Your "final" version has come a long way indeed, and looks really nice... but as I mentioned in chat, the face still bears a strong resemblance to that of
Miles "Tails" Prower. I know it's a difficult thing to adjust (and it looks nice enough as-is), but a closer resemblance to the Cat o' 9 Tails would make your work more original and complete.
Jeffrey_Bones wrote:After I finish shaping out the model I will apply my custom textures that will make this guy look exactly like Cat O 9 Tails from DKC2.
Qyzbud wrote:Funnily enough, if you want to make this guy look exactly like Cat o' 9 Tails, you may need to remove two of those tails — curiously, Rare's design appears to only have seven.
Jeffrey_Bones wrote:^Qyzbud count the tails in the sprite rip ^
Well that's a good point — the sprite rip
does seem to have the full complement of
nine tails... I didn't have the game handy at the time, and I had a quick search for such a sprite sheet (a very brief one, obviously!), but didn't find that, so I only had the render and some wikis to refer to... I guess
all of these wikis could benefit from this observation.
Jeffrey_Bones wrote:You know Qyzbud I'm starting to get the impression that your not too fond of my work.
Honestly, all I was trying to do here in regards to Co9T's tail count was point out
(what I thought was) an artistic inaccuracy; if you're referring to my comment about the construction process —
That's one bizarre-looking Frankenstein job you've got there! Good luck with the shaping/texturing.
— I was genuinely wishing you good luck, as it looked like you'd given yourself a difficult task.
Also, I have said on numerous occasions that the models/animations you've put together are nice, so I hope you don't think I'm being overly negative… but at the same time, I do wonder how much of what we see is really
your work. Often it seems to me that you're basically taking credit for the work of others, which is obviously not an honourable thing to do; whenever you use a model, animation or texture ripped from a game, or created by someone else, I believe you should be giving credit to those who did the groundwork.
In my opinion, using somebody else's work/resources is fine, so long as permission
(from them) and credit
(to them) are both given.