Portfolio: Gooey, my boy!

The Rarest of Super Smash Bros. Trophies

For my first portfolio piece for the summer I recreated a rare Nintendo Kirby character that I anthropomorphized, into 3D, Gooey, a little alien boy with a body that's practically boneless. I wanted to create a cartoon character model with an Nintendo-esque approach but I also wanted him prepared for a Super Smash Bros. universe brawling. So I referenced off a number of Nintendo texturing methods and modeling but had to consider the flexibility needed for his bendy, squash, and stretch animations to be captured just right.

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Model Rendered in Viewport 2.0

Wireframe Rendered in Viewport 2.0

Final Model Rendered in Viewport 2.0

Color Textures

Normals Textures and Specular Texture

There were new challenges to overcome despite his simple appearance and it gave me time to work in UDK to see him in-game. I would not have been able to pose him without making a skeleton for his body and cape. I used the IK spline tool for his arms and tongue and smooth binded controller joints to the curve it created.
In UDK I introduced myself to the material editor. It wanted it to read the alpha that had a falloff but it seems UDK has it's limits. I wanted to capture the Fresnel appearance that I had in Maya and I think I got close.

Final In-Game Model

I also got myself acquainted to kismet to create a turntable animation. Tutorial Here

This was definitely an educational piece and I'm glad to have gotten so much out of it.

~Bleep Bloop~