JellyFish
 

yo all this is my current project i wonted to try somehting a bit different n have done cartony stuff in the past so i thought i would try my hand at gettin something which looks real.

so thats my reference image this is what ive started on so far only like a hour done so far, but some basic modelling just the outer shell and inner main bit, anyone got any ideas on how i could add the tenticles ive been thinkin bout modelling mall individually but that will be a serious time consumer.
I wonted to enter this for the competition but wernt allowed so i thought i may aswell do it cos it will be a lot a fun.
Tips, ideas, help are all appriciated.

Could you use paint effects for the tenticles, or hair?

this is with a glow on the inner bit, looks kinda cool, but im ot sure wether to hide the source or not, this is with the source hidden, what u guys think?

im not sure bout paint effects, i dunno how to use them,whenever i do they only paint on the grid nowere else, i could maby use the line tool and deform it?

Hi,

I wanted to do a jellyfish a couple of months ago, so I went online for some references. After doing the initial body I ran into the same problem that you are having now: how to make the tentacles?

I googled some more and came across a tutorial that explained how to do exactly that! The PDF for this tutorial can be downloaded here:

http://www.blackorb.com/3dtutorials/jellyfish.pdf

It explains how to do the tentacles and also goes on to explain how to make a small animation out of it. This tutorial was written for an earlier version of Maya, but if I recall correctly I didn't have any major issues finding what I needed.

Hope that helped...

sweet that looks really useful, im gonna give it a go 2day, how did your final renders go? wos the project fun?

dude that tut has been really helpful, ive been messin around with it for the last few hours, i never used paint effects before, but there looking pretty good, what u guys think, i mean a lot more detail still needed but id say its comin along, the tenticles need more work n im gonna add a bunch more in that are a bit more radom some which come up like in the ref pic.

hey its looking cool!
one thing though it doesnt seem to appear hollow like the ref pic.
and the ref sems to reflect as well. :)

yer i only spent a hour on the shell bit just wonted to see if icould pull off the tenticles before spendig hours on the shell onlyto find the tenticles wouldnt be possible.

anyone got any idea of whati need to do to make the dome look more 3D because it is but because ive applied a transparecy to it it goes really 2D like you see above
Thanks

yo all, this is a update of what ive done so far, by applyin a blinn instead of lambert n tweakin the eccentricity n spec roll off it now looks 3D still plenty to do but gettin there:attn:
any c&c welcome.

Thats cool.

Are the tentacles PFX as I know theres an Alias tute on something similar using them for this type of work?

Jay

yer there PFX, i used the tut Ex-vin posted a link for but any others which will hlp further wouldbe sweet, ill have a look for that alais one if it comes with maya.

jhubbard

Cool, you should find it at Alias (autodesk) site, if not I have the PDF...

Jay