[3D] WIP snail shell texture - first test

Well the texture still needs some cleaning up , also the test renders are just quickly created shaders. Nothing is final, yet.


Here the snail shell texture and bump map created with Photoshop:




This is just a plain blinn shader:



Here just a quickly made SSS shader:



Well still got lots to do , especially on the snail itself.

[3D] snail 3d model at 3dvia

Just uploaded the WIP snail model at 3dvia. Textures and details still have to be created.

Requires the 3dvia browser plugin to view it in 3D.




Direct link

[GRAPHICS] Twitter logo design

Just signed up to twitter and thought I could create a twitter button for my blog. I used the "Ruffles" bird character and used it as the twitter bird, posing it onto the twitter font.

my twitter site is at https://twitter.com/animore , coulndt use animationandmore, since twitter only allows a certain amount of characters.

[UV] UV layout for the snail character

Just created the UV layout for the snail character. Now i can start with creating the textures , bump maps etc.

The snail with the UV layout texture:



snail UV layout:


snail house UV layout:

[3D] Snail polygon model WIP - the body & face

Just finished the body and face for the snail character. Obviously its anatomically not correct, but I need the mouth so i can do some lip syncing.

Now I need to start developing the UV layout. Then follows texturing and rigging.
For the textures I will also create a bump map for the details as well as a specular map.

The snail. I will later add a tongue, which is necessary for my next animation:



Snail wireframe, no smoothing:


Mouth detail:

[3D] Snail character - the shell ( WIP )

Cureently working on a snail character. Modeled the shell today. Its still not finished, the polygon topology has to be cleaned up a bit.

Used Maya and extruded along a curve, however the result was very unpredictable, so it took some time till I was happy with the result. It is one whole mesh now, no polygons intersecting each other.

The mesh:


Side view, still needs to be updated:


Wireframe:


Poly smooth:

[VIDEO] Some idle animation and a walk cycle

Just a walk cycle and and 2 idle animations:

SD stream (faster loading time):


External HD links:

HD stream @ vimeo

HD stream @ Exposureroom

HD stream @ HDshare

HD stream @ youtube

HD stream @ dailymotion


Sound effects by freesound

[INFO] Back to normal

OK, everything works fine now. :)