Clay

Movie Poster

Come Wed- I'll have photos of the clay model I've been working on.

Render Final

I must put some time away for sleep at some point... Prehaps next week.

One of these goes to the contest...

Needs More Pirates.

I figure its about time to re-check into the Done Inn....

maybe tomorow

Soon

Run little rabbit run, for soon our two worlds will become one.







^-- Watership Downs ?

The Done Inn

Checked into the Done Inn for two days... progress came to a screeching halt. gears are turning again... no worries, no worries...

Unwrap is underway (...Frown)

Added 'ear holes' to the sides of the 'face'; behind the eyes.


Unwrap... My FAVORITE part,,, next to shaving my head with a cheese grater.... well... its not that bad,,, but you get the point. Started the unwrap tonight and got halfway through the skin portion of this model.

The attached picture shows three things,,, Mainly because I didn't want to use blogger to attach and arrange three separate pictures.... Anyways

1: (top left) Yellow shows what has been unwrapped, Black shows what isn't unwrapped (more or less )

2: (Middle) Unwrap of the 'face' (eyes shown)

3: (Bottom Left) I re-shaped the bumps on the tentacles slightly. This new more defined shape makes the unwrap process so much quicker and just as accurate. Note to self: Overlapping polygons are friends with triangles; and I've been told not to hang with that crowd.

And thats all for me tonight. Bedtime!

I need a shape like : --.
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I have a shape like : ''\
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See the difference? Worst text drawings ever, but it makes sense to me. The fix will be quick enough, then I'll be ready for unwrap. Deadline is approaching!

Brain Bubble

It was suggested to me to give the ceph-- a 'brain sack' sorta deal like an octopus, but it looks award and out of place on this thing.

Eyes, Webs, Bace, Shell

Pushed out the eyes,
Added eyeballs ( 5 seccond spheres, woo )
Webs between the tenticles
pushed the shell > the shell is no longer semetrical on both sides: its pushed so the inside curl is more to one side.

Shell work & Rough Positioning

Worked with the shell; I'm pretty sure that it will look quite decent when painted/bumped

Roughly positioned the two just for a photo: I don't want to necessarily connect the shell and body into one mesh, rather than just parent the two together. I'll have to find a way to nicely transition in between the two so it looks like one piece.

Almost kissable, is'nt it...

Suction Cups

For increased mobility and a deadly underwater grip _

Body Up

Needs Suction cups

Shell rework

Reworked the shell to make it easier to work with.

Rough Modeling

Rough is rough, and as rough, these roughs are not smooth.

I may have to re-make the shell.. we'll see how it plays out when I start playing with it.

Reference

For the Hard-core modeling challenge, I've chosen the Cephalopod creature from the movie "Mysterious Island".

Big thanks to RobertoOrtiz and Diabolos from the CGtalk forums for supplying the above reference photos.



Some reference Photos of the Cephalopod