Fish

[The Wanderer]

Nice model man! Would be a great contender for a Animal model contest.

 

[General Frank]

A bit high on the polies, but it does look really cool.
Good job.

 

[Misha]

Feesh =P

it really has turned out nicer than mine :b

 

[MiniMage]

A bit high on the polies, but it does look really cool.
Good job.

1048 polies, the Naga Royal Guard is at 721 polies. That's still pretty much the level of an average ingame model. Models at the level of an ingame model is regarded as fairly low-poly.

 

[aeman]

non spooky fish than misha's feesh

 

[Fingolfin]

1048 polies, the Naga Royal Guard is at 721 polies. That's still pretty much the level of an average ingame model. Models at the level of an ingame model is regarded as fairly low-poly.

Yeah, but you can't really compare them, the royal guard is meant to be a massive sea monster risen from the unfathomable depths, while this is... a fish. Which is a critter. If anything, you should compare it to the skink, which has 220 polies.

That being said, i love this unit. Amazing use of ingame textres, it has a great cartoony feel to it and the eyes are just perfect. Using it as a form of oversized piranha could justify the level of detail.

 

[MiniMage]

It's tiny ingame though. I scaled it down by 50% in its animations. So if people want a larger version, they can either make some changes to the actual model or just scale it up ingame.
Whichever works best for you guys. Also, currently making a skeletal fish version of this, the polies on that will probably be more than this one.

Rather than a critter, this is a creep. It has attack animations. But yes, I get your point.

 

[Fingolfin]

I think that the standards of what is a reasonable poly count have increased since this game was released, so it is fair to increase the resolution a bit as long as the model fits with those already ingame. And as long as it's not wasteful.

 

[RanchBurner]

Almost looks like that one from Ice Climbers.

 

[Emm-A-]

woot brilliant fishees flooding the hive! There is too much spray around this one in game if you ask me. Otherwise, this is really good!

 

[Kyrbi0]

(Dang, a Challenge? We don't have enough of those; it's a shame you guys didn't take a few more steps & make it official; would've been cool to populate the Challenge Forum. : P)

I'm gonna say, I really like this model (perhaps better than Misha's); his was more creative, but yours fits more in-game (textures & such) & is just really 'basic', the good kind. I kinda feel like the fin texture clashes with the shark-skin (Sea Giant?) texture, but aside from that, it's great.

That is, aside from the polies. I never look at polies; usually don't even notice them until someone points them out. However, if we're talking polies & justifying ourselves, I just have to say that comparing this dude to the Naga Royal Guard is... ill-advised. 1048 polies to make a (admittedly cool) dinky little fish Critter Creep, compared to only 721 for a massive "T3-esque" warrior melee snake-man for the Naga race... That's a 45% increase in polies, for what amounts to a tenth of the size & a fifth of the animations... Ah dannae, just seems incredibly profligate.

 

[Misha]

I'm gonna say, I really like this model (perhaps better than Misha's); his was more creative, but yours fits more in-game (textures & such) & is just really 'basic', the good kind. I kinda feel like the fin texture clashes with the shark-skin (Sea Giant?) texture, but aside from that, it's great.

I need to try having another go at wrapping my feesh with ingame textures.. I just can't find the one that looks good

 

[Roland]

Now, That's a fish.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

MiniMage won because his fish has an attack animation and can thus be used for more purposes.
I very much like that attack animation.

 

[Hantoo]

I could Help you tweak the death animation If you want just sayin, looks a lil jerky in the viewer

 

[MiniMage]

Looks fine ingame. Check it out.

 

[Hantoo]

Looks fine ingame. Check it out.

If it's Ok then cool

 

[MiniMage]

If it's Ok then cool

It falls over, then sinks. It's very cartoony.

 

[SNIper of DARKness]

Reminds me of the Piranha from Insaniquarium.
Mostly because it's a piranha.

 

[Aleister]

Excellent combination of in-game textures man.

 

[Archian]

I like it May I suggest you add a Walk Fast animation?

 

[MiniMage]

I like it May I suggest you add a Walk Fast animation?

I made the animations based on Lobstrokk animations, I have no idea how I would animate a fast walk animation.

 

[Kazeon]

Will you guys make more fish models? I'm pretty sure I will use all of these one day.

 

[MiniMage]

Any particular fish you want us to create?

 

[Kyrbi0]

A troll building fish, with Troll building materials & forms & animations... Ok just a Troll building. But you can call it a fish. : D

 

[Kazeon]

Any particular fish you want us to create?

Maybe fishes that are similar (in shape and size) to this one and cutefeesh. And some shape (species) variations will be awesome too.

 

[Grey Knight]

hooo scary

 

[Fingolfin]

A bit high poly, but it looks great.

 

[Solu9]

Nice "little" model you got here.
The death animation caught my attention. Won't a fish normally turn its belly up when it's dead? I think it will. So a slight altering of the death animation would be nice.

 

[deepstrasz]

4/5.
Portrait?

 

[Heinvers]

Could use something like -Stand 3. Think about jumping out of the water and biting sometimes. Cool model nevertheless MiniMage.

 

[Rence Kristoff]

The use of the Naga Siren parts were Excellent.

 

[kirbyfish]

^my fav. fish ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ) noice