CGTalk - Frog animation WIP

BusterHymen

10-02-2008, 03:24 PM

Good morning all,

This is my first WIP thread here (other than a couple of attempts in the FX Wars section).

I am working on an idea of a short animation with a frog.

First here is a little on the modeling (the technique was stolen from Massimo Righi, who has an cool web site filled with amazing animal [and other] models).

Now I am off to start UV mapping and texturing.

Please let me know what you think.

http://www3.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/c3503da5a9d6d56d9b8d27da61b235514g.jpg (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=tkycmm12ld0&thumb=4)

http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/e7210eed7544d8dadff750dfd291c2c42g.jpg (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=yyndr3yzviy&thumb=5)

BusterHymen

10-02-2008, 07:51 PM

I finished up the modeling yesterday, and actually started trying to unwrap it for texturing. I was using Max’s standard tools and getting horrible results. While looking for something better, I downloaded the trail version of DeepUV. Despite a complete lack of decent tutorials, I ended up getting something that I could live with. Once I got the hang of it the whole process only took me a half hour or so. I recommend that you all try it out.

Anyway here is what I ended up with this morning, plus the day’s worth of texture map painting (only the diffuse map shown here). I still have a few horrible seams, but I am happy with the low amount of stretching.

I also added my reference photo.

Comments and suggestions please.

http://www3.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/baaf215b90abace928a7b7984c9dabe45g.jpg (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=iwnqyztzzyd&thumb=4)

http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/f02a55a4acac6a44945d04299eddaf1c2g.jpg (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=yza2ygyymnm&thumb=5)

Thanks

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