jamagica Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I was creating a ship awhile ago (the "Squid ship")..I hadn't finished texturing it or touching up the actions..but check this out...it's supposed to be a spaceship acting as a squid! Squid Push Note: to view you must right click>Save target As>save or Right click>Properties>Copy full address> Paste into address bar> hit go! What I did to achieve: I watch some vids of squids/octopuses and observed the movement and timing..I then took that information and put it into simpler terms (into a cartoony look ship)...If you notice, while the tentacles are going downward you see that they have a slight bend in them for the pressure of the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazz Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 That's really neat! As you mentioned, as the tentacles go down, the water causes them to bend. However, wouldn't it bend going back out as well? Just a thought. Good work though! I could imagine little octopus people piloting it around the ocean, encountering different things... It'd make for a neat short! -Robert Lazzarini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamagica Posted December 4, 2004 Author Share Posted December 4, 2004 That's one of the things I must tweak...I just took the poses and reversed 'em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamgaylord Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 That's pretty cool! I would suggest on the return the tentacles should start bending where they join the body, keeping the ends together at first as the tentacles curl outward...sort of make a curve traveling from the inside out in a smooth motion...like the curve of a whipping motion, but slower. It should also be slower than the push motion. You probably already had that in mind. Anyway, it's a pretty darn cool idea for a ship! I like it! Might be cool to send a glowing pulse of light down each tentacle as it pushes, shooting out as a combined pulse of light at the end, or something similar. Bill Gaylord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypnomike Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Cool ship! I notice the movement in the body is similar to the real thing, is this going to be part of the propultion system also? It looks like it should be expelling through the back. Keep it up. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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