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Meowth 3D Model

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My first fanart in a while. I'm not dead, people!
Technically this is just a showcase of the model itself, I'm still in the process of rigging it for animation and creating morph targets for animatable facial expressions and lipsyncing.
Meowth is one third of Team Rocket; the only reason to watch the Pocket Monsters anime, and one of the cutest, funniest and most lovable animated felines ever.
I've wanted to do an updated set of 3D Team Rocket models for a long time - don't ask to see the old Rocket models I made. They're that bad.
This is based 70% on the anime version of Meowth, or Nyaasu if you prefer*, 20% on Toshiro Ono's Dengeki Pikachu manga design, and a little tweaking and individual touches of my own. I want to add fur to the final version if I can work out how without making it look bizarre (believe me, I've seen plenty of crazy puff-ball Meowths trying to get this to happen), but at least for now, the model is in all aspects, completely finished.
I'm also wondering if I should give his eyes a kind of realistic pupil depth, maybe a little iris sparkle or something. What do you think?
Here's hoping I can get Musa-chan and Koji-kun (Jess and Jim) completed, rig tham all successfully, and throw together a cute little fan animation of the three. I'm still working on a ton of One Piece stuff, as well.

EDIT:~ I should also point out that this is the first 3D art I've created outside of my beloved Lightwave 5.6, I've taken the drastic departure from my idiot-proof point-and-click 3D plasticine program and delved deep into the technical wonder that is Maya. After experiencing the absolute WORST 3D software ever (AutoDesk's 3D SadoMasochism, I mean.. Studio Max), Maya is delightfully intuitive and reasonably easy to learn. Wish me luck honing my skills!

*I will never, ever accept Nyarth as a spelling of his Japanese name. It is clumsy and ugly to say, it does not even fit with Japanese phonetics, and there is NO EVIDENCE to even suggest that was the intended pronunciation, aside from a cat-like hissy lisp in which he says his name, which is also apparent in almost everything else he says. Seeing it spelled like that in fansubs irks me up the wazoo! All books, CDs, merchandise and other such Meowthy goodies I have from Japan either use his English name, Meowth, or spell it as Nyaasu in plain English letters.
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