Fat Dragon, Rory Lane Lutter (3D)

[Bif]

Cool design. More unique than most of the cg dragons that pop up. Love the face!

[grundelboy]

Brilliant design.
Poor creature is too pudgy to lift off, I love it. Cheers.:beer:

[roaring23]

Thanks Guys. I'm glad you liked it. I've always had sort of an affinity for dragons. It was my number one class doodle subject.

By the Way, I recorded a timelapse of the Modeling if you're curious.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l90HmL84-P8

[grundelboy]

Ha Ha! I love it! I hope this gets plugged.
The video gets a little choppy at then end. This might just be my connection.

I'd love to see him in a walk / waddle cycle.

[Necronomiden]

i too love dragons! this one definitely has personality :cool:

[Bention]

The wings and mouth looks so small` And the dragon is not so terrible

[rohanoka]

haha ! love the way the dragons neck is positioned :scream: .. seems like the big guy is tryin to scare off the innocent people.... scary yet cartoony ....

[Poobles]

Definitily one of the better and more unique dragons I've seen. Awesome timelapse, thanks for sharing!

[Nickillus]

Hey there Rory.
Not noticed you about for a bit. Of course that could be me that's not been about much, but either way, what a great way for you to show up. Full of personality and wit. I really am going to have to give that Zbrush thing a go. It's certainly working well for you.

[Piz]

Yes, very cool Character! :thumbsup:

[roaring23]

grundelboy- yeah the video codec got strange at the end but It would have taken an hour to re-render without any certainty that it wouldn't repeat the problem so I decided to leave it. I'd like to find the time to animate it. I have such a vivid image of how he'd move, I'd like to realize it.

Octostatue- Thanks, I appreciate it.

Bention- I'll take that as a complement ;).

rohanoka- Thank you so much. Yeah, I was really satisfied with how the attitude turned out on this one.

Poobles- Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Nickillus- Hey. How's it going. Yeah, after the 2D I spent a long time learning how to make games in Flash. I made several bad games, then one good one, and then I got in completely over my head attempting to make a game that was ended up just being all-together too ambitious for one intermediate programmer to complete in a reasonable time-frame. Before I knew it the GDC was practically here, and so now I must Hurry to make some 3D pieces for my portfolio in the hopes that I'll be able to find a game job. Z-Brush is great. I tried and failed to learn it a while ago. My mistake was thinking that given my experience with other 3D apps that I'd be able to transpose that knowledge. Z-Brush is too different. This time, I watched one of the Digital Tutors videos, and I got the hang of it extremely quickly. There's an initial unintuitive leap while you learn the difference between draw and edit modes, which is essentially that you must always stay in edit mode even though it starts you off in draw mode. Then the selection and navigation hotkeys are too bizarre to expect anyone to figure out on their own. After you get past those two things it's a really intuitive program, and provides a much more satisfying ratio of artistic/technical effort while working than any other 3D application I've used.

Thanks to all for your comments -Rory-

[IvanMitkowski]

i agree with everything u said bout zbrush--- it is more artistic and totally different than every other 3d program ive seen, but worth the time figuring out because once u get passed the beginning weirdness of the program u get a very powerful feeling of control

[Blackrainbow]

Nice Dragon, the model is son funny, great work.

[sk3d]

Great character! loved the video of how you made it, any chance of a explanation or breakdown of the light rig you used. Im trying to get a decent result in max with a simple setup, so am just interested to see how you set yours up.

Thnx, great work!

:love:

[svickers]

Very nice. I really love the style of your dragon and the detail is very impressive. Great job.

[LordSharpie]

Love it. If it's fully rigged, I'd love to see it as part of complete scene.

[z3phon]

Nice design and I enjoyed the timelapse :)
great job!

[roaring23]

konjo- 100% agree.

Blackrainbow- thanks ;)

sk3d- I used a 9 lights.
1- skylight above casing shadows with 10 shadow samples.
2,3- white light above effecting specular only.
4,5- blue lights behind and to the left of the character effecting specular only.
6- blue light behind and to the left of the character effecting diffuse and specular.
7,8, warm orange lights to the front light of the character effecting specular only.
9-warm orange light to the front right of the character effecting diffuse and specular.

svickers- Thanks

z3phon- I appreciate you're remarks. I'm glad you liked the timelapse:)

Thanks everyone for your comments.

[JBSDesigns]

Nice stuff Rory!!!

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