April challenge Quaoar Normal
 

I'm going to get an early start on this one 'cause I dropped the ball last month and rushed in the end.... so here is a quick sketch for the gargoyle.

Looks cool!
I like your style.

Good luck, especially to get it in on time. :D

Thanks Kvaalen, here is a painting of my next model..... It's a personal project

:) i like the mood--and everything about that picture.. i am sure it will be a cool model... will you recreate the whole picture ? or yust model the house ?

I'll be doing tha' whole thing..... more houses too.

good luck, its an interesting project.... and if its not a big question...keep us updated, i am really curious :)

I like both sketches.. Good work ;)

I've just put the first model rough in the wip page for the house that is:) the gargoyle is coming next.

Hey man, cant wait to see this start to form :D. Did you draw and paint those? If so then your quite a good artist!

Well, been busy working on other personal projects this monthand time management has been lacking.... but here is the first shot of the garg in progress... I'll finish it as much as I can....strange month, what can I say?

looks great so far mate!!! really great

next update.... Thanks Kevin!:)

Final post for the day..:) Enjoy!

wow!! what a killer! great work bud.

I have only one question.....................WHere is my ROcketship Lava Lamp Render?

Thanks Digimatt!!! LoL... Johnny, I'm really trying to get it done... I know I said that it would be done last week...but.....umm.... I'll see what I can do.... but in the mean time... here are some renders of the garg...

and another...

and one more.... I noticed that his arm was warped from a bone.... I'll have to go in and fix it.....also didn't bother with anti aliasing....so ithey may look a bit sharp...

looking very-very damn good my friend ..:) , one little advice though... i know these are wip renders, but why dont you try interpolated radiosity (maybe mixed with motion blur) instead of this low quality motecarlo or backdrop only... its fast too, but you will get probably much better results...
good work

Thanks for the tip Rigley. I'll give 'em a shot....

try around 0.1-0.2 for the tolerance, and if you want a smoother result, turn on motion blur.

Dem bones.dem bones........

Here is a simplified version of the skelegons.... based on Philip's set up........I kept out alot of the smaller bones because I'm not really planning on animating him.

just a tiny bit to fuzzy (is that the word - like to much noise)?

but the models looking good mate

this is a render using the suggested parameters by Rigley...(thanks) I think it looks pretty good..... faster too....who would have thought?

Definitely better render. And really good model too :)

Thanks buco!! actually thanks to everyone for your comments!!! very encouraging.. And RiGLEY... with your suggestion you've actually solved a alot of other renders I had trouble with.... thanks again.

hey your welcome quaoar ! :) nice model.
i really like the interpolated rad. for example i have created my orange WIP Head with it.. it was really fast, and its quite nice.

ahhhh mu8ch much better!! good stuff!

Final render.
 

I didn't change the model much.... just moved a couple of bones a bit.... Mainly experimenting with HDRI's ( which I'm growing love) Now I'm guessing that this wasn't exactly what was meant with the whole "hell hound\gargoyle" thing....and to be honest the last time I was in hell I was ready to get some pictures for an HDRI...but as always I forgot my little silver ball.....now I never go anywhere without it.... So alas.... this will be the final render for this month... Good luck all!:D

Great model, looks like your getting the hold of image based lighting.

This forum is missing a thumbs up face! :D

Thanks Kvaalen!

nice work

great HDRI and model
 

The HDRI images works well with the stone texture, it gives it the gargoyle on a ruined castle with a big full moon behind it, look:)

great work
Dae:)