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# 1 03-05-2005 , 10:39 AM

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I'm going to keep it simple this time.

The Tiger shark is one of the most dangerous of all sharks. I Love the subtle striped texture on its back and the overall shape looks very cool.

I can’t wait to get started…

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# 2 03-05-2005 , 01:51 PM

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Started already!

Hi,

Side Ref image is in place and a Nurb sphere as been sculpted into shape.

See attached image to see...

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# 3 03-05-2005 , 09:50 PM

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good start. gif animations are cool spice for a thread.

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# 4 04-05-2005 , 09:09 AM

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Cheers Pony, the gif is only 21k too, which is nice.

How is your underwater horse coming on? Ha, Ha!

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# 5 04-05-2005 , 11:38 AM

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That's cool. How did you do that?

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# 6 07-05-2005 , 10:04 PM

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FireWorks (by Macromedia) is the best program to use for all web based graphics.

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# 7 02-06-2005 , 01:52 PM

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Back again. I've been busy so my last post was over 30 days ago. Buying a new house is o time consuming.

Anyway, I have started to model the fins and get the proportions correct.

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# 8 03-06-2005 , 01:14 PM

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I have played a little with the scene and placing of the main characters.

Now back to the modeling...

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# 9 09-06-2005 , 08:00 PM

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Looking good!

Nice work, keep it up!!

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# 10 09-06-2005 , 08:57 PM

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Would that top fin not be fully connected to the body? Just something that looks a little wierd.

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# 11 10-06-2005 , 10:24 AM

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Thanks guys.

alienscience: the fin is a little strange looking but that is how my ref image looked. I might connect it anyway.

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# 12 10-06-2005 , 12:29 PM

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perhaps just make the gap smaller between body and fin - more like the photo reference you gave in the first post. It looks like there is a seperation, but the unconnected fin seems to rest on the body there. Good work so far!

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