1st Character Model Maya Attempt, Reptile Thingy

NoSeRider

I was initially going to make it into a 3 headed Komoto Dragon, but I think I'll make it more Raptor like with Dragon wings. I think I'll finish the low poly model by this weekend.

Basically I just want to Model, UV Map, Texture, Rig and Animate the model.....not turn it into a game model.

Model was initially based on this concept:

KdS

The body is still too unfinished to crit so I'll talk about the head.

Looking the concept (that is very styly ) I notice that your 3D work looks more like some velociraptor than as your concept was.

Maybe you'll transform this after, I let you do this the way you feel.

An advice I can give you is to post the wireframe for us to crit your way to modelize.

Don't hesitate to test the soften/harden options for best render.

Good beginning as mush as I can crit, hope to see more soon

NoSeRider

I'm getting there. I'll post a model viewer link later this weekend. You'll have to have Directx9 to view.

Badge

yea thats definetly more raptor like the komodo. if you make the snout and head smaller and narrower, you get komodo. i would recommend making a few differences in each head. just like ridges and spikes and such. jaw structure too.

i dont really know where you going with the body though.

Sett

Make the body much larger. The heads make up the bulk of the body mass.

NoSeRider

http://user.aol.com/zappazong/view/dragon.htm

Here's a Model Viewer Link. However, you won't be able to look at the model if you don't have these installed:


http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/files/MS3DViewerOCXSetup1006.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...;displaylang=en

The model will be further polygonally pulled and culled, but this gives you an overall perception of design.

I don't know if it's necessary to make 3 different heads since I'm planning on changing them with textures.

Right now the major portions of the model are separated since I'm about to UV Map and get it ready for Rigging.

NoSeRider

http://user.aol.com/pnhassett/art/dragon.zip

Here's an SDK of the Dragon. You can evaluate it and determine if more can be done to it.

Basically, no school starting next week. So I'll try to make a skin and do one animation by the end of the week.

vahl

First off, great design, I realy loved it, but I really think that you kinda lost something while translating it into 3d.
your concept has a really balanced sense of weights and volumes, I think that would have been a good thing to put into the 3d model. Musculature would need more work aswell having 3 heads like this asks an adapted musculature and skeleton aswell, mebbe you should look deeper into that.

keep it up !

NoSeRider

I'm trying to make a sense of muscularture in the texturing. I was planning on just making a low poly model and animating it.

NoSeRider

http://user.aol.com/pnhassett/animate/dragon.mov

I did actually animate this thing, after what?....a year?

Basically, I wanted more training in the software before attempted it.

Squirmy

The model turned out nice. the animation could use some work, first thing I notice was the foot through the floor.