Skater: 3d renderings by O.D
Saturday, April 16th, 20113d modeling, character rigging, animation done under C4D. Edited by AE. Music: Brand New – Untitled (the devil and god are raging inside me, track 10).


3d modeling, character rigging, animation done under C4D. Edited by AE. Music: Brand New – Untitled (the devil and god are raging inside me, track 10).



Quoting Emmanuel Lecouturier:
My rollerblader was recently picked and displayed on rollernews website, and remind me I have never posted the finished character.
So there he is. The charater is under 8500 tris 2048 map for color, normal and specular, ready to go in a next gen game :) Rendered in XSI with simple point light.
Quoting Shuma:
Here is the highpoly of my rollerblader sculpted in Zbrush.
I used a profesionnal skater whose name is Chris Haffey as a reference.

Hi. I am starting a new character. It will be a rollerblader.
I begun rollerblading a long time ago, and even I don’t practice much lately, I still love this sport.
Very popular in the second half of 90s and early 2000s, the sport is now much more underground.
However, people who love this sport keep pushing it, despite the lack of exposure in massive media.
I want to make a little tribute to them.
So first things first , I made the skate. It’s a Remz 2007 team model.

Thanks Shockwave82.

3d animation I did a while back (like 4 or 5 years ago hehe!) of a skater doing a few tricks.
Animation is quite poor now but thought I’d youtube it anyhow. all done in Maya and comp’d together in Adobe Afx. Did want to do a more advanced version of this but didn’t get any spare time.
A few years ago I did a skating animation that was quite popular. It got a few nice comments on here and it seemed to go down well with alot of skaters.
Anyhow I decided it would be fun to return to a similar project seeing as I’ve been working as a character animator for the last couple of years, and see how I tackle a similar piece this time around. I think my animation skills are a fair bit better than the first one I did but anyhow I’ll let viewers decide :)
The piece is twice as long as the last one and i tried to do some shots where the character would go from one trick into another or make it look like it was filmed by a friend in places so there are no fancy camera motions.
The project was animated & rendered in maya and edited in Adobe Afx.
Audio track is Medicine Man by Playgroup.
Thanks Tsc (forums ; Nissan Skyline VS Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth animations availiable).

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Valo Skates : 3d render by Jose F.
Check more pictures of the 3d Valo Skates. Via Valo.


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