Creature
 

Here is a creature I've been working on for a little while. My problem is I don't know what to do with the feet and hands. Should I give him 3 toes like a dinosaur or 5 live a reptile or lion. I don't really know what to model or what reference to use since this is a fantasy creature. any ideas and comments on the creature in general would be nice, thanks.

Thoughts
 

Hey wishbone, your monster looks pretty darn cool! as for the feet...try doing a search for images of the gorgonopsid from the walking with monsters dvd-it has a similar look and feel to your beasty!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_...rs/index.shtml
The pictures in the above may be of help^^

Looking forward to seeing more of it m8!

The gorgonopsid looks great, I have started to make the front feet paw-like but I think the back feet could be longer the way they are on the gorgonopsid. Thanks for the link!

My only comment is...Looking great Wishbonekenobi

Thank you Perfecto,

Here are the paws so far, Once I get the claws on he will look less puppy-dogish,

Hehe yeah he does look like a demi dog at the moment, kinda creepy. Nice work! :)

Thanks Weyu.

does anybody know where I can get displacment maps of reptile skin? I found some good ones at RGB XYZ but they cost a lot of money. I'm trying to find any free displacment maps I can.

Well if you have a small amount of money 200-300 dollars to spare then you could buy zbrush 2 or 3 and use it to create amazing displacement maps.

Otherwise try using photoshop, just create a brush with a pattern you like and spread it around.

Good luck! :)

Here he is with the displacment map. It's pieced together from reptile skin displacments I bought from xyz RGB.

very nice Wishbonekenobi - the displacement looks great!:beer:

do you mind if we see the displacement map? - i'm curious to see how you did the scale things on top.

Heres a link
http://www.xyzrgb.com/maps/skins/index.html
You have to pay for them but if you buy all 36 maps it's real cheap, like 130 dollars. Individually they are expensive like 70 dollars a piece.

Bottom row second to the left is the one I used from the back. The site also has a few free maps that are cool including elephant skin.

Here's some color on the first UV shell. Still have some detailing to do.

I'm painting him one UV shell at a time. I want to paint the seams out in zbrush but it dosen't seem to support textures larger than 4096 x 4096 and this color map is somewhat larger.

wow very nice color textureing!

Zbrush3 supports textures of 8192x8192 AFAIK.