Never been in a competition before, so now's the first time. Took me AGES to come up with an animal that wasn't already chosen (and didn't have fur...), but finally: a turtle. Green Sea Turtle. And I'll probably render it with Turtle too

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Nice idea.

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hehe.. I actually thought about that that turtle looked like the ones in Nemo... I guess it's the same.

Should be cool . . can't wait to see this one. Good choice.

Good animal to model, it'll be nice to see you texturing it

If you can't get any good orthographic style pics then search around for pics on the skull. They would help because most of the head mass is the actual skull (unlike for example most mammals)

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that's a good point t1ck135, will do that.

Didn't find any skulls in orthogonal view, so I started without them. This is one hour's work, still look kinda like a frog... think it's seomthing with the eyes, and the mouth. The mouth will look better after texturing I think though, since they have sort of a under lip/chin that's painted only.

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Just did a search on turtle skull on google images and got a couple of useful images just in case you need them

https://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/sc...es/seaturt.jpg

https://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/tur...ll_lateral.jpg

https://cal.man.ac.uk/student_project...lk/dictio4.jpg

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thanks! Will come in handy.

hey djblazer i think you are off to a good start!keep it up.

Its looking alot like one of them hand puppets thingys. Cute. Im sure it'll take more shape as it progresses

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thanks mc-fleury

Tiago2, hehe.. yeah, now that you mentioning it...

Did some more work, looks a bit less like a frog now.

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The shape is now pretty good I think, not any major thing to model more I think.. I'll probably do some of the neck and the beginning of the shell also.

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some more refining...

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Ok, I think I'm done with modelling, I don't think I can get it any better. Might tweak it a little later if some things get obvious after texturing has begun.

So next on the schedule is UV-mapping.

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