Elephants - Original SM Gallery Image by Ward

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# 1 18-12-2010 , 07:06 AM

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Elephants - Original SM Gallery Image by Ward

Images transferred from our old site. These elephants were modeled in Maya 4.5, rendered with Mental Ray and composited into the live background in Shake back in 2003. I think it's all done extremely well.

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Very nice and so realistic!!!

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First one looks a little off...the 2nd one is bloody nice.

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... i thought they were real... user added image

im surprised elephantinc didn't reply to this thread first user added image

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# 5 18-12-2010 , 11:56 PM

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... i thought they were real...

im surprised elephantinc didn't reply to this thread first

Originally Posted by Chirone

I was kind of thinking of him when I uploaded this to the gallery actually user added image

And the first one is great bullet you nutter user added image

look again at the lighting on the elephant and then look at the backplate it's composited onto. I would have gone for real as well.

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Very nice!

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... i thought they were real...

im surprised elephantinc didn't reply to this thread first

Originally Posted by Chirone

hehehe
I was rendered speechless by a) how great they are and b) the fact that they had been on the old site all this time and I'd missed them.

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# 8 19-12-2010 , 05:28 AM

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They are really nice. I actually like the first one better then the second, cant really say as why that is but tis the case non the less. But i like them both, Great work.

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... i thought they were real...

im surprised elephantinc didn't reply to this thread first

Originally Posted by Chirone

haha I thought the same thing when I opened this thread.

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I was rendered speechless by a) how great they are and b) the fact that they had been on the old site all this time and I'd missed them.

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Yeah I'm amazed and curious how I never saw them before. Glad these popped up!