This is a white shark (now with body).

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hi. This is a link to a wip page, about a Great White Shark I am working now, to be put in my ocean (that you can see in its thread somewhere on elysiun, named “this is an ocean”).
I am focusing mainly on texturing, since this is my most complex uv texturing right now. The model is anatomically correct.

EDIT :
i added the body model (with closed jaws); texturized version will come soon; finished scene will be posted on Finished Works

EDIT :
i added an image ; it’s at 60% of completeness now; tell me what ya think

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/comandancia.zapatista/pagina_carcharodon.html

Some theet are texturized, some not. More and better images will follow soon.

el sup (subcom_antonio on irc)
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Wauw :o
looks very realistic
only remark would be the teeth, though I can’t quite put my finger to it, something about the reflection and ‘ribbons’ to the side of the texture bugs me
nice work, though

crimson13

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Looks awesome. You should get tuhopuu for doing the fins. the knife tool would be perfect.

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Nice start :slight_smile:

Gums are maybe too red (unless he has just eaten…) and teeth to ‘shiny’ but the outher texture is very nice!

Stefano

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s68 : well the image will be a gore one, so i need the gums really red :stuck_out_tongue:

and about the specularity, i didnt do specular and normal mapping, but only the diffuse one

the texturing is made in gimp apart from some in-blender texture painting (i am using the shark to learn some intruments i never used)

thanks for thre replies :slight_smile:

el sup (subcom_antonio on irc)
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With that red of gums, I’d like to see some blood on the teeth.

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Looking superb so far, the pose is just right. Are you planning on using Booleans to create the gills?

Sonix.

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sonix : mmm i never used booleans in such a contest… i guess i will just model them by hand, like for the rest if the face

besode that, i had an idea for an image using the head of the shark, and i am trying to finish it

the problem with this shark is that once in the water, everything will look made of blue gradients, and the blood will be waved away :frowning:

el sup
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I won’t use booleans in this case.

Your shark is clearly a Subsurfed mesh, and booleans works like *#@%&£ on a Subsurfed mesh, they create triangles, bad triangles, even leave some seam open… definitely ugly.

Stefano

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yeah the head is a sds, though i freezed it for the rendering;

akira kurosawa once said that “the point of view over your scene is a moral matter”, and well it’s true… it’s since yesterday that i try to decide for a point of view for this little “crossover scene” i am doing for the shark… bah

thanks for the replies

el sup
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