Velociraptor for UDK

Odd3sy

Wanted some ZBrush practice so thought I'd have a go at creating a dinosaur. I've only ever sculpted 2 organic things in the past and I want to improve my skills!

Started with a base mesh in max, I messed up the arms at first but went back and fixed them, didnt realise the raptors seem to have quite defined shoulders



Fixed Arms



Sculpt



















Not overly happy with the hands and feet but nevermind...

Retop

Odd3sy

I polypainted it instead of painting it in photoshop, unwrapped it then projected the texture maps in Xnormal



Low Poly Textured, These are rendered in max, for some reason the black is really emphasized, looks almost borderlands style, seems to look better in engine









I've rigged him with CAT and made some basic animations to take into UDK

Odd3sy

Walk Cycle in UDK

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhF6rS3-GRw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhF6rS3-GRw[/ame]

Idle Animation

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB26F4S_ufU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB26F4S_ufU[/ame]

Odd3sy

Playing around trying to get a nice pose in UDK

Odd3sy

CandyStripes05

no crits on this? really people???? lol

Sick sculpt, but somewhere along the way you lost a lot of your detail once you started to texture. Can you post flats or your normal, spec, and diffuse please?

Also in your idle animation the teeth go through the bottom lip. For the pose you picked, I would go for a more dramatic attack pose instead of a more idle pose. If you do a more dramatic one it also shows people you rigged it without them needing to read about it or see a video (for the most part)

[SF]Three9

Normally i am skeptical about dinosaur posts, but this is a really well done raptor; grats


The wrinkles on his hip are kinda weird...looks flabby like he lost a ton of weight and used to be huge

StuButler

Your walk cycle has too much of the CATMotion flamboyance about it still. Try and mute out some of the wigglyness (<-- not a real word), look at examples from TV series or games.

mecons

I think the only problem is with te proportions of the front view, the velociraptor should be much more thin, the walking animation is a bit rigid, but cat motion is cat motion! Anyway good job!

ps: this is my dinosaur, please guys give me some feedback for the assignment! :-D
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119961

Odd3sy

Thanks for the feedback guys, much appreciated.

@CandyStripes05 I think the loss of detail could be due to the amount of polys in the sculpt compared to the size of the map I used, couldn't quite capture all of the detail perhaps. I will post my texture maps when I get a second.

I noticed about the tooth as well, but by the time I had the normals had already been baked model had already been skinned and rigged, so I didn't want to start moving things around. Also there was no where to move the tooth to, it wouldn't have been sitting in the gum properly if I had moved it. This was just due to me not checking the size of the bottom jaw proprely when modeling.

I will try a different pose and see how it looks.

@[SF]Three9 I never noticed about the hip wrinkles, I maybe could have toned them down in ZBrush, they seemed fine at the time and were similar to the reference I was using. Not much I can do about it now though.

Thanks again guys.

Odd3sy

ahh more feedback!

@Stu I will go back and have another look at the walk cycle, and try and reduce the 'wigglyness'

Odd3sy

Revised walk cycle

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aezz5Lr_Rw&quot;]Velociraptor Final Walk Animation - YouTube[/ame]

Odd3sy

Texture Maps

Diffuse


Specular


Normals


Displacement

Odd3sy

Final UDK Renders

CandyStripes05

I think you would have better results if you didn't paint over the cracks in the spec map, you washed them out with flat purples and blues. I would have an overlay layer of just the cracks as black (mess with the opacity) so there is still some contrast and this way allows for the skin to pop more.

Also add more lights to the final renders, you have the the majority of the face hidden in shadow : ( and if you have the time I would work on the wrinkles [SF]Three9 mentioned.