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Blackheart6004

07-18-2007, 07:06 PM

There's an anime TV show that I like called Skyland with the floating rocks and graphics and all and it hit me.

Does anyone knows the best way to model rocks like these - http://www.fpsmagazine.com/uploaded_...4-722295.jpeg? (http://www.fpsmagazine.com/uploaded_images/skyland4-722295.jpeg?)

I've done using the Editable Mesh on a box in 3D Studio Max 9 and it didnt turn out so good.

Any help will be appreciated along with recommended plugins/scripts also.

Thanks in advanced.

gringer

07-22-2007, 02:01 AM

Unfortunately, as far as I know, there is no simple way to do something like that. Personally, I'd start with a box, extruding and beveling etc until I got the desired basic shape. Then I would export it as an OBJ and use z-brush to sculpt in the details.

Alternatively, you could not use z-brush, and model in the details of the rock using basic poly editing techniques and a turbo/meshsmooth.

Good luck with it.

Stefan-Morrell

07-24-2007, 04:52 AM

i'm pretty sure the large environment objects in Skyland are all camera projections,the actual models would be very low poly with all the fine detail painted & projected onto the mesh..

here's a thread with some examples from Skyland:
http://www.mattepainting.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2098

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