New models reformed from the horse for now.
I am using the way as below to take note of what I have done and what is the file I named for it, and the blue ones are the normal horses.
I had really good time observing and modelling these weird creatures, feeling like the work has finally come into a period of more fun, and that I now have the right to decide and design something (although it is now still based on the 2D image).
And I found I am so fond of this flat-shading sense of sculpture they look. It does not really make sense if I say this looks more delicate than the smooth shape because it is actually rough, but maybe it is because then it feels like the artwork from a craftsman with every corner carefully cut, rather than a industrial auto-produced smoothness. I think I am going to import the sculptural shading version to my scene later, but I am not that sure since it depends on how the texture should go as well, and I don’t know if the straight faces will look bad when they are far away.
Donkey, the first one of today with smooth shading
some others with the sculptural shading.
Another interesting thing is I found a rabbit-like animal in right back of the circuit. The head is quite obvious although the body is blocked. It is so eccentrically cute but I was stuck because I did not know how I should make its body. I gave it the body of all other horse-like things. A long-leg rabbit. Then I was trying to give it a different armature animation of a rabbit, but it turned out that it was like just a giant rabbit which is obviously not how the long-leg rabbit should move. So I went back to the normal animation again. Still looks really eccentric!
The Virtual Garden of Earthly Delights 