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# 1 01-05-2005 , 01:45 PM

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underwater sounds interesting!! and creature means organic modeling, which I like the very most.

alltho I´d very much like to call myself noob, I guess after a couple of months working with maya it´s fair to make a norm entry.

count me in! and hopefully I´ll finish whatever it´ll be. maybe I take my WIP and make a mermaid out of her. but I guess that would be illegal.

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# 2 01-05-2005 , 08:03 PM

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# 3 01-05-2005 , 08:04 PM

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deliberating....

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# 4 01-05-2005 , 08:57 PM

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maybe it´s going to be a anglerfish holding his lamp into the camera with body vanishing in the dark or something. might be a good basis for subtle lighted scene in the deep dark. but a transparent-skinned fish would be funny as well.

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or a anglerfish inside an transparent-skinned fish lightning him.

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# 5 01-05-2005 , 09:34 PM

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ok, I started boxmodeling the fish using one side ref pic. have no top view but those fishes as I found on the net have a very thin tail and a round body like a plate.

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# 6 01-05-2005 , 09:52 PM

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nice ref

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# 7 01-05-2005 , 10:08 PM

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thx
that´s it for tonight. it´s late. last update on the fish.

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# 8 01-05-2005 , 11:02 PM

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Looks great so far . . man you guys don't waste any time user added image

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# 9 02-05-2005 , 04:25 PM

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it's 2nd of may today which means outdoor swimming pools are open! 29 'C hot and whilst lying in the sun I thought about to vary the scene a little. not quite sure if I'm able to realize my idea, but I want to give the fish a cartoony style. a very old anglerfish in a rockingchair with glasses on her/his nose reading in a dusted book. the scene will be lit from the lamp on the end of the fishing rod. try to make a scetch of it now.

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I cannot draw.

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# 10 03-05-2005 , 05:22 PM

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well, the cartoon plan died. I must have been a total idiot to believe I could model something like that in maya. so I´ll just stick to the fish itself for now and see what happens.

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# 11 03-05-2005 , 11:38 PM

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Not falowing really well but what couldn't you model in maya ? The fish looks great so far. Good mouth on it.

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# 12 04-05-2005 , 09:56 AM

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read the posting befor the one with the pictures user added image

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# 13 04-05-2005 , 01:35 PM

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the shape of this monkfish changed a bit. the fish on the ref pic had too less of a "deep see appearence". there are the freakiest styles of those anglerfishes, so I decided to create one which is so darn ugly, doomed to live in the deepest dark of the sea.

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