T-Rex model - critiques wanted

montana2008

Hi all, could you critique my work please?
Its not finished yet so any suggestedimprovements and tweaks would be great
thanks very much in advance

almighty_gir

the word that comes to mind right now is "unbalanced", he looks like he's going to topple over forwards. thicken up the tail a bit, and lose some of the tummy, bend his hind legs so he's actually resting his weight on them instead of how it is now where there's nowhere for him to go but forward. the lower jaw could be a little thicker too maybe?

pseudoBug

Also unbalance when it comes to color. His head and neck are pretty much a single hue of brown, and his body is the same but green.

SiegePerilous

Right now looks somewhat like an Allosaurus. I did a quick paintover of a few things. I'd suggest making a new file, dropping to a lower subdiv and working over body masses with animal reference photos/videos from different angles. Looks like you spent a lot of time and effort on the surface detailing and polypaint but the underlying masses don't always clearly define the muscle and bone structures underneath.

I'd be interested to see a version of this without color. Good luck.

montana2008

great!! thanks for the feedback!! and thanks very much for the paintover SiegePerilous,

much appreicated because i can visualise what you mean by looking at the paintover, nice one guys

SiegePerilous

Yeah sure it's great exercise for me too. Post more as you go!

montana2008

Lephenix

That's much better.

montana2008

thanks

montana2008

montana2008

animation test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WfScszf3FQ&feature=youtu.be

montana2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOXHqLwmXXc&feature=youtu.be

nbac

this is looking very good
shader is a bit to glossy
and the walkcycle needs more hip movement

montana2008

Hi all, thanks for the comments, here is my link to the download package installer for UDK. Could you guys be so kind and install it please if you have time? please leave me some more comments about the T-Rex if you can. Many thanks in advanced.

udk- trex package installer http://www.gamefront.com/files/21645226/UDKInstall-T-Rex.rar

Shanthosa

Looks cool. He seems a little imbalanced right now though. In the second video the foot placement is a little better, but in the images you have it looks like he should topple forward.



In this image you can see that the base of the tail is very meaty. The legs also have a lot of heft to them. In your version these areas are a lot flimsier. Beef them up to make him more menacing. Lower his center of gravity and try to balance it so he won't look off-balanced while standing still.

Looks good -- Keep going!