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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Lazy Susan's, Flesh, and More!

Here is a streaming video test (231 KB) of a turntable or "lazy susan" render of Inch WITHOUT textures (more on that soon)...

..... Click here for a test render of Inch.

Now, currently my target pigment has been that of a pee-pod from the local supermarket, however, after tons of research I am tossing around the idea of Inch having more of a flesh tone look rather than the ol' "green worm" cliche' (see below for comparison)...

..... Click here for a surface comparison.

2 Comments:

Smerity said...

Nice, it's coming together well =)

About the pigments, well, my humble opinion is that the green automatically seems more organic (green is usually associated with life) and that a cliche only really applies if the same idea has been almost compltely duplicated (I haven't seen any incredibly cool 3D animated green worms, have you?)

Artistic license comes well before the thoughts of possible cliches =) If it looks good, do it, even if others may have done it before you (and remember, the others before you probably had an unbiased choice on the best possible result, and as such chose what looked best).

Also, apart from the green looking a little more organic, the flesh tone (viewed in my eyes mind you, and I'm partially crazy), almost looked like ET. The model's obviously quite different, but when it was first loading (modem here, I could see the image scroll down as it loads =P) the head reminded me of ET...

Anyway, that's my babble =)

5:08 AM  
Landis Fields said...

Good point. I will continue to move forward with the other aspects of the skin, running tests with both versions until I make up my mind. Thank you very much for the constructive feedback, I really appreciate it.

1:59 PM  

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