character. He is from Donkey Kong Country 2.

Here I have posed his left arm and refined the head and arms a bit more. I think I will pose his right arm to be holding a USA flag… of course he will be a bald eagle! Also, I think I shall have to make his head smaller, to be the true archetypal heavy character.

Here I have refined the beak, head and musculature a bit more. Still haven’t touched the hands or feet. I am using shiny materials and two light sources to catch any anomalies in the surface as they occur. The biceps still look a bit strange here.

Here I converted it to a sub-d model and have started refining.

You can see here the edges.

Here’s the eagle I have begun. I started with a simple sphere, 8 slices around and 6 divisions vertically. I tweaked it with a lattice to get the basic torso shape, then extruded and played with vertices a bit. I will see what the sub-d model looks like soon.