Took me about 4 days to make him. I didn't work nonstop, so I probably could have made him in about a days time, but this guy is essentialy my first ever character model Not bad for a first, I guess. He's worth about 1000 polygons, since the cel shading effect doubled his polygon count. His eyebrows are also a tad expensive, since I intend to later animate him and hopefully use him as a character model. The eyebrows, and eyes, will hopefully animate when the model is completely finished The hands were made from scratch --- no primitives, just simple vertex plotting and creating the polygons.

I got the idea for him from "Resident Evil Outbreak 'Mr. Color' " characters.

Opinions/comments of all the sorts are welcome

The Cel shading was done by simply copying his entire body, re-pasting it and scaling it up very slightly . You then reverse the vertex order on the cel shaded body, so only parts of it will render at the correct angle (giving you the black-outline effect).

The cel shaded body probably won't fit, so it would be best to have as many groups as possible related to the "real body" so you don't go nuts trying to fit the cel shaded by to the real body. " SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> ("fit" meaning that cel body is just slightly bigger than the real body).

The only problem with the trick is, it doubles your polygon count, so your base model can't be to complex to begin with -- but I'm sure that with just a tad of tinkering, the cel shaded body can be cut down to size " SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> Thanks for the feedback! " SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">