Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
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13-08-2004
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Sorry I dont usually follow these comps, but all round theres some good stuff. Only crit is stick to four sided polys and only what Mike said about structure. I think the head and body need a bit of tweaking shape wise and maybe make the front fins bigger so it swims real fast to catch its prey!!
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13-08-2004
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thanks for the crits, I have been pondering about the fins for some time, i was aiming for "claw fins", kinda like an evolutionary start to the land croc, but your right, i should aim to make them more "fin" like,
as for the muscle structure, i have had a look at loads of underwater critters, sharks and the like, and they have such slight muscle structure its hard as to which way to stray - more croc or more shark?,
i think - i may start again, i have two months...!!! (with ref's this time)
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13-08-2004
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It's hard to explain. Maybe pics would be better:
https://www.aloha.com/~lifeguards/sharkint.jpg
https://www.eryptick.net/oz2002/crocodile-020713.jpg
The spines along your model's back, for example. Right now, they just blend from one to another without any distinct shape to them.
Obviously, you're still learning, which is great, and I hope some of this has been helpful to further that.
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13-08-2004
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Most definatly, this is the first poly model i have ever done, and already i have had loads of support from the more experienced members on these forums, so i can only express gratitude to you all, and subsequently started my 7th attempt.
btw: thanks for finding those pics they do help,
And thanx again..
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nice
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picture is a bit poor, didn't upload right i think, it does look a bit better though, still a long way from being good enough though.
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Great job. I think this should be a good base to go forward on. Still got over a month! Deck it out with the details
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Thats a serious improvement!! I've been away all weekend so I didn't see ya reply and the others til now. Its nice to see someone improve overnight like that. Well done dude!! It reminds me of on of the big fish creatures from Star Wars EP1.
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