Yesterday in my kitchen... >_>

sama.van

Yeah, title is not cool, but I don't know the name of that animal in english

And I'm sorry again, 4mo the picture... But hope you'll like it guys!

If some people are interested about some shoots, send to me message I have the hires on my HDD!

adam

Wow, what a night to choose Polycount as the last site I go to before bed.

Great pics btw.

ericdigital

Lobster!!

Nice reference photos!

snemmy

Was it tasty?

MoP

excellent timing, i just needed some of this reference for my dominance war texturing

thanks!

Wahlgren

Lobsters. Like big freaky insects

Okt

Notorious P.I.G wrote: »

Lobsters. Like big freaky delicious insects

If only cockroaches...

rolfness

mmmm tasty and Im reminded of that simpsons episode...

Andreas

yummy...

stop playing with your food Sama!

Ben Apuna

Neat post! I never realized lobsters had so many different shell variations. I need to study(eat) more of them

empeck

Looks like facehugger ;D

Ruz

I hope you haven't been giving your lobster cigarettes:)
kind of last request thing

claydough

is it a lobster? what happened to the claws?

sama.van

It's strange. Nobody speak about that, but my first impression was "shit an alien in my kitchen!!".
You know, that one he caught your head and drop some eggs in the mouth! Desgusting, isn't it? haha!!

Then I took lot of pictures, and finaly it really was a beautiful specimen!
I went back to the 2nd working on my 3D.... and when I went back in the kitchen, legs and other in my miso soup -____- . . .
My father in law said museum look for specimen like that because to expensive one!

My wife said to fight a lot with it. When I took the picture it was really alive! And crazy move.
Just imagine 1s my wife putting the monster in the boiled waiter and trying to go away!
Haha crazy! I missed that!!!! ffuck the moon!!! T_T...

But the monster get my finger... In the pink plate , on the bottom you can see a leg with lot of spin.... I try to open for eating it, but I lost a finger in the fight haha!!

Anyway. crazy evening! It was delicious!


(And that one don't have claws, it fight with power of legs!)
MNy mother in law get it when fishing with a rod... seriously.... And father in law get 2 of that one too!

vahl

awesome dude, I needed good refs of a lobster for some lobster alien diplomat character I wanted to do !!

(c'est une langouste non ?)

InProgress

MAN THE HARPOONS!!

Neat-o refs, dude.

Rox

My thoughts as I found this thread:

"Yesterday in your kitchen... this isn't going to go well, huh? You found a giant bug or something OH MY GOD IT IS A GIANT BUG! WHY DID YOU TAKE SO MANY PICTURES?! IT'S HORRIBLE!! OH GOD LOOK AT THOSE LEGS AND THOSE wait that's a lobster?? That's a freaking lobster! A lobster. Gee, thanks for that."

I still don't understand how people can actually eat those things, though. Now, I don't mind eating cute things. Give me a deer or a rabbit to chew on and I'll be happy. But I wouldn't touch one of those things with a stick! Or crabs. Crabs freak the hell out of me. I guess I might change my mind if someone tricks me into eating one and I like the taste? But if I have a choice... No thanks.

urgaffel

Rox, you're missing out, lobsters are awesome. Hummersoppa tex

Sama, great pics. Any chance of getting the hd ones as a zip or something uploaded somewhere? Would be great reference for freaky alien stuff

Ruz

Rox - I thought along similar line ie aggh its a giant roach, get me a baseball bat:o

kwakkie

Lol that's no lobster! I dont know the english name but in my country its called a 'langoest', I think they only excist in Europe. You guys should have a coconut crab next time, now THOSE are scary!

And Rox, a lobster is just a really big shrimp, but tastes even better, you should try it sometime(but have some else make it for you because killing one yourself is pretty nasty).

dolemite

"I still don't understand how people can actually eat those things, though."


word. awesome pics tho!

Richard Kain

Thanks for sharing the images. Those are some great reference pics for chitinous arthropods. I found the small swimmer fins below the abdomen to be especially interesting. I've seen quite a few polycounters trying their hands at modeling arthropods before. These images will be very useful for sculpting. (a lot of good texture reference in there)

I have a natural fear of most land-based arthropods. (insects and their ilk) But I love me some of the aquatic variety. I take a kind of perverse pleasure from watching them get boiled alive.

Jesse Moody

claydough wrote: »

is it a lobster? what happened to the claws?

If I remember right pacific lobsters don't have claws like the ones out of new england area.

I grew up in maine so i'm used to the awesome new england lobster.

SO TASTY!!!!

Gav

Jesse, I believe you're right...I grew up in Nova Scotia and ours were clawed, I think the ones "out here" don't have them.

ROCK LOBSTAH

Edit: Rox, you're missing out...give it a try

Target_Renegade

Langouste!

shotgun

http://www.japanesebugfights.com/

rebb

I mourn the loss of this langouste.

Jay Evans

i think I saw a lobster penis.

[Deleted User]

These are some great reference pics!

I have a natural fear of nearly all non-mammalian aquatic creatures, arthropods x10. Lobsters and all their seafood friends actually frighten me more than scorpions do. Roaches, waterbugs, and mantii rank scarier than catfish though.

Nick Carver

oishisou desu ne!

I remember seeing grabber machine games in Osaka where you could win live lobsters. I never had the courage to try and win one as my tiny apartment only had a microwave...

Great ref photos!

bounchfx

fuckin a those things are scary to look at

Rox

kwakkie wrote: »

And Rox, a lobster is just a really big shrimp, but tastes even better, you should try it sometime(but have some else make it for you because killing one yourself is pretty nasty).

I can't stand shrimps either, though... I've forced myself to eat, like, shrimp salad and stuff a few times, when people have bought it for me. I'll say this: I do like the taste, quite a lot. But I HATE the actual critters that the taste belongs to. If you could make artificial shrimp flavor, I'd probably be all over it, but if it's made from real shrimps, then no thanks. I don't value taste high enough to wanna eat them because of it.

Joshua Stubbles

Nothing better than lobster and ghee. Nice ref pics, thx!

Valandar

Rox wrote: »

I can't stand shrimps either, though... I've forced myself to eat, like, shrimp salad and stuff a few times, when people have bought it for me. I'll say this: I do like the taste, quite a lot. But I HATE the actual critters that the taste belongs to. If you could make artificial shrimp flavor, I'd probably be all over it, but if it's made from real shrimps, then no thanks. I don't value taste high enough to wanna eat them because of it.

Well, there ARE artificial crab and lobster bits, made from Atlantic Whitefish...

oXYnary

Reminds me of the crawdads I used to play with/find when I was a kid in the local Rivers in Michigan.. Except this being about 20X larger!

Conor

rolfness

Vassago wrote: »

Nothing better than lobster and ghee. Nice ref pics, thx!

this man knows his shit

Steve Schulze

I guess Mop's crustacean man with his groin arms wasn't as crazy a design as we'd first thought.

You're missing out a bit getting a lobster with no pincers, Samavan. That's where the best meat is.

sama.van

Jackablade wrote: »

You're missing out a bit getting a lobster with no pincers, Samavan. That's where the best meat is.

That's normal, hthe japanese one doesn't have it!!
But don't be worry, I'm french and already ate lot when I was in France ^_^...


Sorry the download picture is not really design

Anyway click on it and download the Hires pictures!


You will find more about this specimen on :
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spiny_lobster
- http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E4%BC%8A%E5%8B%A2%E6%B5%B7%E8%80%81&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=ja&sa=N&tab=li

And the right kanjis for more research are : 伊勢海老（ i sa e bi ）

Please share your work if you use this pictures, I'll be glad to see the result!!

Andreas

I was thinking the same thing Conor. Those gross suckers would put me off eating it