Praying Mantis- 3DS Max WIP-FINISHED 12-11-02

[Dan Huff]

Here's the modelled part of my final project for Max 1 class. Comments and suggestions would be welcomed. Still need materials, textures, lighting, and rendering.

Danny Huff

[This message was edited by Danny Huff on December 11, 2002 at 14:14.]

[dalel]

The body seems a bit heavy. The mantis' I've seen have much longer and thinner bodies.


Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
- Lewis Carroll

[jens g.r. benthien]

good model!

Dale,

as far as I know there are more than 1000 different subcategories of these nice animals on this planet, so who can tell which one we are currently looking at?

;-}

jens

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[gidgit]

Hey Danny, this is fine looking... StudioMax eh... right on... [thumbs up] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[Gary David Bouton]

Verrry Nice, Danny!

Now, how's about posing it for the camera?

(Grin and duck)


My Best,
Gare

[Dan Huff]

Well, he's mostly textured, STILL not "posed" [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] for the camera yet. More texture tweaking, lighting and rendering to be done. Any suggestions, criticisms would be appreciated!

Danny Huff

[Gary David Bouton]

Danny--

Love the texture!


When you get around to posing him (errr, IT), I learned this a while ago and although it seems like "common sense", as Samuel Clemens wrote, "Common Sense is neither."

We are stereoscopic beings, and therefore, most of the time, cannot help but look at stuff in 3 point perspective, as this diagram shows. As a rule (which I break sometimes, yeah, yeah) I strive for a camera angle that is:

1) as dimensional as possible, that
2.)doesn't make the image look fake.

I would think that another insect's point of view would provide you with 3D perspective. That, or a human looking dowwn at it. That or, putting a bell glass jar around it, and pretending it's at eye level being looked at by a sadistic kid.


My Best,
Gare

[Dan Huff]

Thanks one and all for the compliments. Good advice, Gare! I'll do my best with it. I still haven't decided how I'm going to present it, backgrounds, lighting, and the like, but I want to show off as much of the insect as possible, especially the tail section, front legs, and head. Kinda hard to do with one pic.

Here's a close-up of a little detail.


Danny Huff

[s.winders]

Nice work Danny [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]


I think Garys idea of a glass jar is very cool [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] .For your color maps etc find as much reference material as you can on Mantis.

I find with organic models the thing that usually makes or breaks your realism is your diffusion map.


Stu.

[Steve Newport]

I really wish I had some 3d app.'s at my disposal!! It must be a lot of fun..... and hard work, but fun nonetheless! Nice job
agreed, Ohio weather sux right now!

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