Alien Pet, Marcus Schildt (3D)

[Sagadur]

Hello,

I like him(?) and I don't see the waxy look as a problem, it gives his hide a kind of leathery, tough look to me. Those tribal stripes look a bit odd as if the texture used for them was a bit too low res. Shouldn't the borders be sharper? That softer coloured line around it disturbs me a bit. But thats my personal view so don't get it wrong.

I think it's nice seeing him occupied with something (collecting these plants) even when I recognized it only after looking closer. Two questions: are those electric lines above his tail a discharge from the creature or is it a sky-phenomenon (in both cases it looks a bit out of place to me). And the second: why is he called a "pet" he seems to be intelligent and well able to care for himself ;-)...

... or maybe his owner is just a few steps ahead?

[Diabolos]

Thank you for your comments. You are correct about the outline border of the patterns, they were supposed to be glowing, but I was not able to figure out how to attach a glow map to the misss_fast skin shader node, and my friends said it also looked fine as it is.

The electrical part is actually a fence that dissapears back behind the horizon, I did not want to have the fence continue to the left of the picture, as I did not want to have the creature exactly in the corner of a fenced in boundary.

Yes, it has a higher intelligence, but as a parrot may use its foot to pick something up, or a cat use it's paw to hold down a mouse (if that paw had longer protrusions then I would think that evolution would allow the cat to eventually grasp the mouse and eat it). However your point is valid, but I would still like to think of it as a pet.

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Here is setup screen shot in case anyone was interested:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m34/diabolosgermany/alienPet_wire.jpg

[Sagadur]

Thank you for the explanations, knowing better about the fence delivers a better understanding.

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