My first sculpt: Red Coral...

[Gregg]

Hello everyone...

I was asked to build a red coral for a documentary film and so, i used Mudbox.
It's my first sculpt with it and I know it's not much, but well... i had to start from somewhere...
I used Mudbox for the main body and LightWave for the rest. The polypods are instanced geometry.

Here's the base geometry used:
http://www.sub-pixel.com/Corals/Low.jpg
Here's the high rez sculpted model:
http://www.sub-pixel.com/Corals/High.jpg
Here's a test render of the body, without the polypods:
http://www.sub-pixel.com/Corals/Render.jpg
And this is the final render with the polypods:
http://www.sub-pixel.com/Corals/Final.jpg

Also, here (http://www.sub-pixel.com/Corals/Coral-Low.mov) you can find a test loop-able sequence of the complete red coral (QT mov, 5mb)...

Hope you like it...

Cheers,
T.Rex

[Hulahuga]

I like it. Looks good :). Do you have any reference shots?

[Gregg]

Thanks....

I used photo references taken from the documentary supervisor...
Most of them came from on-line search; it's easy to find, as Red Coral animals are almost extinct now and exist mostly in photos... and jewelery...

These are the four that i used more:
http://www.sub-pixel.com/Corals/References.jpg

Cheers,
T.Rex