Due to a chaotic evening schedule I wasn't able to get posts up the way I'd planned.
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First thing I did was plop my now "complete" Shonisaurus into his water environment.Though the ocean setting he is in is among my best, I don't claim to have created it tonight. This is all lighting and settings from my previous ocean projects. I simply stuck him into them.
Next came shading him.
This is where his current shader is sitting at. I decided to go with something different from modern whales and sharks. Though light on the bottom and dark on top I went with a middle layer.Not sure I entirely like it. Let me know your thoughts.
However due to the power of my previous ocean work he can be made to look awesome.
If I just wanted to phone it in, I could call it quits tonight. However I'm not sure I want to, as I've always wanted to do a proper tribute to Betsey Nicholls (the passed away discoverer of the giant Canadian Shonisaurus in BC).
However due to the power of my previous ocean work he can be made to look awesome.
If I just wanted to phone it in, I could call it quits tonight. However I'm not sure I want to, as I've always wanted to do a proper tribute to Betsey Nicholls (the passed away discoverer of the giant Canadian Shonisaurus in BC).So tune in tomorrow when I resume on this guy, and get into some attempts at serious detail modelling.
3 comments:
Your ocean projects are always among your best (at least that's what I think). Looking forward to seeing this one as it progresses!
I agree with you completely...
Making convincing water environments have been an obession of mine since I started seriously working in 3D. So it has had a good solid decade of work put into it. The Dinosaurs are only just starting to catch up in terms of R&D and TLC.
Congrats Craig!
those Shonisaurus pictures look really good
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