the dragon tutorial

Complex UV Layout in Maya

Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character

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# 1 08-09-2003 , 01:44 PM

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i was doing this dragon tute and here what i ended up with tell me what u think... and my questions are if possible... what would be the best way to texture this dude... and since i cant draw i need some reffrence pictures of the rest of the dragon... thnx

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# 2 08-09-2003 , 02:48 PM

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looks great! how did you set up your lighting?
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# 3 08-09-2003 , 02:52 PM

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Really nice mate... Textureing i would cut him in half to lay out the uv then duplicate to make the other side.....

Just search for dinosaurs or dragons on the net you should be able to find some reference.

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# 4 08-09-2003 , 04:01 PM

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For the body shape, you may want to check

https://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dino/bodyindex.dsml

For possible textures, I recommend the BBC site for "Walking with Dinosaurs".

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# 5 08-09-2003 , 09:05 PM

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lightning was just a dome with a hdri map... here the head is looking better i guess and i started the body...

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# 6 08-09-2003 , 09:17 PM

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whoa... really nice.. I need to get cracking on my dragon soon user added image

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# 7 09-09-2003 , 12:29 PM

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i have almost finish the body withouth the details but am really struggling with the hands and the feet, so tell me what do you think and any critics and suggestions are welcome....:bgreen:

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# 8 09-09-2003 , 05:44 PM

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Coming together nicely I really like the job you did on the head.

On the wings / arms they look a little odd as in all the pictures I have seen dragons tend to have their arms / forelegs integrated with their wings rather than seperate. For example;

https://www.princeton.edu/~sgu/pcon26/images/dragon.jpg

There's no reason not to have them seperate of course, but it does look a mite strange. The back legs look a bit tiny to support the bulk. Like the shape of the wings though - suits the head nicely.

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I would make the legs a little more defined (muscular) and larger on the top half. Look at a dog leg or velociraptor like this one.
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And for the shape (import as a side view reference)
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Nice dragon man:thumbsup:

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# 10 11-09-2003 , 01:56 AM

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man thats hot..

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thanx for the reference pictures man, cos my ones were not sharp enough thanx dude... and thanx for the nice comments guyssss user added image

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no problem at all. Well deserved in my opinion.

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# 13 20-09-2003 , 10:51 AM

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i havent been around for a while.. so this is the latest feet better in my opinion thanks to vectors ref pictures, legs are bigger stronger and more defined arm moved up a little but no muscle sturcture yet,

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# 14 20-09-2003 , 12:25 PM

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Awesome...

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nice nice!

but... in the first pic did you use HDRI or LDR or a HDRI-shader? fake with environment reflectivity?

do you use a mentalray for the hdri?

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