Saturday, July 24, 2010

Smiley

Who's your dentist?
This is a WIP shot of the last major "character" of the project. It may end up having dozens of cousins, uncles, etc., but he will be the main attraction. It is loosely based on my memories of other artists' depictions of actual pterosaurs. So I guess that makes him (her?) authentic!
Sinopterus dongi(What, you don't see the resemblance?) Image via Wikipedia

I did decide to go with a bold red color scheme for this one. It will have quite a bit more color once I do some textures for it. But that probably won't come for a while. I hate making textures, and sometimes they make animating less responsive, so I may wait a loooong time before I do them. Or if I get inspired, they may come sooner! I still have some more work to do for this. I see a medium-large crest in his future...


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2 comments:

j. w. bjerk said...

Oooh, ooh, I wanna texture a pterasaur!

Also you might find this animated skeletal pterasaur useful:
http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/08/pterosaur-takeoff-.html


Your second one looks more or less like one of these buggers:
http://archosaurmusings.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/img_9301.jpg


Isn't this one cute:
http://archosaurmusings.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/rey_pterodactylus.jpg

animattor said...

I thought you might want to.I need to play around some more before I start texturing. I haven't decided how complicated I want the art style to be.

I just discovered a new shading trick that may help with a more stylized rendering style. But I need to play with it some more first.

Thaks for the links, too. I guess other artists have even more demented imaginations than me!