maan! your texturing is just too much! makes me feel like just quitting on my entry! :argh:
looks really good. someday i hope to be able to something nearly as good as this 
best of luck.
Strange Behavior (Illustration) Entry: Maciej Frolow
Nomad
#64
js3d - thx 
glad you like Draco
Pearlyking - thank you
chaitanyak - thx, haha no dont quit, your bike model is awesome and Im sure your texturing will be great too 
good luck to you too :bounce:
Nomad
#65
Almost done need to texture a little the wings and make the most diffcult for me: pose the dragon correctly, sculpt some muscles and make a cool face expression.
After will come little details and final render with environement.
Peter-Eriksson
#66
Nice work and I like the way you use Modo! And thanks for your post in the forum at luxology.com
Inspirational work in your portfolio at your website! Seems like we have a lot in common as Rodney Matthews for example. Here’s a photo from my library, bought it in 1985 but I keep it safely away from my kids
Good luck and rock on, only a week left.
/peter
Nomad
#67
Thank you for your comment Yes a week left and I still not had the time to pose the creature, make the final render and paint over the lst touch-ups :banghead:
I wanted to avoid this but it looks like I have few unsleeping nights to spend on this. It will be a shame to not finish in time :shrug:
Glad you like my work …and about Rodney see the image below
Nomad
#68
Finally I posed the draco, that wasnt easy. Anyway Im now working on the details like wings transparency, maybe something more “translucent”?
Any comments & crits welcome!
Nomad
#69
Some touch-ups on the wings texture and scraches at the edges. I also made the dragon smaller but I think it have to be bigger anyway.
Nomad
#70
Well, I see that I have to model more clocks because of the scale of the dragon, I don`t want to make the clocks bigger. Meybe the reddish one…
walrus
#75
Wow, it’s really coming along! The modeling is looking really nice, especially those rock textures and the dragon. It’s a shame most of the dragon is hidden by his own wings, It also makes him really hard to read: his silhouette is just a big blob, but if you curved the neck around and raised the wings, I’m sure you could work him into a much more readible and iconic silhouette.
Right now the color you have in the background is the same value as the dragon, which also makes it hard to read, but I assume that’s not your final. What are you thinking of for back there? (Apologies if you’ve already said and I just missed it?) Are you modeling, or just painting a matte?
Better hurry… good luck!
Nomad
#76
Thank you Michael for such good feedback.
Youre perfectly right, I have to change those wings by making them much more transpaernt or by raising them. Its a diffficult part to make them belivelable :shrug: but I have to try to not kill all the dragon shape.
The background is on page 3 (post 34) a foggy distorded mountain
Fortunnelly I have just to pose correctly the wings model few more clocks and make final renders. 6 days to go, it will be just in time… as always
Nomad
#78
Smaller wings looks better and show the body. Also added SSS weins and pushed the skin color to green.
walrus
#79
It’s certainly a step in the right direction (and the new wing shader is a nice touch!) Have you considered trying to raise the wings overhead, as though he were just landing? Just an idea…
Hiun
#80
:DOne thing is for sure and it’s that your image is memorable. Your dragon is so well crafted and the expression is warm and inviting, it gives the dragon a very loving character. It makes me curious to know what is going on in his head. Like a puzzle or project he/she is excitedly working on but I the viewer has no clue of what’s happening. So I am thinking to myself “What a strange and interesting little dragon” Great piece!