3D Maya model project- character design

Hi GB community, 
 
Once more I need your help. 
 
I'm very interested and passionate about Maya and 3d design in general. I did some tutorials on basic modeling and animation. ( you can check some of my work here, (and my pet husky- ignore that video) ) 
I was thinking about a big, own, personal Maya project that would include you, the community, in helping me with the creative process, especially the character design.  
 
The idea is that you send me in your character design, preferably in T- pose from the front and side, you get full credit and mention for it, and I turn it into a 3D model. Later I would probably texture it, rig it, and animate and render a short video. 
This is not for commercial use, just to improve my Maya skills. 
  
For the character itself, I think a cartoonish, bipedal robotic creature would be the easiest and fastest to do, organics require more modeling and animation skill.  
 This robot from a Simply Maya animation tutorial is a pretty good example. 

Character Design Idea

Hi GB community, 
 
Once more I need your help. 
 
I'm very interested and passionate about Maya and 3d design in general. I did some tutorials on basic modeling and animation. ( you can check some of my work here, (and my pet husky- ignore that video) ) 
I was thinking about a big, own, personal Maya project that would include you, the community, in helping me with the creative process, especially the character design.  
 
The idea is that you send me in your character design, preferably in T- pose from the front and side, you get full credit and mention for it, and I turn it into a 3D model. Later I would probably texture it, rig it, and animate and render a short video. 
This is not for commercial use, just to improve my Maya skills. 
  
For the character itself, I think a cartoonish, bipedal robotic creature would be the easiest and fastest to do, organics require more modeling and animation skill.  
 This robot from a Simply Maya animation tutorial is a pretty good example. 

Character Design Idea

 Thats pretty cool, keep up the great work!

@Choi:
I'd totally want to help. But maya is expensive as shit.

That's cool...keep up the awesome stuff.

Sweet. I'm interested in helping you out.
 
Also, this definitely deserves a follow.
 
Edit: I almost forgot. Digital-Tutors have some amazing tutorials that you could check out. Also, Gnomon always has some useful stuff as well.

it's pretty good. keep the good work!

I used to model in Blender but gave up on it since it's so time consuming. This thread definetly gave me an urge to pick it up again, do you know if Maya is any better than Blender?
 
This seems like a great idea though. Sadly I don't have the time to contribute anything right now.

" do you know if Maya is any better than Blender? "

" @TheSeductiveMoose said:

" do you know if Maya is any better than Blender? "

It most certainly is. "

Sorry but... your dog is cute.

Cool beans. I love playing around in Mudbox once in a while.

" @TheSeductiveMoose: Well. I've seen your AMAZING skills in the hamburger thread, it would be great to have your contribution to my project. You and Buzzclik and other BIG pleyaz ofc. "

" For a low poly model you should be aiming for about 1000. "

Nice work, I'm doing some work in Maya right now to see if I can prep up as a 3D modeller/animator. Unfortunately I don't really have anything to give you to work with.

If you can, spread this around. I only have around 20 followers at the moment and I know there are a lot of talented artists and designers on this site. 
 
Thanks everyone!

" If you can, spread this around. I only have around 20 followers at the moment and I know there are a lot of talented artists and designers on this site.  Thanks everyone! "

That's cool, I hope the deadline isn't today or anything.

" @Choi said:

" If you can, spread this around. I only have around 20 followers at the moment and I know there are a lot of talented artists and designers on this site.  Thanks everyone! "

Done. "

I have a design, sorry I haven't picked up a pencil in months, it's the joker. I'm adding color to it, however I need more time if you want me to perfectly clean up the lines because I don't have my inking program on my new rig right now. 
 

It's looking pretty good so far.  I'm learning all of this stuff I've been using maya for a while now and also zbrush, hopefully I'll get into the industry next year.  The edgeflow looks pretty good, also it would be good if you post for uv's so we could see how you did on those.  Definitely use a lot of reference, that'll be your best friend.  For the human model your working on research human anatomy, you can find a lot on the internet.  There is so much to learn about this stuff from topology, to edgeflow, whether it's organic or hardsurface, texturing, and tons more and thats just for modeling, animating a whole other game which I'm pretty ok in.  But for now just keep on practicing looking up tutorials, look for the wireframe on others models and try to imitate them.  Try posting on sites like polycount, cgtalk, game artist, and other sites where everyone there could give you really good critiques to improve your skill.

Okay, these are my submissions, if you don't use it, well whatever.  
 

here's something i sketched up in like 10 mins, shouldnt take you that long to model.
 

Question for the OP, do you happen to know a good place for tutorials for beginners?

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@Choi:
I'd totally want to help. But maya is expensive as shit.

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I'll give you a design. If you release the model UV mapped for everyone else.

Hey everyone, 
 
Since time eternal, a rift has split us programmers and artists to different corners of the interwebs. But it is high time we stitch this rift that dost tear us apart !  
 
Well .. not really .. but I just started a thread for duders to discuss game development and programming and I see some people there who are working on real cool stuff but need some help from their friendly neighbourhood artist-men .. err .. or women. So do drop a line there to say Hi if you want .. and connect with all the code monkeys hanging out there. The link is below: 
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/game-programming-discussion-thread/456281/#11 
 
Also, I hope you don't mind if I cross post this link on that thread for developers looking for artists. Maybe some of them could drop a line in here too ..  
 
Peace ! :)

@TheSeductiveMoose:

 
@freshakiff: 

@CowMuffins:

Awesome stuff guys! .....This means I'm off the list, right^^

He isn't a robot and I haven't drawn him but Manny Calavera.


 
Tried making him myself once but only finished his head and his torso.

Hi Choi. Cool thing you got going. I'm currently under education in 3d art (2nd year), so if you need any help (or have questions) I'm ready to lend a hand. I work in 3ds, Maya and zbrush - mainly as a modeller and animator (got knowledge in rigging, light and texturing aswell). 
 
Ill follow you, and see how it all evolves :)

So I have a few orthographic views at my site, but I made them before actually having a decent understanding of what a modeler needed so they're not in a T-pose. But yeah, if you're interested in some practice, I've done a few. 
 
  
  
  
And this isn't a full ortho but maybe you can do something with it. 
   
Let me know if you end up using any of these. My email is on the site.