I started with a pencil and paper and started drawing Sid, using David Buckley's original versions of the character as a reference. Sid needed arms to play a guitar - they weren't on the original character, so that's probably the main difference from the original Sid.
I Then scanned and used the sketches as templates to model from. Sid's guitar is a modified version of the Strat that comes with Lightwave...

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Oh No!
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Bowled Over

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Ball Of Fire 1

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Ball Of Fire

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Ball Of Fire 2

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Burnt Sid



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Ghost 1

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Ghost 3

The animation was created using Metamation, Bones and Morph Gizmo (for hands and facial animation) which are all part of Lightwave 3D - No Plugins Added ;)
I used Metamation, both for speed of animating (by being able to animate with a low polygon cage) and for how easy it makes bones setup since you have far fewer vertices to worry about; And of course, you don't have to worry about any ugly creases, as Metamation never has any :)
I love Metamation, though MetaNURBS in layout will be even cooler. Bring on 6 Newtek! Can't wait :)

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