Cartoon Animal Basemesh and Character
I wanted to do some cartoon animals for fun since I always find it relaxing to do cute-and-simple characters, but I found myself wrestling with my other base meshes. I don't really have any good cartoon base meshes, so I decided to just work on my own.
I decided to make something round and vague, the base mesh itself is missing ears/tails/etc. so that I can make it any animal I'd like down the line.
The base mesh was made in Maya (since it lets me work with the edge loops closely) and Zbrush was used to sculpt the pig and the low poly canine.
A canine character made using the cartoon animal base mesh I created.
I wanted to make a cute cartoon animal base mesh that could be used for a lot of different types of characters. The goal was something relatively low poly with a soft look and comfortable topology for animation.
A simple canine character with clothes. The character was sculpted on top of the model in zbrush and then saved out as a low poly model.
I tossed some flat clothes on top to see how quickly I could create an outfit.
High poly pig done to see how well the same mesh used for the canine could work with other animal characters.
Some slight tweaking with an unweighted animation rig- just testing to see if the topology poses any major problems. Works fine!