Well, Did this one up last night. I used MilDragon 1, but I've heard that the textures from 1 will work on 2. Tonight I'm going to work on the palms. They probably should atleast match the belly, and have smaller scales.

Any Suggestions? -- note the weird green glow to the mouth is a weird lighting thing. I just used a quick lighting set so it needs tweeked.

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Very nice! Perhaps a hint of specular would add to the realism? Or perhaps a little translucence on the wings, so it looks like light is shining through them. Like Catherina did with human ears.

The edges of the ventral plates should blend more smoothly into the scaly hide on either side, rather than ending so abruptly.

Very nice work, otherwise. Were you inspired by the Animal Planet special last night?

Perhaps some translucence on the wing membranes, when you get to them?

Looks very good to me. Maybe a little more wear and tear on his horms ?

Gill

       

Looks awesome! May have to dig out the Mil Dragon LE

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

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I hope you won't put usage restrictions :)

I on the other hand watched it to pick up tips on texturing. Am I alone in this? :) Probably not. But in my case, I was only watching it to see what details they got wrong. Like that bit about the mating flight. Or using a dragon's blood as warpaint.

smaller scales on the bottoms of his feet, much smaller. Look at a real lizard or iguana, the scales on the bottom of the feet are very small especially in species that climb walls or geckos that can climb on glass. Looking FANTASTIC!

The only usage restriction will be that you can't pack the texture up and sell it as your own (not that you couldn't pack it up and GIVE it to people free just a by line is all I ask), anything else would be cool.

as far as the special goes. I found it intertaining, I'm not a big dragon 'specialist' so I can't really comment on the way they explained things from a historic sense. I did however find the 'dragons as big hydrogen ballons' bit a little hokey, and the fact that they 'could' explode on inpact if they were using the fire weapon and crash hard enough. Although that would be a sight to behold. yea I noticed the palms after I rendered this, I'm using crocodiles as guidence more then Geckos and the smaller lizards, but the change still applies just not as small. They also tend to be a bit lighter in color then the tops of the hand so I'll probably use the belly coloration in them.

Ohh BTW perhaps I'm just being retarded today but I can't seem to find Catherina's gallery or what randym77 was talking about, any one have a link or something that I can follow

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Try here, thixen:

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=2105489

Get comfortable, it's a long read.

looking good. Just downloaded the mill dragon 2 yesterday (litrally took all day on dialup!) not had chance to really have a go with it yet.

 

Thanks, I hope to have an update this evening (or early tomorrow morning) with some of the suggestions so keep an eye open. BTW little_dragon, read the whole thing, thanks that was fabulous.

With Trans.

Improved Translucence global lighting

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The wings look great.

Same Texture differant lighting poser and a higher quaility to the render

moving to a newer post this one is DEAD :(