Forum: Carrara

Subject: Dinosaur Model

ominousplay opened this issue on Oct 15, 2007 · 11 posts

ominousplay posted Mon, 15 October 2007 at 7:18 PM

I was wondering if anyone wanted to play around with taking a basic model of an unofficial sea monster (or dinosaur) and creating something original - I've posted a base model (free to use) as a starter. I'm working on a project and thought it would be fun to see what others came up with - unlike an open-ended contest ( i.e. a winter scene, or halloween image ) this is a bit more specific. Here are two links to sites with sea-dwelling dinosaurs. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seamonsters/index.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs/seamonsters/ The model I've uploaded is in .txt format, just rename it to .car for Carrara - it is very humble, doesn't even have chompers yet. On the bbc site, the creature I loosely copied was the Liopleurodon. Thanks - hope I hook a few of you to participate. Robert

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Miss Nancy posted Mon, 15 October 2007 at 9:27 PM

scott a. and virus have done detailed Liopleurodons. http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlscott.html http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/274183

ominousplay posted Tue, 16 October 2007 at 1:54 AM

Great dinosaurs - both links have inspirational models... thanks Miss Nancy - I like you new avitar-

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TOXE posted Tue, 16 October 2007 at 3:22 AM

Ahhh, maybe is a file created with C6 or C5? I'm still on C4...

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ominousplay posted Tue, 16 October 2007 at 10:41 AM

Yes, c6 - better to send an .obj file? I give that a try. Just can't get it small enough - sorry. I'll try opening it in C4 at home and saving it there.

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ominousplay posted Tue, 16 October 2007 at 10:58 AM

Here is the base model with a little more work. It really doesn't look anything like a Liopleurodon, at least not from other artists' and experts' renders - an it doesn't look like Barney either.

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Miss Nancy posted Tue, 16 October 2007 at 3:28 PM

p.s. they were actually reptiles. they apparently preyed on other reptiles and fish. it's not clear at this point if there were any aquatic dinosaurs for them to eat, but in a BBC series one of them was shown grabbing a dinosaur off a reef. probly never happened, but it made a good animation.

ominousplay posted Wed, 17 October 2007 at 12:50 AM

Something I'm trying...

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Paloth posted Wed, 17 October 2007 at 2:12 PM

Cute.

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ominousplay posted Thu, 18 October 2007 at 9:32 PM

That's what my wife said... I was going for a scary dinosaur - fish eating hunter of the shallow seas - cute? I guess it looks more like a baby nessy, than a killer seacreature... Here it is with a texture map -

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ominousplay posted Fri, 19 October 2007 at 2:01 PM

Here is what I'm working on... I want the back dino to fade out more...

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