In keeping with proper acknowledgements, I need to post this.

All References to the worlds and characters based on Anne McCaffery's fiction are copyright Anne McCaffery 1968 - 2008, and used with permissionof the author. The Dragonriders of Pern is a trademark registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, used here with the permission. Use or Reproduction without a Liscense is strictly prohibited. 

Unfortunately... the Animation project will be on indefinite hold as I was unable to obtain permission from Anne's Estate. Yes, I sought permission. My fan art will continue, but the Grand Scheme is on hold. Maybe one day... :)

Awesome, Teyon. That will help loads!

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Teyon... The toes are fine. I like them. The poly count is good too. Will there be uvmaps? It'll help in texturing. THanks loads!

FFD... I will be using the textures. Thanks loads!

oooh... interesting. 

I know you will find the right project for those scale techniques, Teyon. Judging from what you have accomplished here, with so little to go on, you are an incredible talent. Keep up the great work. 

LOL, here's an idea... once everything is said and done, change the head and give the tail a spade or other type of structure! That way, you could use those new techniques for dragon scales. 

It was just a thought. 

I like the lower one best. My wife likes the the lower one as well, though she prefers the neck on the upper without the loose skin. I tend to agree. Everything else looks great!

Looks fantastic BTW. Can;t wait to see finished product!

Hope you get to feeling better soon, Teyon.  How were the cons?

As for firelizards, Menolly had 10. Ranging from a gold queen to those couple of greens. 

Its one of the reasons I want to do this little bit of animation. To show that we can have Pern done truly and faithfully to Anne's and Todd's World. (Its now as much his as it was hers. A fan Tribute so to speak. DOne as faithfully as possible.

thanks, I'll check it out.

Its described in the books more like a hide. Not scaly. I'm thinking something like suede... will defintely be textural. The Eyes are Faceted like an insect. Probably textural as well. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. 

I find that odd. There's all kinds of Fan art out there. Even some text based rpg's that have been around forever with anne's blessing. The book, The People Of Pern, started out as a piece of fan art. Also, as far as I know, Todd doesn't seem to have an issue with fan based art.  I will continue with my project.

I tried to do it with the Nil Dragon and Sub dragon..... Neither can do the things I need it to do. And call me a perfectionist, but the wings need to be like the images above or like those on Swidhelms Dragons. 

It is a georgeous Dragon.Hell, If I coud get Dinoraul and Swidhelm together on this, that would be the jackpot! But I can't seem to get ahold of either.

All images were gotten from the web, mostly from DeviantArt.