This is an idea I came up a long time ago, when my modeling and animation skills weren't really good enough yet to make it real. I wanted to create a playable Ninja-Bunny race like "Usagi Yojimbo". This will be absolutely not lorefriendly and that's why I love this idea sooo much!!! :rock:

Today I made the model for the head and began animating it. I will make custom armor for the bunny, based on better beasts Khajiit body and custom weapons like katanas. Please consider this a a fun-mod, so please no lore discussions this time, I'm totally tired of this!!!

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/5200/bunny1.jpg
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4268/bunny2w.jpg


TheDaywalker :rock:

I was worried that this was going to be anime/furry-styled, but then I how realistic the rabbit's head looked and all my worries were washed away! This looks fricken hilarious!
Oh, how's progress on the Daedric Minions going btw?

Thx mate, I first have to learn making quests, before I can continue on "Daedric Minions". Modeling the different minions is no problem, I can make a bunch of those heads in one day if I need to!!!


TheDaywalker :rock:

Man, you are amazing. :thumbsup:

You mean basic quests? "journal (Quest ID) (Quest Stage)" Simple ^_^

Unless you're talking uber complicated stuff, in which case I'll shush and sit in the corner. :sadvaultboy:

But yeah, those bunny models are awesome. You gonna try a different body? It seems everyone just creates custom heads, and hardly does anything to vanilla body meshes apart from retexturing.

I can see Princess Stomper returning to play Morrowind now.

Please make a vampire version so that my dream of having a hoard of vampire bunnies comes true. Also make them really tall and make a long black suit and top hat for them. Also if there is any voice acting give them a british accent.

Heh. Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?

Did anyone else think of Frank the Bunny?

Yes, it absolutely reminds me of Donnie Darko! Funny idea, the rabbit gives me the creeps

I like it! Man you have so many WIPs to follow now TDW!

Are the ears going to be animated? It would be nice to see them move about

-Melchior Dahrk

@ RellacFTW: Yes, just simple quests for the beginning!!! I was so concentrated on practicing 3D modelling all the time, that I never really got the chance to learn dialogues and quests. But a befriended modder will give me some lessons this weekend!!!

Can't say, if I'll make a new body. Wouldn't be that big problem, but none of the existing clothing and armor would be fitting anymore and most likely there'll be a lot of clipping issues during animation. I had planed to retexture a Khajiit body and give it a new tail.

@guenthar: I won't make single playable vampire-version, but as even a bunny can be bitten by a vampire ingame, I'll have to make a vampire head anyway!!!

@Melchior: I had planned to animate the ears, but I must check how it can be synchronized with the idles. The idle for facial expression is just about 40 frames long IIRC. Enough for mouth opening and eye blinking, but I guess not enough time for a smooth movement of the ears. I also have to decide, wether I'll make the ears a part of the head itself or let it belong to the hair mesh. At the moment I vote for the first option, cause I want the bunny to wear different kinds of hats and helmets, with the ears still visible.


TheDaywalker :rock:

Haha this is hilarious! Awesome work though. I half came in here expecting to see Max from Sam and Max. I would totally play the game as Max.

Why do you wear that stupid Bosmer suit?

Here we go, first alpha version of the head animation is done. I took over the same timing like a male Khajiit head, so "talk" and "blink" animation of bunny as NPC should be fine. I will make further idles for the ears for "running", "jumping" and sneaking...

Here's a small video from inside Blender. I placed a Khajiit head next to the bunny head for comparison!!! The animation still needs some fine tweaking, but as soon as I have textured the head, I'll first go for some ingame testing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjCBFuTQG0


TheDaywalker :rock:

Hehe, that really looks like a creepy bunny right now, lol! Nice animations on the ears

Amazing! Bunnies are the best kind of animals.

Animated model with base texture, have to customize it now in photoshop. Originally I planned to make this a ninja bunny, but as I took a closer look at it in nifskope and stared into that eyes I just thought to myself:

"OMG, you guy look sooo damn stupid, sure you can handle a katana or similar??? :facepalm: Maybe I should better give him a particle emitting pipe in his mouth, dress him in a pyjama and hand him some kinda bunny-newspaper, what you think?! :rolleyes:

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8312/bunny001.jpg
http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/9398/bunny002.jpg
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/966/bunny003.jpg


TheDaywalker :rock:

That is one psychotic looking bunny. :bolt:

I'd say to grubby up the teeth and gums a bit

I think ninja-ness wold still suit the randomness of this character. Just because he is a ninja, it doesn't mean he has to be good at it!!!

I could see giving him a whole carrot with the greens dangling out instead of a pipe.

Ninja pajamas! And I'm sure a ninja would know how to turn a newspaper into a weapon of death... :toughninja:

XD one would say rabbit "Big Buck Bunny" but without hairs =D http://peach.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/its-a-trap.png http://peach.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/bbb-splash.png

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/media-gallery/index.php

Superb works of course.

Oh WOW!
I'm usually a stickler for lore compliancy, but DANG that face is so delightfuly creepy!
Bookmarked.

I have overworked the mouth region agin and lifted the teeth a bit up, so that you can't see that much of the gum as Dragon32 suggested and it does look much more decent now. !!! I will release two different versions of the head, one for use as NPC, with complete mouth animation for talking idle and a second one for the playable race itself with a smoother animation of the mouth and some sniffing movement of the nose.

I always disliked when my game character did that mouth movement like a fish. I can see no need in having that kinda animation for the player anyway!!!

EDIT:

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/196/bunnypipe01.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5153/bunnypipe02.jpg
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6215/bunnypipe03.jpg



TheDaywalker :rock: