Hey Serial! I've been looking at your works online and laughing my head off over how obnoxious max4d ^ is, LoL. I think your works are great starts. I mean, I do presume these are some of your first works...right? And when you model, you shouldn't HAVE to look some stuck-up person's rendition of a perfect creature. I think the basic model of your creature is very nice! The texture looks a bit cartoony I agree, but overall, its a fairly nice model. THe grass in this scene could use a bit more width, depth, variance, and thickness, but it's up to you... and I can't figure out why his hands are green instead of some shade of orange. But I see you said it was just something for school, nothing too professional. anyway, I think you're on a good start. good work!

i belive that people post their work on renderosity to get feedback, i've given people some opinions like max4d, and people payed me out too, but why? its defying the pourpouse of this site, if someone posts something and 20 people say its good, and dont say why, or 20 people say its crap, dont just say its good or crap, tell them why, because they send there stuff here to get help, to improve there work, i know i do. anyway about the pic, i agree with max4d about the grass, altho its a good attempt, the sparks are a good try, good for improvising, try making them a bit smaller, and add motion blure to the sparks, also the fire, get a helper, add combustion (depending on what version) and mess with settings, look in max user reference for idears on smoke, you can expand it to the fire. Besides that its good, keep on trying, you can only get better!! (as we all can)

thank you for the good comments. as far as the grass goes it is just a spline because i had to use scatter and my computer is no performance beast anymore. so that is mostly the reason for that. and as far as the creature goes i wasnt really going for realism as much as my own style. and yes im a relative beginner. this is my second year in 3d.

Hey dudes, Woodman, so it seems you are one hell of a biginner to, look, i am giving comment so serialinferno can get better, not to put him down. I know what, woodman, come down on the 3dtotal forum and you will cry to your mammy. To get metter you have to be though. Serialinferno, i am also a newbie in moddelng, the model of mee you saw, was my first complex on, so i still have some way to go. and BTW, look at my gallery and you will find a picture of mee with grass and in the same way you did it. And if you can't take it, LEAVE, You to Woodman. Just take it and deal with it, than become better and prove me wrong, allright. Greetz Max4d

I really like your progression throughout your images. I know that you will continue to get better. I think this image is pretty good, the feeling you are putting out seems to be conveyed pretty well in your image. When I look at the thumbnail, I am very impressed, but when I look at the larger image, I start to look at all of the details, I see flaws. The grass could use a little more thickness and variation, and some of the bump might be a little too high, and the fire could use a little work, but the over all look and feel for the image is really done well. If you keep working at it I think it could come out really well. Keep it up man!