BlameThePixel!

It looks like the worms you have in your avatar, which looks good (only in 3D of course).

kinda what i was goin for.

here's a further along version. includes many (but not all) suggestions I've received so far.

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i think it's a pretty good attempt. you could always keep working on it, smoothing it out and tweeking it, or you could just call it Grandpa Worm.

Evil Pixel showed me a good 3D editing website. I lost the link though since someone erased all of the old PMs..
All pixels know how to make 3D objects.

yes i agree, thats an excelent attempt but you need to smoothen it out

I said updated, not completed :p

I KNOW I need to smooth it out quite a bit, I was looking for other forms of advice about ti, beyond smoothing.

Heh, you gonna try making it look exactlly like him?
With the headband and everything? That would look cool.

Looking very impresisve so far btw.

yes I will be making it look like my sigworm at some point, but first I gotta refine the initial shape of the worm.

I'll also open a thread in Team17 about my art, where I'll be doing various sigworms from there, as well.

another update, this is nearing the final version of it. I think I'm gunna need to get Kjatte or Dim from the T17 forums to help me smooth out the lips, but other than that I'm just about done. I may smooth the part where the tail comes to meet the body, as it's uneven, but it doesn't look wrong or bad or anything, so I may just leave it as it is.

anyway, here's an ALMOST finished version:

Wow! Looking good Aku.
Is it me or the head really big?

It's all you; worm heads have always been disproportionately huge.

exactly. the worm likely isn't much bigger than the W4M worms

this bottom lip may well be a lot more of a hassle than I figured. it seems that one of the 2 people I know with Maya is just as stuck as I am with the bottom lip. he can't think of any way to smooth out that bottom lip without making it completely unworkable (if that's even a word).

if I can't manage to smooth the lower lip well enough, I may end up having to just make a worm model with no emotions. it would be almost impossible to move that mouth to be expressive at all if I do what it looks like I may end up having to do (which is adding something like 3 rows of vertices to the existing 3 that are on the lower lip).

hopfully I can get around it, but I'm not really seeing how, at this point.

Use a mesh-smooth, although that might go by a different name but I know in 3DS Max it's in the modify tab.