Hi my name is Cédric BABOUCHE. I'm not a professionnal modeler but as i am usually art director on animation productions, i've prefered to say "PRO" even if i have an amateur level in modeling.
Let me introduce you to the little night maker. I think that you already know the dreamcatcher. But who is in charge in our world to make us dream or having nightmares?
In fact the little night makers are every where but we can't see them. Each human as his own night maker. And every night when we fell asleep, our little buddy comes close from our pillow and gives us a head massage with all his little hands. With this massage, he sends us vibrations that will make us dream or having nightmares. It depends of the mask he will use. Each one contains different kind of dreams or nightmares...
They are able to go everywhere they want. They walk both with their hands and legs... As they are always upside down, we never know?!! You can also see little lights on the top of his body. Because even if they live in the night, they can also be afraid of... nightmares

I'll work with xsi for the low poly and Zbrush for the final sculpt. Hope you will like the little buddy

Hi YONA,great to see you here!
Fantastic sketch and the background story is SOO creative-amazing-beautiful!
All the best in this competition.
I´m still ill and I sleep almost the whole day.Hope to enter soon.

Great story and concept sketch. Good luck.

Hey Cédric. Welcome to cgCoach!

It's really cool to see another totally original design idea for this competition. The sketch looks wicked. The only thing that is worrying me is the thickness of the arms/legs. They will be quite brittle if printed. It doesn't mean you can't do them, just keep it in mind and see if you can thicken them up slightly without ruining the original design.

Once you've got a bit of a base mesh happening I'll get the guys from Moddler.com to check it out and offer any advice.

Good luck.

cheers
Andrew

Great story, great concept. This is gonna be really really cool.

very cool, so much stuff to have fun with in your concept.

thank you all for the support!!
Andrew i totally agree with you. I'll probably have to thicken up the legs, arms and staffs... I think that if all these elements are to thick i'll have some troubles sculpting them on ZB anyway .
I'll try to thicken them up a bit but not to much because i thought it was funny to see this guy up with all these thicks legs...just as if they were about to broke.
thanks for the advice!!

Very original idea. Love the sketch and be very interested in the progress of the 3D model, speaking as a rookie 3D modeler myself!
Best of luck

Yeah Yona !
The sketch and its design are great !
The legs and arms worry me a bit too...
I hope you will find a clue to do it.
Anyway, even if you won't do this one for this contest, I just hope you will do it !

Hey Cédric !

Really cool and fun concept.
I'm curious to see how it would look with more solid legs, hope it wont make it less funny
Cheers!

Thank you guys!
Domingos : well, i hope i'll be able to make a cool model. I think that i'm going to model it as a a big puzzle..each part alone (faces, legs, arms, mouths, eyes, etc...) and make them one piece at the end.
gpepper : Thank you! i'm going to thicken up as much as i can and we'll see ... i have to make a low poly and ask to Moddler what they think about it.
andrei.szasz : thank you! even with bigger legs i'll do my best!!!

today, i'm going to draw the masks, in order to see how many pieces i'll need for each part... i think that if i sculpt differents mouthes, eyes, noses, i'll have a large catalog of expressions...than i'll tweak them one by one in ZB to make each mask unique...

i cross my fingers

again thanks for your suport

Here's a new udpate.
This step is important for me as i don't have espacially a lot of time to spend on this contest. So i have to find a clever way to work on it on time without loosing the pleasure of modeling and sculpting.
the NIGHT MAKER looks like a big puzzle of masks, expressions, hands etc... so i've prepared all i need for the basic form of my little budy.
I'll prepare a 1st version of him than i'll use more lattices to make each mask singular..i'll be able to turn all the eyes, mouthes etc...so i'll be able to have a wide range of expressions with not so much modeling.
Than i'll add more details and probably very singular masks.
I'll use the same mesh both for arms and legs and 3 kinds of lights that i'll modifiy if i need more ....

Well let's start the modeling!!

C&C are welcome