Glass Turtle +blend file

Model now uploaded to here; http://www.4shared.com/dir/1975599/b64e9ddb/Blender.html
Licence; Creative commons; If there is a need to use this for comercial use; ask me…

Glass Turtle, material is glass because the only reference material I used was a model made of wood. This is purely to test my modelling skills.

Used Blender 2.42 on Suse professional 9.3
Rendering time 1 hour 30 minutes at resolution of 1600 by 1200

Will have a go at uv mapping it and texturising it as a real turtle at a later date and will post a new thread for that later in WIP forum…

Image can be found at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48064286/

Hope you like it!

That looks really good. Nice texture to go with that mesh - the simple, smooth shape worked really well as glass.

I worked off a wooden turtle that was in front of me, I was wondering, the scales were like a jigsaw, so should I use the displacement modifier to make the indents required when I make this a wooden turtle like the one in front of me, or could I UV map it then use the normal texture chanle to recieve the desired effect?

Will submit a WIP thread for wooden turtle, but atm I’m on school computers without blender…:frowning:

hey i really like that design of a turtle. I was wondering if you’d mind if I used it to try and make out of glass (I’m a glass artist out in the real world). also if you have the blender file or another render to share that’d be awesome…Ireally like thesmoothness ofthe lines and thesimplicity. you’ve given me some great fodder for my glass slot in the morning.

Wow, anyway I will upload the blend file then for anybody to use, If anybody would be kind enough to rig it, it would be nice…
Send me a picture to what you end up with.
(will have to send tomorrow)

now with blend file…look at top of thread.

Perhaps you would enjoy a portable version? I haven’t tested this one personally, i just googled for it, but I’ve used another version before and it works fine, depending on the PC I use it on. Anyhow, it is stored on a flash drive and runs from there (which I suppose you could do with the original blender, but anyhow, I’m rambling.)

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Graphics/Windows-Portable-Applications-Blender-Portable.shtml

Cheers!