Oh, character concepts. I suck at those. Oh well. Maybe.

Might be helpful:

http://www.newtek.com/products/light...ino/index.html

Also very helpful if you need to learn to model animals!

http://creativedigital.bizhosting.co...orialsPage.htm

yeah this is what i thought...but glad i may join the challenge again :)
seems to be a kick-ass challenge this 2 months!!!
good luck everyone!!

--btw...sorry S2-speedy, i put this message also in your challenge topic. hope the moderator will delete that post--

I also remember reading sumthing like that...

no worries bullet, they took it out now :D

that link was much helpful colto. cheers .

:) that first dinosaur was one of the first things i learned to model

yea me to altho when i fished it looked more like a bird lol

if we created the bonus scene, would that count toward the judging etc.? Or...?

It'll help, but quality is the main thing that is considered. And the creature must be complete if an environment is present. If the dino's quality was sacrificed for making an environment, it won't help.

Ive come up with a slight problem. I don't have photo shop... :( ....
will this disqualify me? I have paint ( which is just so lame) I notice my textures don't compare so should I drop out? or continue with what I can show?

Don't drop out of the race just because you lack some applications. You don't need Photoshop to create your textures, after all, the applications we use are simply tools. If you're stuck using MS Paint though, I'd look for another painting package. Try taking a look at the free version of Project Dogwaffle for instance:

http://www.squirreldome.com/cyberop.htm

yeah, plenty of free programs out there. Might not be quite as robust as PS, but should be better than MS paint. :)

Thx Mark Dogwaffle is much better then paint. I only got one question does it have layers? I tried the help file it was bad ( Guess ill have to try every button =) ill post some tests. thanks again.

Would Gimp be an option for you, Krull?

http://www.gimp.org/