Smielodon

[That Adrian Guy]

wow! That's pretty neat!


How hard would it be to get a rendering with a different pose? Is it IK'd together?

[peXel]

V8 does a good job :applause:

[AdamT]

Very cool, but the render's a little dark.

[Per-Anders]

It's nice... but... why are there black bits between the ribs and the bones? The photoshop work needs a little tidying up. But other than that it's nice (though the material is a little strange, or strangely lit with the blue light) care to show a wireframe?

[Grey]

:eek: :beer: :thumbsup:

[peXel]

here is a cel render

http://home.arcor.de/c4d-treff/Untitled.jpg

[michaeli]

Hi,PeXel. I love this beast!
I've also visit your website, that's wonderful.
I found this pic is amazing too, can you give me some hint on how to model the bump surface of this mesh? hypernurbs with point editing? boolean? or edge extrude?

[say-g]

wat method did u use to model him ?

[Per-Anders]

The first image is great... cos it's technically quite a challenge to build a skeleton, but that second image is really wonderful because it's such a beatiful image, even though it's not technically anywhere near as complex as the Smielodon, you should post more of your work here. great stuff :). (Good mesh you've got there by the way :) )

[peXel]

hi michaeli,
hm i think i have the 3d mesh for free on my page :)
download it and look the polycount hehe
very hard wok but simlpe make lots of spline and nurbs them!

[say-g]

pexel. thats a really nice tulip youve made there! :applause:

[say-g]

do u model in c4d ? like the tulip etc.

[peXel]

uh no not like the tulip :)))))
the tulip i have done 2 years aGO; with GO.
now with xl7 or r8 you have HN. That makes a lot easier. Some bones are not HN ok, the have just a phong tag. For bones you dont have to subdivide a lot.

[say-g]

so u just pushed an pulled the points of a poly ?

[peXel]

extrude extrude bevel .. :)

[peXel]

http://home.t-online.de/home/ph007/Downloaddateien/smielodon.jpg

ok now better lighning and a better material
:buttrock:

[Per-Anders]

cool :cool: and once again, nice model :)

[say-g]

i think the specular is a bit high, just looks too glossy for bone

[peXel]

yep you are right. i will try to make this a bit better for the aniamtion. ouch difficult to animate :(
i have neve made ca yet :shame:
but we wll see :p

[neilyb]

Looks good! The bones are fine with me as most museums exhibit plaster moulded bones covered with varnish....to get that bone coloured effect!

Glad I'm not rigging it!:eek:

[say-g]

hmm i hadnt thought of that neilyb, its been years since ive been inside a museum

[peXel]

:wavey:

[kiwi]

Very nice :thumbsup:



Can you please tell us how much quicker this skeleton was to build in 8 as say opposed to 7? :)



Thanks

Stu.

[peXel]

i dont have used v8 tools. all you see you could do with v7

the vertebral cloumn is from 3dcafe

i cant' model like a 3d scanner :)

the bones are only extruded cubes with a phong tag
the head is made with HyperNURBs

so all to modell have taken 2 days (~10 h)

[kiwi]

Ah ok thanks Pexel :) .....for some reason I thought you were a beta tester as well :hmm:.....it must be a brain fart day as I dont where I got that idea from :D



Stu.

[AdamT]

I think he is on the beta team. He didn't say he wasn't--just that he didn't use any tools that aren't available in v.7.

[peXel]

i am a little boy :) and betatester :bounce:
the reasen why i did this modell not with v7: v8 ist better, and nicer! (weighted HN are used in this mech) and you can good test programs if you make something with it :)

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