First Post! My Second School Project.
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Short story on my background:
I've always been fascinated by 3D art and how a game comes together. I was tired of my last job and decided that I really want to be in the game industry so I signed up for school. It's a small school that at first focuses you on game programming, more so than 3D art. A year and a half later with a majority of programming classes under my belt and with my feet wet in 3DS Max, here I am in my 7th week of a ZBrush class upon just completing my second project. After getting praise from my teacher and other students about it, I felt like I should get some outside perspective and maybe some advice and constructive criticism.
My project:
I actually started on this before my first project in my second week of the class due to a misunderstanding on the order of our projects. But we had to do an animal and I remember how much I loved the ankylosaurus, so I chose that as my animal. After trying to get the base right with ZSpheres I ended up going with my 4th or 5th one and this is the final outcome.
I know it's not exactly an ankylosaurus, but I imagined it to be more and thought this design wouldn't be as boring as a traditional one.
Thanks for reading.
I've always been fascinated by 3D art and how a game comes together. I was tired of my last job and decided that I really want to be in the game industry so I signed up for school. It's a small school that at first focuses you on game programming, more so than 3D art. A year and a half later with a majority of programming classes under my belt and with my feet wet in 3DS Max, here I am in my 7th week of a ZBrush class upon just completing my second project. After getting praise from my teacher and other students about it, I felt like I should get some outside perspective and maybe some advice and constructive criticism.
My project:
I actually started on this before my first project in my second week of the class due to a misunderstanding on the order of our projects. But we had to do an animal and I remember how much I loved the ankylosaurus, so I chose that as my animal. After trying to get the base right with ZSpheres I ended up going with my 4th or 5th one and this is the final outcome.
I know it's not exactly an ankylosaurus, but I imagined it to be more and thought this design wouldn't be as boring as a traditional one.
Thanks for reading.
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Keep it up!
http://www.scott-eaton.com/outgoing/3dWorld-Animal-Anatomy-Eaton.pdf
Look at page 2 for a great side view of how the front leg should look like. You need to connect the arm way higher on the body and not with such a defined shoulder like a human has.
I was looking up references and ended up going with a great dane video which had it running on youtube. I really wanted to capture the mobility of a dog; primarily a pit bull, so I chose to implement the anatomy of one. The example I used seemed to have it lean forward a lot and the shoulders seemed to have been really low to the ground.
I have definitely checked out your link and will use that as a future reference. Thanks so much for the advice!