Munthe Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 This is the first 3D object I've ever done. Can you give me some feedback? Anyway I could make it scarier? I'm thinking of adding some kind of jaws to it. Also I have a short clip available just to show the model in more angles. http://www.operafilm.com/video/stinger_mesh.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenH Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Oooo! Very cool! If that's your first 3d model, either AM is easier than I thought or you're a genius! Can't wait till he's textured! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacman Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 If that is tuly your first try, you make me ill. One note. Along the ridge of the back there is a very definite line. I would think this is unwanted. It is probably caused by peaked splines going through those cp's. If you smooth the splines this should go away. If you wanted it to be there, then sorry for the intrusion. Wade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooncaine Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 An idea to make it look scarier: put it in a Chor, and adjust the camera so it's looking slightly UP at the beast. Adjust the Focal Length to a small number [experiment with this]. As you adjust the focal length, watch how the image changes. You're changing the lens of your virtual camera into a wide angle lens, as wide angle as the number you're setting. A wide-angle shot looking up at it will likely make it look larger and scarier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MATrickz Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Wow that is truly amazing for a first model, great job!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted June 29, 2004 Admin Share Posted June 29, 2004 Looks good from here. Nice basic design. Please post more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xor Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Oh yeah!! I'd like to see the camera low with the scorpion snapping at the camera. Nice work, should be scary enough when you finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modernhorse Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Nice job ! First model, ack! (doug removes A:M cd from drive and tosses it against the wall). Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munthe Posted June 29, 2004 Author Share Posted June 29, 2004 Sacman; something weird happened there and I'm not sure of what. I plan to remove that ridge. The thing I'm wrestling with is how to give it hideous facial features. Scorpions "faces"(if you can call it that) isn't really that scary. Any suggestions on how to approach it? Even though I'm new to 3D I've coordinated a lot of 3D and VFX projects. I've watched a lot of models beeing made by others. I guess that helps... I've always been really impressed by A:M and I use to talk about it with the "high end" 3D companies I've worked with. They usually dismiss it as a toy and then I tell them to check out the stuff made by Raf Anzovin and that usually sends them into a kind of worried uncertainty. I do think a lot of them are not comfortable that something like "Puppet" can be animated and rendered on a piece of software that's $299. One guy told me he actually knew for a fact that Puppet was done in Maya I've tried a lot of the other brand names (to make small adjustments before rendering and stuff like that) on the market and I think all those strange tools provided by others are way too complicated and slow moving. In A:M you kind of pick up the paint brush and go - in the other apps you choose from a wide variety of complex virtual tools that in the right combination (that takes a long time to learn) allows you to pick up the brush and go. I prefer the Hash paradigm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenH Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 ....as a toy and then I tell them to check out the stuff made by Raf Anzovin and that usually sends them into a kind of worried uncertainty LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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