I think I'm out of touch, is this from a game? Looks cool even if I don't know the characters ;-)

Awww... look at he cute little things... they just want their tummies rubbed.. from the inside....

Hi Jeff, The game is Dino Crisis for the PSX. Gail, Rick, and Regina are special ops commandos sent to an island lab to retrieve a noted scientist. However, things are happening on the island, that not even THEY know about.... Ikyoto, Day aw cute widdle tings aren't day? :) Greywolf

downright snuggly. reminds me of my ex... only they have better teeth.

(1) Where can I get the helicopter model? (2) Perhaps the raptors have eaten out all the rabbits and rats and deer on the island and want a lift to a better hunting ground. If they are a pack hunting species, and if they were hatched and raised by humans, perhaps they treat humans as fellow pack members rather than as prey.

Nice picture :) It's very well composed and dynamic, and I particularly like the way you've blurred the rotors. (But shouldn't the central prop be blurred as well?) Paul

AA, The chopper is a commercial model, but check out www.meshfactory.com for details. The prices are right. :) Paul, The rotors were blurred using a tut I found on the net. I've never tried special effects before and, as a result, I have not the slightest idea on how to blur the central rotor column. :( I'm still experimenting though. I may just come across a way to do it. Awesome programs aren't they? (P4 and B4) Greywolf

Re blurring helicopter rotors: my posable backpack helicopter motor and rotor set (in the Poser Fun Stuff) has both explicit rotors and a big thin disk which should be textured nearly transparent to represent rotors spinning too fast to be seen properly.

use a smudge tool to give a little "motion" to the center supports. the shaft itself doesn't realy need anything. Also check the props Guild. There is a section with fx props... one of them makes a GREAT flash from a barrel. (Just remebe to turn off the shadows for the flash prop. It looks really silly when a bright flash of light from a weapon casts a shadow)

If I may interject here regarding the blurring of the rotors, if any of you have ever taken a still picture of a chopper in flight, you'd know that the rotors don't seem to be moving much at all! The actual blurring would be minimal, as can be seen in this picture of me taken during my long-ago days of military slavitute.

Legume's the one you can't see inside puking his guts up....

Whether to blur the rotors depends on whether you want to produce an imitation short-exposure photograph or what someone there seeing would see.

Perhaps to get the effect you describe, Anthony, you could use MORE blades, then transmap them, like the disk you discribed. There are several nice FREE military hlicopters at 3d Cafe, BTW.

Sorry: what does "transmap" mean? I made my heli-backpack model by writing a Gnu C++ program to output its .OBJ file, and it makes its spinning rotors disk directly as a disk and also the rotor blades modelled as stationary.