Mech Fish [Video] - UPDATED AGAIN!

boofredlay

Phew!! that was nauseating!!AWESOME MATE! Great job done..!!

Thanks

The way you've used Artisan is amazing. knowing exactly where to draw lines, which lines to move to get just the right kind of structure for bones...

That comes from using Artisan on a regular basis and knowing how it will respond.

@mukul.ar said:

And was that the Curviloft plugin used for modelling the mouth of the fish?

Nope, just the Follow Me and Scale tools.

@mukul.ar said:

...and the music was very in sync with the vid..

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boofredlay

It has been a while but I wanted to render this guy. Here is a quick one with Twilight.
Hopefully more to come.

boofredlay

marvins_dad

Amazing Eric!
Now we need one that moves around for use with Lumion. LOL

Slimdog

That was a great vid man thanks for sharing.

boofredlay

Thanks guys.

Mmmm, animation. Just might try that.

KarinaGM

Oh, how did I miss this one?
The video makes me want to cry
Tell me you don't work at this speed... even if I know what I'm doing and carefully plan the model, just to pick a tool takes me a couple of seconds.
No need to say that the model is good, I think I already said that when the contest took place
Thanks for the video. not a tut, cause I can't even follow the pointer!

I also would love to see it moving

boofredlay

Well thanks Karina. I will see if I still have the real time version. This one was sped up 3x so as not to bore anyone.

boofredlay

Ok Karina I found the full version and have uploaded it to Youtube.
I edited the original post and added the video there.
Seriously though, I think it is much more boring

boofredlay

Here is a rendered video I made of the Mech Fish. Twilight Render.
I will warn you ahead of time, it is choppy and very short.
This was a fun exercise but it is getting to be a bit too much work for a couple seconds of choppy video. I almost have the animation bug now however. Is it time to find another modeling app???

Anyway, here is probably the last one of these. That is unless I get bored and decide to make this 60 layers rather than 20

[flash=853,505:z025mxx6]http://www.youtube.com/v/5M3Ha5zJFok&fs=1[/flash:z025mxx6]

Fletch

Whoa! Got the caustics moving, eh?
Excellent work, Eric!
Indeed character animation and SU were not really "meant to be together."

boofredlay

Thanks Fletch.

KarinaGM

Yay!!! short but nice

And thanks for that video. You work fast even at a normal video speed

boofredlay

Well it is a speed competition

Biggwin

What did you use to go from the blocks to the rounded surfaces?

boofredlay

I used Artisan.

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