Hi Um, Hi Melissa, thanks very much I appreciate it
As far as levels of detail are concerned, I’m planning on adding things as I learn about them. I need to get the cross-sectional shape of the arms and tentacles right. The suckers will be done as color and bump texture maps, which should be ok, unless I want to do some extreme closeup renders.
As far as models of real marine creatures, there’s an image of a sea scorpion I did a couple of years back in the Artwork section of my website. It was called The Crawdad of the Apocalypse. There’s a model of a praying mantis I was working on that still needs to be finished. I’ll probably try a detailed model of a trilobite sometime, as well as some of the nautiloids. Plus of course some of the old marine reptiles.
Carl, if you're not in a terrible hurry (as in a 4-week-wait is ok), then I can take 'pics' to order (as in post all manner of Archi images online to help with this model).
O
Hi Steve, a 4-week wait is no problem at all. I have a mantis that needs completing and other projects with loose ends that need tying up. Any images you might have to offer would be a big help to me and I greatly appreciate you taking the time to make them available when it's convenient to you. 8)
really like the way you handled the dappled light...I tried to carry that off in a white shark painting, and failed miserably...ended up painting it in a storm...
There was a really great painter at a reptile show a few years ago that did a series of elasmosaurs, etc, with that same effect...very nice !
You should take a bow!
greg
Hey Greg, thanks, I’m honored. I checked out your website and liked your painting “Langaha”, and I’d like to see some more. The kraken on the Viking ship sail was a nice touch too 8)
The caustics light effect in the image was produced using a freebie program called the Caustics Generator which produces an image file containing a random tileable caustic light pattern.
After I had the models, light, and haze set up in Carrara and the scene arranged the way I wanted it, I added an extra light overhead and applied the caustics image to the light as a gel. It took about 20 or 30 test renders to get things looking right before I could do the final image renders.
Hi Carl; we'll be doing at least one squid (Architeuthis) examination on October 11 (we have 3 to look at, but will stagger these over a week). We can get pics online that (unlikely; will be fixing/'preserving' it), the next (very unlikely; filming), but definitely the following day (not a problem). Howz about a list of things you'd really like a look at.
It is quite likely that none of the specimens will be dissected, so any pics will be limited to external detail only.
O
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