I still prefer jeztac's over all. It just looks like how Sonic should! P.S. Never give sonic a smile for his default look. It looks retarded.
Like said before, that's just the shading in the rendering program. And I adore Jeztac's model but Ath's is more or less designed in a more athletic manner, where he fits more for parkour movement, but still fitting for classic Sonic.
ouch... Well, I finally got approved on here... Anyways, I've been informed ( and read ) that my model isn't really that good. Someone told me to see how the model would look a bit better using my ankle/wrist cuffs and shoes. I also edited the body so it looks more "pudgier" like Darkspines35 said (hopefully this one doesn't "bother the crap" out of him just by looking at it). After all, I thought that you guys wanted a classic-modern style Sonic mix... Now it just seems like this is headings towards the just plain classic style. I made everything, but: hands by Polygon Jim pupils by Jeztac I know the picture states this, but you can never be too careful.
Oh man. Oh man oh man. I'm sure some people could have a couple of gripes, but that looks bloody spot on to me. The shoes, especially. I know, weird pointing out the shoes, but I've never seen them done well in 3d with that weird curvyness to them that's shown in the old art.
So just so you all can compare them directly, here are all the Sonic models made for the Project. Personally I like athbucket's the best Dude's: Jeztac's: TwilightZoney's: Athbucket's:
I'm tied between Dude's second one and Athbucket's. Maybe because I'm so used to 3D having green eyes?
While I'd like to see it from more angles, Dude's is a pretty awesome mix of old and new. Athbucket's needs coloring before I can really comment on it.
I was actually thinking that the environment inside would vary depending on the Emerald's color- inside the green Emerald, the Special Stage is a jungle environment. Inside the red, a volcanic cavern. Now, all of these would be completely enclosed- there can be a jungle, but no sky. Or a city stretching along the inside of the emerald, with buildings shooting in all directions. Basically, recognizable but absurd environments. Obstacles could vary- the volcanic cave can have spheres of floating magma that slow you down as you pass though, the jungle vines that sling you back. This is just an idea, but it'd be a more involved SS concept with more variation based on the Special Stage, whereas in basically all of the non-CD ones, the environments are the exact same, with palette swaps. And CD just has different backdrops...
Sorry if it seemed a little harsh Ath. I love your models, and this redo looks ten times better on the body then that first one to me. I'm not part of this team. I was just saying it seemed akward on the eyes seeing the combination, which was great, but strange to me. Me alone as far as I could tell since nobody else had any kind of issue with it. I say go with what the team wants, not what I say. I was just voicing my opinion out there...subtly harsh by accident...sorry.
I worked on putting some colors on the edited model so some of you can get a brief look at how it will look textured. If this model is used, hopefully someone else will re-texture READ: Please ignore the way the belly is textured. It is a problem due to Blender subdivide-smoothing/subsurfing Not to mention that I am the worst when it comes to texturing...
That funny business about that quill that looks like that because of the perspective is going to be visible if the camera ends up far away from Sonic.
Looking snazzy there, Ath. And yes it is going for the more classic direction, but the reason why is because we're allowing a choice between two skins in-game: classic style and modern style (which will cease arguments of the "classic vs modern" crowd). Since there aren't any proper high-poly classic Sonic models out there, we need some custom made.
And here, once again, you're having much more wisdom than Sega, as such an option is extremely simple to implement, yet it can bring so much good Add also an option to choose between Robotnik and Eggman, and I'll be sold :v:
For that I'm taking concept from SA1 and having his name be Dr. Robotnik but be nicknamed Eggman by Sonic.
