Raptor love

Sorken

I was working on this velocirator a while back for a school project, and now Im about to revisit it to improve it. So I would LOVE some feedback on all the things I can make better.

Its now about 9,7k tris, and Im hoping to reduce that. Its using a 1024 and a 256 for textures. Renders are Maya viewport.

New image:



Old iamges

BenStrasser

One quick thing where is the tongue? Its looking good

Tom Pritchard

I'd reduce the specular, it makes her seem slimy! Other than that, as Ben said, I'd add a tongue. Other than that, I like the topology, she's looking good!

Lazerus Reborn

Nice topology, but she can be optimised alot more too. There's few too many loops in the tail, inside the mouth can easily be reduced.

Looks good though and no complaints at some raptor love-in, grew up watching Jurassic park ;D

Neox

Sorry that this may sound a bit harsh, but what did you base the raptor on? it doesn't look anything like a velocirator (pretty much like the Jurassic Park raptors don't look like velociraptors at all), the shapes are just wrong, the only thing which is really "raptoresque" is the big toe claw. So if its more like a beast based on a raptor, like in jurassic park, just a cool critter for the audience - then nevermind my post

otherwise here are a few pointers:










also i assume its the velociraptor mongoliensis, so if you took different ref of another species (or other artists, as its all reconstructions of bone fragments so it can't be 100% correct) nevermind as well ^^

BlvdNights

This thread promised love. I see none.

Sorken

Thanks for the feedback guys, it helped me loads.
Ive added a tounge, tweaked the spec reduced the body by about 35%.
Also i added a small scene around him to give him context, all in all it is about 10k tris.

Neox: I'd say this is more a hybrid of 'Jurassic park rapotors' and Utah Rapotor then a true velociraptor. I should have explained that in my first post, my bad.








And a bit of love for BlvdNights:

mikhga

Looks amazing. Though I'd like to see some more scarring and wounds to make it more interesting. Also maybe tone down the whiteness and cleanliness of the teeth, and make them look more "chewed up".

Keep up ze good work.

Seirei

I always get a malware warning when I try to open this thread, weird...

That's a cute little raptor, but I'd expect them to be a little bit more.. shiny!