Pterodactyl (Uni work)

Peter.3dartist · Feb 2013

Working on this piece for uni and was wondering if any one had feed back they could give me

Thanks

TehSplatt · Feb 2013

You have jumped up sub-divisions way too fast with out blocking in the base forms .

ArtemSh · Feb 2013

Imo he's got too much of human anatomy and muscles:) Unless you wanted him to be human-like

Peter.3dartist · Feb 2013

yer i was using more of the human anatomy since it has the same bone structure as humans so it made sense that the muscle groups would be very similar.

Steve Schulze · Feb 2013

I kinda like him. He's not in any way realistic, but he has kind of an endearingly rubber monstery look to him, like something you might find in a Godzilla or Harryhausen stop motion animated movie or something.

Armed-Developers · Feb 2013

The rubber look is my issue, it looks way too stiff, and not something that can flap its wings and fly. In sculpting never forget that how you do it makes the material feel soft, flexible, stiff ext. Cloth is the best example of this. Also do you have a large range of reference images to sculpt from. This should help your anatomy so you don't use human muscle structures. And what was said previously as well, the rate you have jumped subd levels is notable. Each level requires more detail and some of those levels look ignored.

DWalker · Feb 2013

It does remind me a bit of the following:

If you are modelling an actual flying reptile, you should first decide on the species - pteranodon longiceps is probably the closest to what you are doing. Overall, the wingspan should be much greater, primarily in the longest "finger", and there is a noticeable flap of skin connecting the shoulder to the wrist. Both the neck and crest (for this species, at least) are also much longer, each being roughly the length of the torso, and the neck is serpentine and is, once again, roughly the length of the torso. The torso itself was quite short, and while the legs were fairly long they were also rather thin. Overall, bats are probably the best living reference for the wings and how they are connected to the body.

Peter.3dartist · Feb 2013

Thanks for all the replies i can put this to good use now

fish4brains · Feb 2013

Hi Peter, I think you need some more reference. There's a fantastic documentary you can get about Pterosaurs - it costs a bank breaking £6.25 from Amazon (or free of charge if you prefer to acquire it by other means

) and it's narrated by David Attenborough which makes it extra awesome. Lots of fossilised and 3D Pterosaurs to look at for reference (might help when painting too).

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flying-Monsters-DVD-David-Attenborough/dp/B005DE08UU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361794091&sr=8-2"]Flying Monsters [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: David Attenborough: Film & TV[/ame]

Peter.3dartist · Feb 2013

Hi again reworked the base mesh and then had a few comments off people at uni so changed it a bit again and I think Im finally getting there.

This is the one were the pelvis and head needed changing

And with the changes

With be putting it into zbrush now and ill slowly work up the sub layers this time

c22dunbar · Feb 2013

some decent ref:

MOD EDIT: this was a NSFW link to a woman and some 'pterodactyls' in a *situation*

Germophobic · Feb 2013

c22dunbar Jesus Christ man! Totally didn't expect that!

Steve Schulze · Feb 2013

And then he was banned.

Extreme NSFW warning for c22dunbar's post.

c22dunbar · Feb 2013

sorry guys, didn't mean to offend anyone. i apologize for any harm done by the link i posted not minding the potential consequences.

PS. to whom it may concern: there is also one with a t-rex

Peter.3dartist · Mar 2013

Update (life delays work as always)

zbrush work so far resculpted in the form up to sub div 5 (330k points) and got this so far

Peter.3dartist · Mar 2013

running into some problems sculpting on the wings as what ever I do to the front of the wing it affects the back and vice versa, only way i been able to get around this is using separate poly groups and then using the Ctrl+shift click to switch between them.

Any better ways to do this would a great help

Thanks

PTD

izu · Mar 2013

Brush > Auto Masking > BackFaceMask does the trick for me usually!

Peter.3dartist · Mar 2013

really long time since last post but illness took hold for last few days/weeks.
and that auto masking back face works like a treat

Any how added detail on to the wings and the chest now

Peter.3dartist · Mar 2013

Forgot about this website that allows you to show models but its a shame the file size is limited so this only around sub 5 of 7 of this model.

http://p3d.in/SM6Zc

low odor · Mar 2013

Everything with the body is too flat. Also the limbs don't have well defined joints, they're just kind of noodley. I would take a step back from adding details and really hone in on the anatomy.

Pterodactyl (Uni work)

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