Modelling the Cat

I have been modelling over the Christmas break so that we can get the cat model starting to be rigged. I tried to stick to the cartoony, simplistic style that I modelled the rat in so that the style is consistent throughout the characters.

It does not have a mouth but this doesn't matter because none of the characters are having mouths because none of them are talking. It does not have a nose either but again this does not matter. Cats noses are more obvious so, if we do need one, Sarah will paint one in the texture - it does not need to be modelled.

A problem that I had was modelling the feet. I have a cat but I can never get near it to count its toes and fingers. It may be pretty obvious how many they have but they also have a weird pad near their foot which is not actually a toe but looks like one from above. I then started to look at pictures online, which again was confusing because some had five toes and some had four. This was because I was counting their pads because their toes are difficult to see, some types of cats have more pads than toes so to keep it simple I modelled five toes and four fingers. Lily then told me this was wrong (she has had more cats and for longer) so I took away one of the toes on the back feet.

Sarah is going to texture the cat for us using the character sheet Lily made and paint a nose on in the texture.

Here is the finished modelled cat (without texture).