Low Poly Maru

Wonderful homage by Ted Martens for Maru the Cat (as mentioned today, the famous internet cat has a new book out). The artists explains, "I’m trying to get more 3D work in my portfolio. Here’s a low poly scene of Maru the cat playing with boxes. (just a mockup – not a game). 436 triangles, 3 textures @ 128×128 each."

Link to the series: Low Poly Maru (thanks, Andrew Woolridge!)

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hey, that’s the miffy box from “many small boxes and maru!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XID_W4neJo

(perhaps i watch too many cute animal videos, but i consider it therapeutic.)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XN2SJDMODQVUVHUWGJSLWQRR2I Denise *

Why not a game? We want a game!
Teirhan

Aw, those are some adorable models.

Reminds me of quite a few japanese PSX games. Especially in early PSX games you had some amazing texture work in the games to help disguise and mitigate the problematic low-poly models. this lasted for quite some time. Games like Megaman Legend (Rockman Dash) 1/2 or the later BoF games… I think it was IV that was the first released on PSX, these are in my opinion some of the most beautiful examples of texturework i’ve seen in a video game.
Lobster

If that cat doesn’t watch out he’s going to get picked up by a Katamari.