I actually did sub. Its pretty good, though a lot of videos could not be downloaded. I thought the content of her on Diy was better actually.

Thanks very much for offers and advice. Character animation is brutally hard and my biggest concern. There is a reason you see tons of models on Turbosquid.com but very few ones that are fully rigged and animated. Luckily I've got some contacts of guys who work full-time at CG animation houses who occasionally do contract work to earn a bit of extra cash.

Basically, I want to avoid this sort of amateur-ish stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5ThzDHykg. And assemble a long-term portfolio of quality fitness animations that I can reuse again and again.

With regards to the poly count, for comparison, Half-Life 2 used models with 2500 to 5000 tris per character.

Someone on a different forum brought up the problem with Crossfit, and that is Greg Glassman being extremely defensive about his baby. So I will avoid that to start.

I think I will do Olympic Weightlifting first, snatch and clean/jerk, copying the gameplay directly from the old Summer Games series for the c64. Free web browser game, a few hundred dollars worth of art (hopefully) to commission. If I can achieve a certain level of quality and interest then I can start investing some real money into this, hopefully delivering a real game with some real muscle and strength in it.

If not, well, it was worth a shot.

What do you guys think? Do you dig a small game where you control a fit, hot, chick pressing a lot of weight over her head 

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. I'll continue to delve into this idea.

I am a full-time game programmer, and a pretty good one I would say. I am primarily focused on graphics and I've got a few million-plus selling games under my belt. I need a spare time project, something that will both raise my skills up and possibly provide some entrepreneurial opportunity down the road. I am also quite fitness obsessed.

I am thinking of creating a little 3D game, and commissioning an artist to create a really fit female character model and some athletic animations to go along with it. For simplicity, I was thinking of starting off with a free 3D webgame in the vein of the old "Summer Games" for the C64.

Events that the player would participate in would be things like:

20-rep "super" squats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNhzWMtYJcc

Crossfit's famous Fran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVBgKB4Gnsw&feature=related

or my personal favorite, Diane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szUr6-Up0Vo

Or rope climbing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dy78ZmPZy8

Slowing creating a small arsenal of animations. In the very long run, turning it into a fitness focused Sims-clone that (if it was of high-enough quality) I could offer on the App store. Where you have to turn a fattie into Ms. Olympia or an elite gymnast or something like that.

This project would also have the side benefit of honing my character animation skills to a fine point.

What do you guys think?

http://www.diana-tyuleneva.com/


Anyone a member? What did you think?

Great find.

Very cool

I remember a post by MD where she said that they were fake but still around 50 I think.

I'm not really a big fan of shemuscle, but its worth subscribing to get that one video.