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# 61 26-08-2006 , 06:56 AM

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first of - this is so cool work Kurt! I wouldn´t know how to do myself but I think I´d try to work on the appearence of the different parts of the surface. right now the material looks kind of similar on the whole creature - teeth, skin, boney parts. it appears to be a bit like plastic. please don´t be mad at me - it could also be my perception which might be wrong. I would try to give the major skin part a liquidish style and the arm part - I guess it is a bone or something - a different material than the skin. maybe less bumpmap or another pattern of bump like scratches or something. right now the creature is very homogenious in its surface apperience alltho there is showing up different physiologic body materials. sorry for my lack of explanating capabilities. but it is also very subtle. hope you know what I mean.

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na, plastic was the wrong word. it´s just the absensce of different surfaces worked out like mirek03 said with translucence.

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# 62 26-08-2006 , 07:25 AM

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Naw i dont think they look like plastic mabye a very little, but still good work, Just wondering Kurt when does this come out? i can't wait for this lol.

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# 63 26-08-2006 , 10:24 AM

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man, Kurt, we get by with a little help from our frends. Jay's advise hit the spot. beautiful depth of field now. My crit.., i miss the taslucent look of the 'skin.' i lved that texture, and thanks for telling me how you greated that nderwater look. i would have been playing around in a fluid container awasting time if you hadn't let that workflow out.

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# 64 04-09-2006 , 03:10 AM

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played a lot more with it back to a bit more green

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# 65 04-09-2006 , 03:58 AM

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hates off to you :bow: :bow: :bow:

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# 66 04-09-2006 , 06:07 AM

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Sweet dude! did they ever get the site fixed or w\e you said so you can put this up? -peace

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# 67 04-09-2006 , 06:20 AM

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Nice render, the water looks nice. The model is really groovy (60's moment there). Nice bump although I would reduce it slightly on the claws things to give them more of a shell like feel.

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# 68 17-10-2006 , 02:45 PM

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Fenomenal... :bow:

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# 69 18-10-2006 , 01:09 PM

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does it have jionts, is it posable as it is, or is it simple great art?

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# 70 18-10-2006 , 05:35 PM

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kurt said in an earlier post that he just posed the creature, it's not rigged. it's possible he will do that later, but not in the near future. it's simply great art at the moment user added image