Naked Pigeon Thing

TehSplatt

Latest Update: Played with some texturing and feathers looks terrible so yea feed back welcome haha








Lately ive been seeing dinosaurs with walk cycles popping up every where and ive been critiquing alot of them but then i thought hmmmm i dont even know if could do my own dinosaur with walk cycle? so after all that i ended up modelling what ever this is. but its allgood because im going to give it a walk cycle and textures and stuff. so at the moment this is my little concept sculpt i want to make the claws bigger and change up the size of the leg going into the foot and will most likely end up changing the shape of the beak and some other general things. I welcome feed back



Going to give it some feathers eventually and a cool colour scheme

TehSplatt

If any ones around lol could some one tell me how to change the title i forgot to put W.I.P in there. or if theres some one around that could change that that would be helpfull thanks

Jessica Dinh

I don't think it's all that necessary to put W.I.P. in your thread title, because even when people post finished work it gets critiqued anyway :poly142: Nice sculpt so far!

Steve Schulze

Looks like a dodo bird.

The harsh angles in the neck are a little odd. They kind work stylistically, but not so much if you're going for a more realistic treatment. He could kinda go either way at this point.

TehSplatt

Yea im going for more stylised but didnt have time so when i go and resculpt it ill exaggerate some features or maby tone down the kinks in the neck haha ill have to do 2 differnt versions.

Sculptaur

Cool man. Definitely see improvements from when you showed me earlier. Nice to see your going ahead with it.

Marisa

Hey, I'm loving the design!
Try to break up where the beak starts and the head begins. Right now its all meshing together. You can definitely play around and add some interest to that section. If you were going for that look, forget I said anything, hehe.
Great Sculpt!

Robbyh

That dodo design ! slick !

katana

I clicked on this just because it said "Naked"...lol...very funny.

Clark Coots

good sculpt so far, i'm liking the skin folds on the neck area

Selaznog

Hm, I agree with Jackablade. Something about the neck (even from a stylistic point of view) just seems off. The neck looks like a bony finger almost

Donavonyoung

I think that the neck just seems too stiff. If you look at Rango's neck it has much more or a natural curve to it.

Two Listen

It looks weird right now because that bulge you've got at the base of the neck resembles what you'd see from a breastbone in a baby featherless bird, except you've got it way higher up, on the neck. I've lived with 4 birds (have 3 right now), my wife has lived with over 10 of varying species - and none of them have a bone like that on their neck. Their most pronounced point in the front is pretty much always the breastbone and is significantly lower (you can feel it when petting them very distinctly).

duncan

haha Really cool idea. Purple fluff works well. One thing is weird to me though, no drumstick?? I would highly recommend putting them in.

Looking forward to your next update.

TehSplatt

Ok. thanks for all the comments guys ive taken them all into account and i deffinitly like the redesign alot more so thanks. but i only get to work on this stuff during lunch breaks because me home computers broken at the moment so heres the redesign and more critique is welcome

TehSplatt

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chrisradsby

Looks a lot better! Nice work so far , can't wait to see this finished

I wonder how a saddle would look on it ? ^^

TehSplatt

haha i will definitely have to try that

TehSplatt

Having a mental block at the moment did a retopo and resculpt but im pretty torn between sculpting in realistic skin and folds or just leaving it at this (not completely like this) and doing hand painted textures for it. I DONT KNOW ANY MORE any ways help would be nice thanks guys

PogoP

Looks awesome, much prefer this sculpt

Steve Schulze

They both work quite nicely. I think I prefer the one with the more lumpy, natural skin detail, but I guess you're going to lose a lot of that if you lay down feathers.

Maybe the question you have to ask yourself is if you were hypothetically going to use this fellow in a game or animation, what would it be like - would the smoother more stylised version work better or the one with the natural surface work better.

Darkleopard

Its so cute! In a grumpy kind of way.

Really nice sculpt. Cant wait to see the textures

TehSplatt

Did a quick test bake tonight and did some sculpting havnt started cutting down the polys yet its at about 6000 tris

TehSplatt

Did a quick paint over of some new feet so it actually looks like a prehostoric bird type thing looks much better now

RogerP

+1 on the new feet, like them way better

TehSplatt

New Feet

ClamJam

looking so awesome dude!, im loving the creases and folds.

Torch

Aww man...wish I'd done a cool looking dodo now. New feet improve it a lot - Awesome!

michaelmilette

Looks awesome can't wait to see the textures. how are you going to play this are you going to go with a very colorful artsy feel or a more realistic texture feel?

awesome work so far

TehSplatt

I honestly have no idea ive been real hung up on texturing because i wanted to have it kind of prehistoric dinosaur type skin but it doesnt work as well as i though it would im giving it purple feathers so i wanted to have it kind of blue shades but at this point im really lost lol any suggestions would be very helpfull last night i was at the point where i was just over laying cow and leopard print patterns onto the texture haha

TehSplatt

Did some random stuff tonight haha just playing around with feathers and texture looks rather bad at the moment but yea posting for help haha