Tails Tails Tails <3

[Rao Dao Zao]

That lovable little fox is back.

The reference model shown in some pics is by a man named Chris Senn, who apparently worked on a Sonic game that never made it to completion; and released some of his old 3D resources from which sprites would be rendered.

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4. Could you resist that face?

5. And done!

6. WIP walk cycle?

6. I have modified his UV-map to support four different eyes. I think the angry ones need to be sharper, though.

If anybody dares ask me to make any other Sonic-related character (especially Knuckles), they will be... Ignored at best, subjected to a massive swear-fest at worst.

 

[DesKaladA]

Umm nice?
i really dont get it

 

[modler2]

that is rly good any chance i can have it for my campaign when yiour done ill give full credit.

 

[HappyTauren]

tis not for wc3

 

[modler2]

lol idk about polys never have never will my sonic model is over 2k poly

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Nice. Man, that looks a lot like Tails in Sonic R.

*Censored for harsh language bashing Sonic and everything he is involved with. Also toss in some "He doesn't belong in SSBB" comments.*

Sonic totally deserves to be in SSBB, because he's a rival company's answer to Nintendo's Mario. Similarly, I think Capcom's Megaman should have made it into SSBB.

 

[Mechanical Man]

He looks kinda sad. Make eyes more round.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

What it is is that his eyes stop at the side and then go straight down, as opposed to coming to a peak somewhere in the middle (of the eye) and then curving back down.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Just goin' with the reference, kids. And because I can't skin for shit.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I like the tail movements in the animation.

You should make him run instead of walk for a change.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

He never actually runs; he instead goes on the tips of his toes and uses his tails as a fan (like a hovercraft). That will be his walk fast animation.

Besides, I always start off with a walk sequence. Why change the habit of a lifetime?

 

[Callahan]

You improved your walk animation, still a bit robot like though.
Also it needs bigger head.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Robotic because his head doesn't move, nor his hips (though that's more due to his strange pelvic structure than my dislike of said motion; it's really not worth putting it in without giving him a properly defined body).

In fact, everything is a lot smoother in Milkshape and beyond; a 24fps GIF doesn't seem to capture him all that well.

 

[SuPa-]

Right now the two parts of the leg are disconnected and when it moves you can see the obvious hole. Here's an example of a leg pivoting around

Also, you could snap the two vertices in the back together, but that wouldn't achieve the boot effect

Anyway, +rep

 

[brad.dude03]

Alrighty:

1) The texture looks MS paint, i'm sad to say. Seriously, the texture inside the modelling program looks better than the final one. It's so flat... and boring... but that would be forgivable if:

2) Tails didn't suck and Knuckles wasn't 50 times more awesome.

3) Make Knuckles now pl0x.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

The skin is pixely in the given image, but I have no way of telling how that would turn out during gameplay, because my D drive is too full to run anything without my graphics card freaking out. And no, I don't understand how that works.

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

I really think that you should add a "helicopter" animation like in Sonic 3, where Tails would jump to high and use his ears as a helicoptor to fly down or up.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

And for spells you should make him pull out his little cannon thing that he has in Sonic Battle.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I won't ask for you to make any other Sonic model.

Just don't make Rouge. Anthropomorphic bats with huge breasts are creepy.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

If you think Rouge has large breasts, you're not very familiar with Japan and its many terrible entertainment medias.

 

[brad.dude03]

Indeed, though I both think that Rouge and Shadow were totally overdone, and only serve to make the original characters (besides Tails, since he's a pansy) look better. I mean all Shadow does is make Sonic look tough, and Rouge only serves to make Knuckles look even more badass than he was before.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

The spam here is disgraceful.

The legs are not disconnected at the knee, that's poor skinning. The part stretching out is 'inside' the lip of the boot.

Elfsilver Lord, he uses his Tails to fly, hence the name.

The texture is only four-colour or so, yes.

 

[Elenai]

I had to change my pants when I saw this model...

It is awesome.

 

[donut3.5]

OMG PLOX MAKE KNUCLKS!!!
...

I think that he should be running, not walking, and also I can't wait to see the rest of the animations!
EDIT: Saw what you said before on this, as well as the skin job.. Well, I still think the walk should be sped up a little, I never really see tails walk either..
--donut3.5--

 

[brad.dude03]

OMG PLOX MAKE KNUCLKS!!!

Total QFFT.

And I think that Tails should be running, since that's basically what he does in the majority if the games that he's featured in (besides being pwned by the sheer badassery of Knuckles), so it just fits. Tails walking would look awkward IMO.

 

[SuPa-]

donut, there's such a thing as a walk fast animation

RDZ, okay, it just seemed like a very sharp contrast

 

[brad.dude03]

Walk fast != run

Tails is bent over and moves very differently when running as compared to walking. And walking fast would just look stupid because everyone would misinterpret it as a bad attempt at a run animation for Tails.

 

[SuPa-]

brad, there's an actually animation called walk fast (just like attack, walk, decay, etc.) I don't mean that tails should just be walking quickly always -_- I was implying the walk fast animation could be the run animation

 

[brad.dude03]

D'oh >.>

I don't model or animate, remember that, and have pity

It would be a good idea though, as long as he's not walking...

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

I have modified the UV-map significantly to support different eyes depending on his mood; see first post.