Thanks for your thoughs.

As far as the wings go, I'm really not happy with them at the moment, I plan to use Faceoff's tutorial for SSS and I'll take a look at Catherina's gallery it may inspire me.

ventral plates - check, I can just use the body texture and blend it in. I may even be able to get away with a blender node trick.

Horns are just using a canned Poser texture so yea they could use some work on wear and tear for now we'll just say it's a young dragon ;) what do you guys think about perhaps a trace amount of translucence to the horns as well. I've observed that some peoples teeth, even though they take good care of them, for one reason of another have a little bit of a translucence quaility to them, any one concer?

I was accutally inspired by the Animal Planet commercials a little while back, but waited until after the special to make some obsercations on how they did things. Strange huh, most people watched the show to learn a little more about dragons and if they could of existed. I on the other hand watched it to pick up tips on texturing. Am I alone in this? :)

Ohh BTW I plan to wrap this up into a mat file and stick it in the freebies section when I'm done, so all your suggestions will make a better free product for all of us to use

Message edited on: 03/21/2005 09:57