Some Goofy Lookin’ Kids

So the Mean Girl has her posse of guys that follow her around, right?

Well, this past weekend I went ahead and made a big first step towards designing them and figuring out what they’d look like. And I realized pretty soon that they should be stylish-looking kids, because after all; if the Mean Girl is a popular kid, then she’s only gonna want popular kids to hang with her. Sooooo, here you go.

4 Stylish Middle School Boys:

ARCHER (My favorite) (Which means it only goes down from here…)

BIL

CASSIDY (My least favorite) (It gets slightly better from here) (Maybe)

EDGAR

Now you don’t need to tell me — these kids look way too fucking old. Don’t worry, this is just a rough pass on their design. The final versions of these kids is going to look a LOT different. And while I do admittedly like the clothing some of them wear, I also know that these kids are kind of ~too~ stylish to be Middle Schoolers. Like, these kids don’t make sense. Don’t worry, I know.

Also their heads all look kind of the same, but for a reason — their heads are made from the exact same mesh as the Hero Rig head mesh, but I morphed each of them around to look different. Except I need to morph them around a little bit more to get them to truly look individual.

But anyway, yea. Designing kids is hard, yo! For future films, I definitely don’t want to ever feature kids who are younger than 15 years old. This whole “middle schooler” shit is way too difficult to capture, design-wise. AND I AIN’T A DESIGNER, YO!!! It’s not what I’m cut out to do~ But if I can knock out 4 kids in a weekend then I figure I can fix them up in just as much time…

But yea! Just thought I’d throw these images out on to the internet to embarrass myself and also keep a record of the progress I’m making with these characters. And after these kids, there’ll only be one 3D character left to model — the Hero’s Mom! And she’s an adult, so I FINALLY won’t have to worry about her looking too old! Yesssss.

More to come (as always)