Great then for as much details in Maya. Challenging indeed.

Here's a side ref of an african one, which is the one you're modeling. Was just surfing when i found that one. Interesting i guess to tune with side view.

https://www.rth.org/sdzoo/Elephant%20african.jpg

Hope it helps.





lol ... next challenge, model the back of it
Wooosh bump details :bandit:
https://www.neystadt.org/john/album/T...il-Wagging.jpg

holy moly.
1) didn´t realize the difference between african and indian one. used both species for my reference pics.
2) aren´t we supposed to model the head of the animal only?!

have to read the guidelines again..

hehe!

lol ... next challenge, model the back of it

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plus animating it dropping nuggets..


edit: hope this isn´t too offtopic here!

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Nope you're right, that's head only. I posted the complete image lol that's all.

But the profile, even a bit blurred, is pretty nice side view. Just as head side tuning ref.

And yes, difference between asian and african ones is important. Both your pics here are africans, ... ears tell it so no worry. Ow, you used others , really asian


As far as I know in forums, you're the king in your topic lol.
Well, after god and mountains up here

last update for tonight.

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nice progress, thats looking cool

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thx guys. struggling with the ears now. deleted the old one and added a new ear due to edgeflow reasons. here is a wire.

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Hi Falott,

great start so far.

I really like the feeling of muscles beneath the skin in your model, especially below the eye. Looking forward to seeing how you add more detail in maya. Excellent choice.

thx mate! have to lay this one aside for some time now cause I´m buisy with learning fluids and particles.

Not sure if you need any further Reference Pics or not, but I went to the Melbourne Zoo yesterday and took a few pics if you want them. Each pic is around 2.5MB

BTW: Progress looks great so far!

Cheers
Paul

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weeheee! the zoo!! in front of my housedoor it´s - 6 °C. I´d love to go to the zoo now.. but not here in vienna.

more pics would be cool. you can send it to reg_@chello.at if you like. thx in advance Paul!

kind regards
daniel

Daniel,

-6 . . . man that's cold. It was too hot and sunny here yesterday and my wife got sun burnt! So a slight difference between the temp here and Vienna!

I have emailed the Pictures, I hope they help.

Cheers
Paul

just came home and got your pictures. thx a lot. this is a door to some phantasyland where the sun is shining, it´s warm and people get sun burnt.. I´ll watch your fotos once a day now until april or may, when sun is showing again here.

cheers!

You're welcome Daniel,

Hope the help with the modelling/texturing etc . . . and if not at least you can dream of a warmer place

BTW: The modelling looks great so far!

Cheers
Paul