Just for fun, in 4 hours.

[tom schuelke]

Oh i just had to do this

had a few hours to play, and as allways, no time to finish it think.
well lowpolymodelling in Max,
little bit optimising with displacement in Z-brush, Back to max and vray,
and yes i know, on his feet he will tummble like an albatross.

rendered with vray displacement. I still dont know if this little nice pet will be friendly or gentle (and in this case 20 cm, and sitting on someones shoulder )

another day and it would be finished.


with edges texture, lightmap, quasimontecarlo softsh.


this is what he looks like without displacement


now a bit displacement, and all turned on that slows down rendertime
about 1000 000 renderprimitives.

http://www.tom-schuelke.com/Dr_dp.avi
at last a very fast charachtersetup with characterstudio only for fun

[zuliban]

wow nice for 4 hours......
will you work more on him because here are some critics...
the eye is very big and eliptical, the wing need to have more bones it look it only have 2 u cant move very dynamic whit those see a chicken for example,and the feet too small also the mouth need to close whit the same shape of the upper part, i liked the animation

[jacksc02]

Nice work Tom, my only comment is on the animation, it looks like there is a bend modifier on the legs that goes wrong! have a really close look.

Very nice for 4 hours work!

Time to Z-brush it i think!

Chris Jackson
cj@arcad.co.nz
www.arcad.co.nz

[Hallock]

Very neat.

[tom schuelke]

Hi

yes i know there would still be much to change. I just had a afternoon to play.


well hes legs now are changed, so he now could land without falling down.
i am not sure what i want to do with him. He could stay in a little cage, only as big as a bird, spitting fire, when you come to much near, but at last beeing very gentle, smiling (something like fuchur), so this way he would stay a bit more childlike , and the eyes would stay big. also he would have a softer surface, not to detailled, and i would remove the sharp detials from the wings.

other way he would grow bigg and uglier, also "listig und böse ?", dont know the english words here, but would be a bad guy.

he would fligh over the city sometimes grabbing a car, his eyes would get much smaler, and many more details would come, the head would shrink a bit .

the animation was just a 30 min test with charachterstudio. i allready have killed the setup, because i want to bring this character to an end.

hmm maybe the legs rigged usualy and aproaved with absolute character tools ? , secoundary motion on some parts, sss in the wings with some blood to see. ...

ok stop writing, have to work, and maybe go one this evening

[Guest]

i totaly love him.............

youve done a great job on giving him character......it has an very original feel to it....

makes me wanna hug it..........