DINOSAUR, Damir G. Martin (3D)

[taemee]

great sculpt, nice colors in that creature and compositing is awsome...

[Vlada3d]

Greata work man ;).
Svakaa cast za portfolio super je.
Keep on modeling in the free world!

[Yakalopoli]

great work! really detailed and great sculpt!

[manjang]

nice work!! great Zbrush sculpt:thumbsup:

[Slythis]

Absolutely beautiful. I really like the touch of the steam coming off the back.

[cheney1987]

wow...cool...nice image..

[JGW]

nicely done, especially the fog effect.

[kiboSVK]

perfect awesome model GR8 and perfect colours on texture. Super job :thumbsup:

[AIR]

I had hard time choosing the right color for Carnotaurus.
I was also considering adding more creatures to the image, you know, the ones you can't pick off instantly, but ended up with just few drawn flying crits in the BG.

Thx for kind comments guys.

HERE IS THE WIP I'VE PROMISED.
(I couldn't edit my first post in this thread,so the wip can be found here or in my portfolio)
http://features-temp.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/128055/128055_1201685634_large.jpg
http://features-temp.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/128055/128055_1201685745_large.jpg
http://features-temp.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/128055/128055_1201685810_large.jpg

[Myers]

Great! One of the best dino picts I have seen.

[TheRazorsEdge]

Very sweet, as usual!:thumbsup:

[ZeroMedia]

Supper. Its very fine. I want to do so, and I vish you succeses in your life.

[shady-sai]

this work is so awesome .good zbrush work & nice colour .
the arms make me laugh ..... haha... 2 small .
keep it up .

[agv]

The composition of image and model is seamless, and the beauty of this lush scene almost makes me forget how terrifying it would be to run into this beast! I give it 4 chomps.

[Baltasound]

Me likes! :)

[simoncheng]

nice detail and color mapping.

[AIR]

GreenShadedThing_wawa wewa,:) thx for such big compliment.

TheRazorsEdge_thx man.

Creabv_thank you for kind wishes.

shadyb_thx, heheheh, yeah, this guy sure has pickles.

agv__quoted "beauty of this lush scene almost makes me forget how terrifying it would be to run into this beast";
thx for such nice words man.I was under impression, when I read your comment.

Baltasound
simoncheng__thank you guys...


While this image seem to gain such positive reactions, I will post wip process later on
for all you guys that are maybe interessed in how this piece came to life.

THX

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great work!

Plugged!

-R

[InTerceptoV]

As always, great work Damir...
Are you still workin on novatv?

[snowkiwi]

Hey man, great job.

The eye looks kind of freaky from far away though. It looks like it doesn't have any eyelids. But when you get close you can see it.

Love the environment. Wish I could do stuff like that.

[AIR]

I just found out, now I'm celebrating my first Front page, bought my celagues energy bars and drinks...meaningfull thing for me.
I was admiring others for 4 years, dreaming, that one day I'l achieve something as nice, and now, I got plugged.

thx Roberto!

Hi Tony, glad to hear from you to man,, yes, Im stil here at Novatv.
How's thing going at Blur,USA CA. and how are you?

snowkiwi_thx snowkiwi.
I guess, if you work hard, and stay stubborn, youl get there surely.:)
As for the environment, I will post wip of this piece, you will laugh when you see it.

THX guys.

[LuckyBug]

Beautifull render and composition 5* from me :)

[joel3d]

ha! damir! congratulations!

[MrPositive]

I just found out, now I'm celebrating my first Front page, bought my celagues energy bars and drinks...meaningfull thing for me.
I was admiring others for 4 years, dreaming, that one day I'l achieve something as nice, and now, I got plugged.


I'm very happy for you! Hitting front page on a site of 300 thousand members is no easy task (close to impossible). As well, your dino is certainly worthy of the honor. I do think you have a Carnotaurus fetish however... :)

[turx]

beautiful model!

[3dRaven]

Bravo Damir. Congrats on hitting front page :applause:

Nice dino :D

[JackZhang]

great render. loving it. gratz

[Swizzle]

Very nicely done. Those scales must've taken forever! Did you look at references of the carnotaurus skin impressions they've found, or did you just do it all freehand?

One little crit, though:

From pictures I've seen of carnotaurus skeletons, they seem to have a fairly boxy, inflexible torso. It looks kind of awkward (at least to me) to have it bending right near the hips like that—it almost looks like it has a broken spine.

Other than that, very nice work. It's nice to see a dinosaur on here that doesn't look like it just has very wrinkled skin.

[Tilko]

Nice composition, style and color. The color put some power into this dinosaur. :bounce:

[iKAL]

Very nice enviornment and concept. Well done!:)

[Alpha-Leader]

Looks great. My only gripe is his arms are too short. I know that the dinosaurs had these stubby little arms, but in going for aesthetic I would of made them a little longer ;)

[DaddyMack]

seriously man get a life:rolleyes:

So much stunning work coming from your side of the screen... Congrats D! This one's got it all:thumbsup:

[SuperMax]

at the risk of having no life myself, id agree that the arms are too short and that its anatomically incorrect, as the front is top heavy and i dont think it would balance all that well.


Great artwork by the way. Take peoples critique of the anatomy as a compliment. They find no fault in the artistic side of things, so they then picture this animal to be real and see if it can exist in reality. Good artwork like this one makes it easier.

Again, awesome work. Love 3d dinosaurs

[aesis412]

I commented on this on zbrushcentral but this peice is just simply amazing great job man.

[AIR]

LuckyBug_thx!

Joel3D_nice to see my paleo pal,, thx, means alot, when coming from clalegue from the field :)

MrPositive_hehehehe, you got me,, I am kinda stuck to that akward looking beast, dunno why?

3dRaven_wow, hey friend, long time no see.How's maya coming along?You probably nailed it 100%

JackZhang_thx.

Swizzle_thx man,,, For the body, It could look like he is suffering a little, I think you could be right, from this angle it might look too bent, but I think from another it doesn't look that much, but I'l post different pows, so it could be more clearer.THX for good observation.

Alpha-Leader_after spending so much time thinking about this dinosaur, in past, and present, I got used to his unnaturaly short front limbs.But I see your point aswell, I've been there.

DaddyMack_my old friend Rob,, hehhehe, I admit, I've anoyed my friends lately, for not being to social.:rolleyes: THX for kind comment Robert.

Supermax_thx for critique and nice comments, I am gratefull for crit aswell.
As for the arms, I dont claim them to be perfectly accurate, because they miss fourth finger :D
but I think they are relatively correct considering the lenght/shortnes of the arms.
Check this link, http://www.dinocasts.com/images/products/Carnotaurus%20skeleton%20cast%20replica%20(2).JPG

aesis412_ hey man,, wow, thx for your time, this is enthralling for me now,honestly, and every comment is a fuel up for my project GIGANTEA, I've been working on.
I could act as if I dont care, but, as I said, getting Fpaged here at cgtalk for me is something else.


THX guys!!

[DerPixelschubser]

When I was a child, one of my favorite books was about Dinosaurs.
I loved the hand painted Illustrations within this book, especially the predators.

14 Years ago and with the help of my Father, I build a life size Raptor made of papmache. ;)

I was kind of DinosaurAddicted.I think i'm relapsing :D 5 Stars

[HappyCalaveras]

Very well done, the textures and colours are great and it really sits in the environment well for the shot. Great work, I'd love to see it in dino-animated action!

[MrPositive]

Where's our Wip Damir!? hahaha

[FabioMSilva]

terrific job:thumbsup:

[kongyun]

nice detail

[TravelGuide]

Great Stuff!! you've added nice tone of colors overall.

can you post your z-brush model (no textures)?
Thanks!

[ndat]

They weren't cold blooded they were polkilotherms and that doesn't mean that they are slow and not agile. They just had to use other stratagies besides internal heat generation to maintain their body temperature and cellular function.

Great image by the way, I love how realistic yet stylized it looks. The attention to detail on the ear looks great.

[mosconariz]

Wow, that was my favourite dinosaur when I was a child!!
(then came the movie dinosaur in which the dinosaurs speaked in good english... weird...)

Great job, congrats!

[cgpro]

nice render!

can we see some wireframes? :)

[Loukor]

Hey, awesome job on the prehistoric creature, love all the little details that you put through zbrush. Congrats

[monsitj]

good job , you done it ! mate ,
hope you can be my advisor about dinosaur project !hehe
more WIP image would be great

[iluvgfx]

Fantastic sculpt and integration.

[ilusiondigital]

Heyaaaaaaaaaaa Damir!!

You did it!!, I´m very happy and proud of you. A well deserved front page... and my vote for an award xD

All the best

Victor

[inakito]

Did u render several passes to do the final ccomp? and if u did it, would u mind showing us
the different renders?
Thanks!

[medunecer]

Cool dino model!

[AIR]

DerPixelschubser_you made me laugh,hehehe, You did a life size raptor, you my man,
I guess we kinda spent our childhood similary, I was spending all the money my parents gave me(which was not much unfortunately) on stuff for making dinosaurs and junk models.

HappyCalaveras_Im working on it, but it takes time, like everything.

FabioMSilva
kongyun__thx guys.

TravelGuide
cgpro_Im about to do that.

ndat_woow, man, you shared some serios stuff here,, thx, Id bookmark this. THX!!

mosconariz_I have few of my favourites, but this one got most attention right now.
But as Mrpositive pointed out, I think I have fetish here :D

Loukor_I put extra work to this model.I've started it from skratch 3 times if I wremember right, until I was satisfied.

monsitj_hehehe, if I could help you, I'd be more than happy, I have quite big reference folder that I gathered trough time.

iluvgfx_thx

ilusiondigital_old friend, thx man,, so nice to see you arround. thx.

inakito_after this post, Im of to update my first post to this thread.

I hope my wip will unveil some usefull things for you guys, especially ones that are starting with CG here at Cg talk.
Il share methods I used to create this piece, they are not groundbraking, but i liked the simplicity of the procedure.

The whole compositing from skratch(not counting modeling of the dinosaur) took something like 4-5 hours.

THX everyone for your interest.

[AIR]

For some reason I couldn't edit the base post of the thread, so the WIP images can be found few post's bellow my base post on the 1-st page of the thread, or in my portfoilo.

[TheRazorsEdge]

Congrats for making frontpage! It's well-deserved.:thumbsup:

[Pipoum]

Great work!!! :applause::applause::applause::applause::applause: 5*
dino na sljemenu :)

[Qual]

Fanstastic! And thanks for the small tutorial! :thumbsup:

5*


ps, I though teeths are always bigger then that from dinos?

[Blaschke]

Great picture and thanks a lot for your WIP!

5 stars!

[vasishtr]

Wow! Stunning model! Congrats :applause: But the thigh and the ferns in front look a little too dark/washed out. I liked the darker picture in your WIP better. But yeah, stunning model. Wants me to do a dino myself!

[SONIC-X]

That is a realy great piece of work dude.I love it when artists give a bit of there "how they did it".It inspiers to try more things.

Thanks for sharing!
Love your work.

Cheers,

[wreath]

It is alive!! amazing colors :thumbsup:

[MrPositive]

Freakin sick WIP as well. Can I ask what the matCap materials are and how they help the overall look. Did these come from zbrush? In other words, was the texturing and color all done in photoshop?

[M-4]

Svaka ti cast majstore, odlican sculpt. Zanimam me kolike su ti size mape i da li si imao posebne alpha brushes za scales ili si to sam skulptirao?

[AIR]

TheRazorsEdge_thx friend.

Pipoum_yes, hahahaha, it would make excellent cover for the croatian news.
"Dinosaur attack on Sljeme":)

Qualize_Hi, thx man, teeth vary, from species to species, this one could have bigger, but I liked small ones turned out,It's subjectiveness, they dont look so dangerous, yet, if you imagine the bite from such jaw, I guess they would cut flash right off, Also, Carnotaur was middle weight champ, He probably didn't hunt bigger then it's size.But theese are all guesses.

Blaschke_thx, dont mention it. If it helps understand how to get good result, it met it's purpose .

vasishtr_As I look at the image, I see now that there are few things that could have been better.Thx for input man, and if you'd like to make a Dino, Im happy I've managed to pass some of "passion" for dinosaurs to other, it's rewarding to me, thank you.


SONIC-X_thank you to for showing interest, that makes me wanna do more, I guess we are in a circle of some sort:).

wreath_thank you.

MrPositive_Hi friend.
Ok, for the matCaps, you might wanna visit: MATCAPS (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=46175&highlight=matcaps)
Also, you can try they'r search engine, to find some more info,
But in short, Matcap is feature in Zbrush that allows users to create custom based shaders built upon image.expl. if you have chess figure photo, and you want to apply exactly same material property's to your chess figure built in zbrush, you will use MaterialCapture tool on that photo to get it done.I guess I gave atleest halfway correct definition.:shrug:

So to answer your question, Half of the job was done in zbrush, that would be those 5 matcaps,that gave somewhat base color, and other, paintover, blend, texture ,final color determination, was done in photoshop.

M-4_Hvala stari. U ovom slučaju nisam koristio mape niti uw texturu, koju model inače ima, a koje su 4098 px sa 4098 px velike.
A sve ljuske i kvrge su ručni rad, Paška čipka moj prijatelju :D, sjedi i udri.
Model ima 9,500 000 poly-a.Thx za post.

Thx everybody, Im glad if liked WIP.

[M-4]

Hvala na odgovoru zemljak, rucni rad se ipak vise cijeni :thumbsup:

[Dtox]

Yes this is fantastic!

Excellent choice of colors.
Lends realism via adaptation of the organism.
The decision to flip the image was the icing on the cake.
It doesn't look right otherwise.

I too dislike the idea of these amazing creatures being cold blooded barely autonomous relics.

[Dtox]

Ok, for the matCaps, you might wanna visit: MATCAPS
Also, you can try they'r search engine, to find some more info,
But in short, Matcap is feature in Zbrush that allows users to create custom based shaders built upon image.expl. if you have chess figure photo, and you want to apply exactly same material property's to your chess figure built in zbrush, you will use MaterialCapture tool on that photo to get it done.I guess I gave atleest halfway correct definition.

So to answer your question, Half of the job was done in zbrush, that would be those 5 matcaps,that gave somewhat base color, and other, paintover, blend, texture ,final color determination, was done in photoshop.
I had no idea Zbrush had such an amazing feature like that.
Man, WTF is up with the ZB3 Mac version!?

I'm so sick of waiting for it.
I want to torture someone from Pixologic!

Then, there's every possibility that they will only release an intel version.
So then I'll have to buy a new machine.

I want to release this dino in Pixologics headquarters.

[bobzilla]

Nothing to add, really...just great! As a fellow dino fanatic, it's nice to see someone else that shares the passion.

Everyone makes fun of T. rex arms, but some of these abelisaurs had short AND inflexible arms.

Anyway, hope to see more in the future...

[Shletten]

Be damned man ;D I am working on a dinosaur but never can I compete with that, awesome job!

[TheCheshireCat]

Great scene, I especially like the texturing and lighting.
Your walkthrough was especially enlighting and helpful - I'll try using some of these great techniques in my next work, making light rays, wet skin and coloring like that.

[Au79]

Very nice work.
I really like it, although I believe you exaggerated with the scales and textures. It looks a bit like a DOOM creature and less like a Carnotaurus, and I liked dinosaurs since I was 10, so I know a bit how they look like (and I remember a lot of those extremely long names of them :)).

[DavidHughes3d]

Wow........:)!!

[AIR]

M-4_nema problema, uvjek....

Dtox_thx man,, I hear your pain " Man, WTF is up with the ZB3 Mac version!?"
"I want to release this dino in Pixologics headquarters.":D
You are mercyless.

bobzilla_Hi man,, glad to here from you, old friend.thx for kind words, Im also allways excited when I see someone takes his try on paleo art, hope to see something new from you soon.

Shletten_thx

TheCheshireCat_It's nice to hear that wip is helpfull.

Au79_I agree that everyone is entitled to have an opinion, or believes.
I'd like to believe that my Carnotaur is as half as beautyfull or realistic as the real one migth have looked.But no one knows exactly:shrug:


Thx for droping a line here, cos the front page would't be as half a pleasent expirience without your comments, dear fellow cgartist's and everyone else.

[gjpetch]

What strikes me is just how bloody good the head is, just stunning, real, detailed, beautiful. I think the background and body suffer in comparison to the greatness of that head, though they are very nice too.

[foxco]

Fantastic work, the lighting and comp work was time well spent. Good job AIR.


cf

[AIR]

WOW, Greg, man,, so glad to have it commented from you, cos I admire your work so much.
Most satysfaction I draw from the head to, and Im aware that body could have been better compared to the head. But the thing is, I have 5 species of dinosaurs, and lots of mate paint job, and animation and riging, the whole project ahead of me, so I couldn't afford my self
more time on this model.If I was going just for one dino,, it would been different.
Anyway, thx so much for commenting, means great deal when coming from person I look up to.

foxco_thank you friend.

[PavelPetrenko]

Amazing work!
I like model and material, composing are amazing to!
5*

[heman-3d]

Awesome stuff..... ***** frm me.

[efcos]

I really like this piece! it has great details and the final composition looks fantastic! the sculting also is great!!

congrats dude...

[MindTraveler]

Love the Wip breakdown, it was a good read. The Dino Sculpt is bad ass. Glad you got this guy finished and executed it so well. Cheers!

-Anwar Bey-Taylor

[hgDesign]

Fantastic work. I love the way you you composed the scene.

[z3phon]

Amazing work!

[makaron]

WOW... now we talking Dinosaur :bounce: well done... :applause:

[dreamernight]

Nice ~ Really love it ~ XD

[HapZungLam]

Gratz on the front page. It truly catches my eye on the front page as well. Its a great model and comp. You sort of having a different idea on looking at raptor than everyone else. No one has ever seen a raptor which makes it open for imagination. I love the way you go. The scales, the bumpyness, etc are truly stunning. Keep up the good work

[snowkiwi]

This is really a beautiful model. I just saw the 3D movie turn-around and closeups. Man, just gorgeous.

[ilusiondigital]

hmmmmmm... where is the award for this??

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