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Old 02-08-2004, 12:38 AM   #1
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ok i plan on learning as much as a can on basic textures so i am going to do ( if allowed ) to do 2 dinos 1 big one and 3 little ones attacking it and low poly to.

concepts to come soon

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Old 02-08-2004, 03:11 AM   #2
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I'm drinking a beer to you Sharp, as obvioulsy I have to catch up. Good luck with the competition.
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Old 02-08-2004, 11:46 PM   #3
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ok i have made some concepts but i did them in pencil so i altared to best i could and i will do some in pen tomorrow before i get to modeling

this 1 is the t rex style it will have red skin with brown / green tiger like strips.

i aim for around 3000 polys for it as i am doing game poly and it would be able to have that many for its size
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Old 02-08-2004, 11:48 PM   #4
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and the small 1 this 1 i aim to go for about 2000 polys as its smaller then the big dino

ps they might look a little bit off because i had to use paint to resize them no photoshop on this comp ill use ps tomoz so you can see better
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Old 03-08-2004, 03:13 PM   #5
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ok heres the small one with colouring added in photoshop
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Old 03-08-2004, 04:31 PM   #6
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basic shape done

p.s altho my concept dont look it i wasted a modified raptor so in 3d i got it looking a bit like a raptor

380 quads atm 760 when tried of corse, looking for 2000 tris so can get some detail in mouth and hand an feet yet
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Old 03-08-2004, 05:48 PM   #7
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tidyed up the points abit to give more of a smooth look more work to be done there.

added the arms.
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Old 03-08-2004, 06:28 PM   #8
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I would maybe add a bit more musculature to the top part of the arms, but other than that, its a nice start.
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Old 03-08-2004, 06:37 PM   #9
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i tryed to do that but it made the smoothing go strange ill try again later if i have poly lefts to get at it but atm i am going to leave it as it is until later on currently at 1400 polys and still got inside mouth spikes on back and the hands i might just do some stuff with 2 or 4 polys and do it with textures and alpha
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Old 03-08-2004, 06:49 PM   #10
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i give it another couple of trys

does this look ok?
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Old 03-08-2004, 07:07 PM   #11
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maybe bring them a little higher they seem a bit too low unless its just the angle of the screen shot
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Old 03-08-2004, 07:43 PM   #12
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yea they where but i carnt fix the mesh to be smooth again ill try again later but perhaps it will look ok when it has textures on
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Old 03-08-2004, 10:15 PM   #13
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well heres todays work gona call it a day
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Old 04-08-2004, 04:27 PM   #14
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so far so good sharp! See if u can modify the snout or the top skull part a tiny little wee bit.
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Old 05-08-2004, 01:19 AM   #15
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iv tryed to edit parts of it..

rescued some polygons so i can do some detail with the teeth and back spikes i dicided to use them as alphas as a different layer will do them later after i done the body..

iv set out all te body parts now ready to b uv'd and manipulated to look right i never done uv's so i hope im doing this right heres a view of them in perpective.
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