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I will have a 4th entry. Whether it is an animation or a page of 4 or so comic panels remains to be seen. I have not started rendering animation sequences yet, but I am not within SteveK's 48 hour festival limit yet. Getting very close, though!
I am currently modeling an all important quick toon cow. Am using ruled surfaces in the vertex modeler based on a variety of dairy cows found around the web.
I load a reference image in the front/back or side drawing plane in the vertex modeler 'global' tab. I trace a few overlapping basic shapes, anticipating the need to match up vertexes during modeling. I then insert an oval perpendicular to the reference. I duplicate the piece (eg torso) and move that to the zero location. I duplicate the oval and arrange along the zeroed duplicate trunk. I like to do the trunk and two leg pieces first so I can delete half and then use duplicate with symmetry instead of doing all four legs. Then I do the head, tail, ears, etc. and attach to the trunk and legs. This results in a low poly base that has an OK side profile but sucks from other angles. I find it easier to then shape the animal from this base.
Still some work to do on the cow, but hopefully you can see that I was able to do it relatively quickly, although not near as fast nor as quality as Stezza.
After the cow, I have one insect to do, and one plant, then I can start animating and rendering.
See the red polyline outline around the torso of this reference cow in the vertex modeler orthagonal view? And the duplicated ovals lined up with the points of the polyline?
Or, I can abandon my current story idea and just render some basic movements. Will depend on real life. But I have enough assets now to enter a still, or even a page of comic panels.
Missing @Sockratease about now. Millenium Cow abunga!
gotta luv cows
my missus loves cows as well...
awesome modelling technique @Diomede .. just shows there's more than one way to skin a cat or model a cow
there should be a Carrara Cow Challenge ... how cool would that be
kinky.... funky...
all I know is the water dragons we have love it as well!
awww cute, do you catch bugs for them?
was watching telly the other night when the wife said can you hear that noise?
it was a cricket creeping across the floor and chirping!... we have a menagerie of bug farms for them from roaches to rolly polly bugs and all sorts inbetween! and every now and then one escapes! in the house although they are kept outside.
Ha! Thanks for posting. Very cute, in a bony-ridged sort of way. :)
And thank you Stezza, HW, ed3D and Bunyip for the comments.
now the final image and the raw rendering. some color grading and increased contrast in the final image. Retouching done only very mini. In the end it was a fight against time. 2 times my computer choked on saving the file so that I had to go back to the backup again and again and run everything I had done again. I hope you like the dragon.
Image 1 is final. Image 2 The rendering without retouching.
Terrific work. Love the crab ? on the rock!
Terrific work. Love the crab ? on the rock!
really enjoy seeing how you work and model Ted, thanks for sharing!
one last one from me
"The Dragon and The Little Princess"
This started out as Dragon Skin rug on the floor using Philemenon's cutout plugin, not sure what happened then
and prepost
Hope you get that 4th Entry sorted !!!
Great workflow - thanks for that !!!
Thought about Sockratease when I read your first cow comment !!!
Hmmm, a Bovine Challenge would be interesting !!!
Cute critters that you have !!!
Whoa - that's plenty of eye candy. Leads your eyes around the whole image, very nicely done !!!
Gorgeous image - the mind keeps thinking is she leading the dragon or is she about to become Dragon dinner !!!
Those dreaded 504/502 errors occasionally catch me out for double posts ....
I think a dinner :) Thanks for the kind comment, and thanks so much for running this challenge in such a professional and enthusiastic manner.
Thanks !!! Been having fun & enjoying everyone's work !
Final Reminder !!!
Shlomi get this one in ASAP !!!
DesertDude please get this one in !!!
Hope you can get this one in !!!
Diomede, countdown timer is clicking away !!!
As I post this, I believe I have 16 more hours.
Will get something in.
My current status is that I have rendered out multiple 360 backgrounds of the area with the farming village and the castle tower from different points of view. That includes vegetation before the dragon comes and then desolation after the dragon has been there a while.