Sorry, it's because of the earlier thread and McMuffn's remark:

Happy? What do you guys think of this peice of ART?

Having read the other thread, I considered this sort of rude, as if we forced McMuffn to switch to an American flag. I barely resisted posting in that thread, so I guess it was impossible here when I could also give critique. I did go a bit overboard though, I admit. Thinking back, I guess I didn't think the attempt was serious, with such a condescending message with it. (Not saying the flag's bad, just that the text around it ticked me off.)

Apologies for that, McMuffn. Getting more on-topic, I have a two little things to point out, easily fixed. The blue color surrounding the flag is different than that between the string and the flagpole. Also in my opinion you shouldn't use gray for the anti-aliasing for the stripes--instead use that light pink color. Other than that it's actually not that bad, and with time it should look very patriotic.

Yes, I know that, but the joint one can really see is the ankle joint. I guess I just didn't understand that hunk of meat very well, and assumed it was a different part of the leg. It still looks wrong to me, but you're right, that is how it would be. I suppose I... zoomorphized it.

Ooh, nice. Well, evil. Don't have anything to say about the model. Just learning Blender right now (and enjoying it) so for the moment I can only admire your poly-work and especially the UV map, but I can say something about the animation from intuition.

Judging from the bend of the elbows, it looks like it's supposed to be a walking animation, but it looks too forced. When I walk or see someone walk, generally the arms don't swing that much, and I hardly see any rotation of the chest either. If it's supposed to be running and I'm just seeing it in slo-mo, I think the elbows should be bent a lot more. The hips should also have more of a sin wave feel, rather than a sawtooth wave. I am from a region where people walk a bit more... lazily, so I may be biased. You have much more experience with modelling than I do though, and offer this only as my own observations.

The model's great though, hope my stuff turns out as well as yours.

Updated the borders to look more like Joe's (thanks redballoon) and tweaked the shading.

I also revamped my palette to be yellow highlighted and purple-shadowed, and I think it looks much better. Should I stay with it or go back to less color?



I'm pretty pleased with it so far.