Dec 2007 - Swimming Dinosaur

[Lynette-3dt]

Please read the Instructions Guidelines and FAQ's for this challenge first.

Okay, so here we go with this month's challenge, which is designed to be fun, creative and not too intensive, whilst giving best entrants prizes and great exposure in 3DCreative Magazine.

This month we have chosen SWIMMING DINOSAURS! (Although there's technically no such thing; dinosaurs apparently lived on land only. If we want to be picky we should really call them "Plesiosaurs" or "Ichthyosaurs", but let's just call them "swimming dinosaurs" for the sake of this competition and to keep things nice and simple!)


©iStockphoto.com/Maartje van Caspel

Here are a selection of Images to give you some good references.

swimming dinosaur 01
swimming dinosaur 02
swimming dinosaur 03
swimming dinosaur 04
swimming dinosaur 05
swimming dinosaur 06
swimming dinosaur 07
swimming dinosaur 08
swimming dinosaur 09
swimming dinosaur 10
swimming dinosaur 11
swimming dinosaur 12
swimming dinosaur 13
swimming dinosaur 14
swimming dinosaur 15
swimming dinosaur 16
swimming dinosaur 17
swimming dinosaur 18

Please don't start new threads: all design sketches, WIPs and feedback must go in this thread only; however questions should go in the following thread: Guidelines and FAQ's

Final Images go in the Voting thread, which will be created later in the month ready for Voting.

Have fun! There are some pretty cool images on the Net for this subject, so enjoy your explorations! Should be a fun one this month! Enjoy!!

[grafixsuz]

O.k. well I think I will give this one a try. Here is a quick concept sketch that I think will work.


I will try and get this worked out on time.

p.s. I found a good reference site where you can find details on most species.
http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/U...a/220.000.html

Just scroll down to the bottom and search through the navigation to go through the various species and their details.

Here is a quick rough model. I think I will have to change it to get it to look more interesting and friendly, but it is a start.



Re designed head...



And a quick render. This render is crap by the way. Just a quick test



Comments welcome

I am using Blender 2.45
windows XPPro
2.4GHz Pentium 4
1GB Ram
Nvidia fx5200

[raiden1983]

nice start...and i see that you use Blender(i use blender too).....i think i will start in this challeng...
About your start i think it is okey...somethin is wrong with his tail but i don't know what...it looks litle strange....

[BenniKImmel]

I actually got a nice idea if I can get it drawn right, good luck everyone!

[grafixsuz]

Yeah, I like using blender, though I also use XSI and silo, I like to support the OS project, as it gave me my first taste of 3D. I am hopeless at the moment though So I am hoping that I can improve my skills with this project, such as texturing, posing and rendering, tasks I usually give to XSI for the ease of use, but good place to start.

I have decided to change the head of this character as he looks a little too fierce where should be more placid.

Thanks raiden1983. Yes his tail is also not anatomically correct, as with the head, will get looked at.

[cmarcus]

Hello everybody.

My concept sketch....


I use 3dsmax for my final image.


Good work "graphixsuz"....

[raiden1983]

Ok I found my favorit dinosaur.
I present you ICHTHYOSAURUS.
He will be live in little aquarium lying on the table....
In aquarium i put little castle and seaweeds...
I hope i can do this....
When the challeng is over??

[Aerics]

I want to give it a try.
Here is my quick sketch.

I hope you like it.

[Warin-3DT]

Originally Posted by raiden1983

Ok I found my favorit dinosaur.
I present you ICHTHYOSAURUS.
He will be live in little aquarium lying on the table....
In aquarium i put little castle and seaweeds...
I hope i can do this....
When the challeng is over??

Nice start!! good luck with your entry!

The time for showing your WIP, stages, etc will be ended at the end of the month, 31Dec 07. Then you will have another week (1-8th Jan08) to show your final image and then voting time will start from 8th-15 Jan.

Good luck!
Warin -3dt

[Gune]

ok, here are my first scetch and model steps ...
hope you like it!



next steps coming soon...

[Trex2001]

Here's my take at it

[cmarcus]

Yep Yep.......my dinosaur with "Bones" for a future animation....Why not.

Good Luck Everybody



Excuse for my english

[TonyClifton]

...I was wondering what they did during the ice age...

[evolution]

Hey guys great starts so far. I think I'll join this one as soon as my exams are over this week. I'll have a concept up soon, I'm thinking along the lines something of a duck type dinosaur almost like ducky from land before time but more duck like.....

[cmarcus]

Hello.....first render...



Soon in the background,on the left my "dino"....