Oh shit colours! Coming at ya like Cleopatra! The man Coaster, and maGrin have bin lookin this right over for the past hour or two like a map, tweaking like a maths genius tweaks the numbers, popping then all in the right place. This image is a Photoshop play around, messing with the orignial image. It’s probably well overcooked, but thats the way I like it, at least at the moment - probably going to make me sick up a bit tommorow in my mouth.

Now I need to connect these colours back into the shading tree so I can render out angles until my heart is content. Sadly, I expect about a yonk load of posts of this in different angles while I try to get the spec right. Still not convinced by the eyes yet, but they are on the right motorway.

Check out this rubs image!I’m building a lovely sponge cake filled with lovely layers ready to bake in the photoshop oven. Theres the colour layer, the final gather layer, a pinch of ambient occlusion and every magpies favourite jam filling the specular layer!! I wish it was tastier. Really i’ve made a lovely unbalanced heap of dough, not pleasing my little peepers at all, and generaly just making me sad as I realize how long it’s probably going to take me to balance all these ingedients out. At least this means it spits the right renders out! A tiny step!

Celebrate the world in colour with me! Finally, I’m working out a colour scheme for one of these characters. I really want this guy to be rendered so he seems to be in a different space to the other characters. His worlds gonna be one of colour and plastic delight! Im going for a real simple scheme, classic baby I call it, powder blue and pink. Hopefully he’s starting to look a bit like a crap Fisher Price toy.