Sharky

[Dark Bob]

I needed something to do so I browsed the tutorials here at 3D total. I decided to do the Sharky tutorial by Nikola Drincic, only catch I use Maya so I had had to ajust some things.
enjoy

http://www.jupiter-project.com/Donald/sharky2.jpg
http://www.jupiter-project.com/Donald/screens.jpg

2269 polys and one 1024x1024 texture.

[Sonix]

Cool, Dark Bob. :D

You might want to increase the Sub-surf/Meshsmooth a tad though, there seem to be a few sharp edges.

I don't know the name of this function in Maya I'm afraid.

Sonix.

[nikola]

Hi Dark Bob,

nice going. About the shark, a little bit more work and it will look great. Like Sonix sad try to increase smoothnes of model... And maybe to make a tail a little bit smaller, but thats up to you.

For the backgroud, I see no shadows so just use solid white color. You do not need that 90 degrees bend plane. It just increase render time.

all the best
Nikola Drincic

[Dark Bob]

I have a little animation worked up in my head so he will be getting some more faces.

The bended plane in the render is a reflect surface for a GI file I have. I can get the same results with Mental Ray GI but this one renders faster. I think it took all of 60 seconds to get that render out.

thanks for the coments.