Pose Test - Kitty the Hedgehog

HOLY...ahhh, I envy you so much XD That's amazingly well done. Have you made any 3-Dimesional backrounds? That would look really good with this!
I wish you good luck with modeling, not even God knows how much you'll need it lol

I've done some basic environments with like walls and a table, and a test "Skybox" so far.

I'm also working on a 3d mockup of my dream room. which is going well.

Thanks for the support!

So you got the texturing all worked out okay?

Well, with the joints, you make subdivisions on the cylinders.

WARNING!!! EXTRAORDINARILY LONG COMMENT!!!!

Make 3 divisions. Select the edges, then press a number key. This will divide the edge into that many segments, up to 9. Select and connect vertexes until you get something like this:
____________________
| | |
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This is one joint. There will need t be 3 divisions for each joint, so if I'm making an arm, I need 9, for the shoulder, elbow, and wrist.

as for posing it, here's how I do it:

____________________
wwwwwww|zz|yy|xxxxxx
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the w's stay stationary, then you rotate the x's about half of the angle you want the limb to be at. (I can't do ASCII very well, so just try to envision it in your head and bear with me. if it's unclear, I can make a tutorial and/or send you a file demonstrating the steps) Then, move the x's into position again (since the rotation will have skewed it a little), then select both the y's and the x's and rotate the remaining amount. This gives you a nice, smooth joint with minimum distortion.

some things to look out for:
Try to make sure the length of the limb stays the same. It's easy to skew the proportions while moving the parts.

A properly bent joint will look something like this:

--
/ \/ \
/ /\ \
/ / \ \
/ / \ \


Other, more advanced programs such as Anim8or and Blender (both free, just google the names and you'll find them pretty easily) have "bones" that make posing a lot easier, but Wings is a pretty rudimentary modeler, so it doesn't support that.

If you need any more help, just say the word.

P.S. Hope the ASCII comes through all right. I don't do it that often, and I'm not sure if FAC is going to mess up the formatting.

-_-+ It killed the ASCII...

Ignore the asterisks and you'll be fine.

Illustration 1:

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******|||******
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Illustration 2:
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wwwww|z|y|xxxxx
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Illustration 3:
*****--
***/*\/*\
**/**/\**\
*/**/**\**\
/**/****\**\

Red is the subdivisions.

Hope it works this time!

AWESOME! I wish I could do that!

That's just to cool>w<

cool.

awesome nice style