DarkLimit

zacktaich - NO I model all my fishes from the ground up cuz they all move different and needs to be design differently. I have created a colour palette and I have a model sheet am working from.. So I have all the colours I will be working with, ( green, brown, orange, yellow, black ) are some of the main colours... But I will make a few ajustments.. bakerrod - WOW thanks for your feedback, This is a personal project.. it's hard to believe that my work can be inspirational but thank you.. it's hard getting ideas from your head to papper then unto the computer, but I am trying my best.... here is a small update.....

Here is aonther character I created.... he is one of those fish that sucks the dirt at the buttom of the ocean floor but he's no push over

Thanks alot Zaryin it feels good here is the final render of REV vY - LEV VY's DAD.

dmouncey - great work!! you have been busy..... All the characters has a certin flow to them, they are very simple and look funny ( good job ).. This seemed like a fun project... keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing.

Hutch - looking good buddy. I also think this feet are a little big they make him look a little of balance..... I also think his wings should be a bit bigger, they need to be big enough to surpport his body size / weight..... it's refreshing seeing this model......thanks for sharing....

Great model here JavierP - nice clean mesh, looks like a star wars character..... keep up the good work.

This ia awsome work. very nice renders...... did you use default lights setup or is it GI? keep up the good work.

this is awsome genius loci- the fur looks so cool....... Hows the render time on him?

nice he's looking wicked.... I can almost see him flying around his wings look great can I see a wireframe of it? I look forward to more...

thanks alot nixie...... Sofabutt - it's encouraging to hear you say that thanks so much..... Hutch - thanks alot... ever since I got A:M I have been testing out materials trying different things to see what I came up with... Am very pleased with the reuslts materials are giving me; plus it's infinte RES..... here is another update I added some eyelids and I had to re-model some parts of him so he would animate better.....

great work here.... Good CAM motions ;I also love when the CAM zoomed out and gave you a view of the whole field nice RES..... keep up the great work...

Thanks zaryin - Mr carter??? This is pretty much the final render of this guy; very simple. He's lev vy's dad....... am gonna start modeling my other creature. Thanks to johnartbox and Will sutton I have fixed my render problem all is well now; so my movie is moving along as planned.. stay tuned......

Ross - this is a great model.. I like his head and arms he's comimg along nicely... I look forward to more updates..... BTW - my fishes would be happy to see him underwater

He looks good so far, very alike....... I love that cartoon it's so well done....

Sub-Zero this is a cool character.... I would just tweak his mask from the side it looks a bit out of place....

I could not have explained it any better than bakerrod.... Thats what I mean..... you see a character is usaully built around a single feature.. EG: a mustache, a big nose, big eyes, big forehead <------ anyone of these can be used to give your model personality; so the viewer can tell who this character is right away or can relate to him in some way. Also a good example is johnartbox superhero we the viewer know he's a hero because of his huge upper body, his arms are huge, clothes, his pose etc..... hope this helps.....

cool character, I like the simple design..... I would just define his body a bit more, add more personality to him...

gazzamataz - thanks man, this guy will have no teeth he's the harmless type.... Ross Smith - Thanks alot for the comment on my texturing it's not my strong point but I try........ my plan is to texture my fishes with materials only!!! because I don't have photoshop to do all the fancy texturing... So the whole scene will be ALL materials. so I work in layers : 1 - I create a gradient material ranging the colours I need, I use 2 gradient depending on how complex the colours are.... 2 - then I create a bump material using A:M's dented plugin; I like this tool you can really get some cool patterns if you spend time with it.... 3 - then I create a diffuse material which consist of black and white colours, so I use like the pelin pattern, then in each of the attributes I change the falloff values to make the material look dirty or dark anything below 100 % makes the material brighter; anything above 100% makes it look dark and dirty .... 4 - then I add some specularity just by changing the values in the ( group name ) of the the fish... spec size and intensity. Thasts it... this takes a while to get looking right depending on what look your after. but I have been using this technique ever since I started using A:M so I can get results faster the more learn and explore..... thanks for the surpport guys......

Hehe thanks gubber and phil - A shotgun? you think you can shoot him before he gets to you? I think not I tweaked him some more... I think I figured out whats causing my render errors but am doing a few more test to make sure..... thanks for looking.

JohnArtbox - this car is awsome.... simple and well modeled... keep up the good work.

starving4rtist - yes I have tried that. gazzamataz - I am currently getting some help / feedback from them.. The thing is that this only happens when I tried to render so this has to be a video problem.... I tried running A:M with and without directX 9 installed same thing.... I updated my drivers but same thing... but I will keep trying until something works.... any way I continued working in ver 8.5 and here is the new creature... he's a wormfish just one of the few inhabitans living underwater..... I have a few more tweaking to do on him.... am just trying to keep things simple. I would like to know what you all think of him..

WOW thanks alot for the feedback and encouragement guys...... I don't think this is the place to disscus this but just to let you all know, because of some error in A:M 10.5 am unable to render my scenes.... I have tried everything and the problem can't seem to be fixed. As a result if I decide to resume this project it will be done in A:M 8.5... which means I have to re-model from scratch amoung other things..... Over 7 months of planning and concept arts seem to be in vain; this is very dissapointing but it's ok things happens I guess.... Thanks again to all for your help and encouragement you guys are great.

Zack - thanks for the encouragement.... but if I can't fix the tech problems then there is no use..... anyway I tweaked his mouth as you pointed out.... thanks....

zacktaich - Thanks I will darken it..... am afraid due to software technical problems I can no longer continue this project so I have cancelled it....... At least I ended up with an ok model that am pleased with.. Thanks to you and to all the other artist who helped me so much along the way..... Dark....

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