Dino-sorted.

As of last post, I've finished my little speed-run theropod dinosaur Maya business.
We left off with this:
_{A partially unwrapped mess of a creature.}

So let the UV fun-wrapping begin.

I started with the main parts of the creature: The head and top/bottom halves of the body. The different colours show the separate UV bits. It just helps me see which faces I've already projected, so I don't accidently mess things up.


_{Such beautiful plumage}

All of the parts have been separated out, but they still give the texture too much distortion, although you can't see here.
_{It's like a really old-timey jester}

The super fun process of grabbing the UV points and dragging them into place. I cheated a bit and overlapped the legs and arms, which saves texture space. However, I made this theropod as economical as possible, so I tried to pretend I was making it for a crappy game.
_{Much better. All he needs now is a yellow corduroy tophat.}

Then I added the texture.
_{Don't use alpha in your textures, kids. I causes all kinds of bizarre tomfoolery.}

And FINISHED. Isn't it cute.
_derp

I'll probably rig it next.
(Oh, and give it some teeth.)

I also did this quick sketch of a chunky Fentil vertebrate.
_{the Blogger photo uploader was being particularly irritating today.}

Those little things around its feet are hoppers; larger cousins of skippers. They are fleeing to the safety of their nest within the tile-top lattice.

I also recently found This Guy on DeviantArt and I love the way he draws mechanical things.





















I need to practice my machines.