for the Roll here's a Starfox Reference!

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Mardini18 - Rollers

This is my entry for Day 18 of Mardini 2025, with the Motion: KINEFX | ROLL theme.

Day 18 Roll

I did a little character with ears that in the end resemble little pigtails for this little girly rolling down the hill. I had fun making this character and this was my best rig yet, with it not creating weird deformations and all the bones bending in the right direction! I also am really happy with the pastel look I ended up getting, not my usual go to color palette.

All textures are from Greyscale Gorilla and I hope you are as happy as this little girly girl rolling down the hill.

Day 18 : Roll

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GSG HDRI used.

Day 18 - Roll

Day18 Roll

For today's piece, I went full alien arthropod. Built a procedural multi-limbed critter from scratch, starting with simple forms and iterating through layering shapes and details, though another two passes would be desirable for more polish...still.

The goal was to keep things loose and exploratory while still feeling biomechanical and purposeful. I rigged it up with a quick pose system with full body ik and some fk to roll up the arms with a rig wrangle and some rotatations. Used the ik to get some attitude into the stance, then put it into the stage from previous days for some basic lighting.

It’d been a while since I’ve done a fully parametric rigged critter from scratch in a single sop --- so this was a refreshing break from the workflows of the last few days, though it's tough to capture the daily theme in a single image using this approach.

Definitely some areas I’d revisit, but overall I'm happy.

see you soon,
-alan

Day18:roll

Roll

Rolly polly Erik

Front roll with Electra. Using same lighting setup that I used for my DANCE image to speed things along.

Yes re-use for roll.