The Crawler

[Wayne]

http://www.dashdotslash.net/gallery/crawler.jpg

[Bryan Silva]

I like the presentation of this one. Looks like a picture of a clay sculpture. Can you talk about your material, and lighting in this scene?

[Wayne]

I like the presentation of this one. Looks like a picture of a clay sculpture. Can you talk about your material, and lighting in this scene?


Sure, here goes...

It was rendered with mental ray (or 'crazy bob' as I prefer to call it) using photometric lights (2 mr portal lights) and the arch and design shader with the spec and reflection back nearly all the way off. MRexposure was used and this is straight as it came out of mental ray with no post barring resizing. One mrPortal was to the right and the other to the left and above.

I'd have loved to have continued with this one but alas like many of the early models from the beta and just after it was lost when some mental giant sent drive killer and turned 4 1/2 terrabytes of my drive snad backup drives into paperweights. The idea for the final was to make the skin similar to a worms.


Wayne...

[Nangyal]

love the designe and the clay look, good work

[Wayne]

Its a shame I could never finish it after it was lost, but maybe I'll do a 'mark 2' version like I did with the spiker one day.

Wayne...

[creatoroflife]

Its a shame I could never finish it after it was lost, but maybe I'll do a 'mark 2' version like I did with the spiker one day.

Wayne...


hi, wayne.. my son and i love your work, he is 13 and follows your lessons.. we have a question..sorry.. but how can we paint in straight lines and without that it goes like water we try freese and mask areas it wont work because the paint goes under the blue freese collor...???? we go crasy.. and we make teeht and we triy tow work under and up the theet and it rimpels???


love your work we go onn.. michael\manuel

[Wayne]

If you use one of the preset curves you can contrain your brush to it to get perfect straight lines every time. There's even a preset straight line curve already there. I did a video on using curves a few days back that is on the front page of the site. As for painting...paint on a sperate layer then use the erase brush to delte what you dont need. If you activate steady stroke as well you'll be able to get it spot on the money.

I fyour son sticks at it, by the time everyone else is starting to get into 3d, he'll already have a number of years experience on them. Which is just the sort of advantage needed as the 3d world gets more and more crowded.
Take care


Wayne...

[spybg]

Its a shame I could never finish it after it was lost, but maybe I'll do a 'mark 2' version like I did with the spiker one day.

Wayne...

Can't wait to see it ;D