Hey Matt, just had a thought, have a look at the film "Treamors" with Kevin Bacon, they have some Giant worms in that which might help you visulise the animation etc..

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thanks... and uhh I'm thinking about removing the first picture it's uhh... controversial?

Anyawy- I've done some more work, I'm making the tough rib-ring structure

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just a quick little out-of-boredom render

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Niiice. Keep it up, Matt.

lol, 'dune worm porno'

Looking good thus far! Can't wait to see your progress!

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Eric Tacti
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dune worm porn..?

at least Matt's took its false teeth out first...lol,

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ugh... UV mapping of this beast is taking a while. I think i'm just going to take it into 3ds Max and pelt map it

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Very nice work so far, I read the pre-quels to the Dune novel and started thinking about doing some models from the series too I had just picked up Maya when I was reading it, started working on a spice harvester and dropped the idea due to school. Now I might just have to finish it and add it in here

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thats a nice backdrop Matt, brings the beast to the full attention of the viewer, where did you do that, photoshop or maya?? and how?

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Thanks guys, i havent had much time to work on it lately... school and sports takes up a big chunk of my time

The background is acheived using Mental Ray and Image Based lighting through HDR images. Tell me if you need more explination

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The modeling looks good, but it seems more mechanical than organic.

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I haven't had much time with this... I play on my high school's ski team so I'm ski racing 2 days a week and running another 4, so I don't have much time.

I'll try to work on it some time this weekend though

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good concept matt. Good to see you modelling again...

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Nice work Matt..
My advice..model it eating a spice harvester... That would look nice..

Love these books.. be glad when i can afford the first of the last two in teh series that Brian and KEvin J anderson are puttin gout... first one hit the shelves a few months ago in hard back...

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image based lighting, you put an image into which node where matt? I know its MR, is it a dome (sphere) with an image (HDR) mapped to it??

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