long time no image!

this model has been lying around for a couple of months, it actually started out as a sculpting test during peach in amsterdam. this week i decided to finally get my act together and finalize it.

this is not a dinosaur.

since i didn’t have the powerful 8 core / 8 gb memory monster machine i had in the blender institute, i had to cut back one level of subdivision. which is not too bad since the surface texture does a decent job of providing addtional detail. here’s a shot at the highest level, with no textures:

the model and the concept around this image evolved quite a bit, here are a few of the design stages i went through. eventually i decided the model is powerful enough (and me being too lazy…), too much environment surrounding the scene would only distract. so that’s why i opted for the “simple statue” type of shot.

this was an early textured version, can you spot the barcode? i had a lot of fun making the skin look less reptilian and more like a mammal.

a test with blender’s fluid sim and a screenshot of the final scene. the workflow for the model was pretty straight-forward. i first modeled the creature in subdivision surface which i then detailed in sculpt mode. from that i extracted a high dynamic range displacement map which was projected back on the original model (also including an armature for basic deformations, extremely easy to set up in a matter of seconds thanks to heat weighting!) the model was posed, lit, shaded, rendered and composited in blender.

thanks for watching,

.andy