Making of the weasel

first of all i created a load of planes along the body of the weasel then shaped the egdes of those planes to match the weasel. then i connected the edges in places where i needed to extrude and add depth. i left a hole so that i could extrude the inner edges and make an arm, then bring out the left side to make the chest. then use the symmetry tool to connect it together. making sure my vertices were on the x axis at 0.025 so that when i activated the auto weld on the symmetry tool @ 0.1 the x axis would merge together to form a complete weasel



with the feet i pulled down some edges and left some polygons on the inside of the foot to make a body and have the feet on the outside.



here is how i modelled the face, extruding the edges outward to match a real weasels face as much as possible.




my finished head, where there are eye bulges i used the chamfer tool early to make eye sockets but instead i extruded them outwards so that i could just roll over a black textured dot when shrink wrapping. didnt work out that way though so i put in 2 spheres and gave them noise maps to give an animal eye looking effect.




here is the underlying texture i used to put the base for the hair and fur modifier




here it is being applied using shrink wrap



then i applied hair and fur modifier and made some grass using a plane and hair and fur modifier then i put in a tree background. used photoshop to get the RGB of the grass and matched it with the grass in the scene. then i trimmed the hair added made it a little thicker for realism.

end result:



fur is incredibly hard to do and in hind sight maybe not the best of ideas but im happy with my efforts.

weasel moodboard

Weasel !!!!!!!!!!!!!

for my third and final stamp i will be doing a weasel. i have chosen a weasel because of the history me and a close group of friends share with the word as it was a joke we played throughout one of the best holidays we've ever had, so i thought why not do it? i will be doing a weasel with a hair and fur modifier and will put it standing up in a natural habitat. Weasels vary in length from twelve to forty-five centimeters long (six to seventeen inches), and usually have a dark brown upper coat but i will be making mine with more of a ginger coat

Shark model

This was the start of my shark



what i did was i got a very basic image of a tiger shark and used it to shape it. i got a plane and extruded it across the shark leaving vertices to push down and make the basic body shape. i then connected the edges using the connect tool to make some lines for depth. Then i pulled those lines out towards view and altered them to give the shark a realistic look.



i then extruded the parts of the shark where they had fins and at the tail and connected the edges to make lines to add depth to the tails. i then added the turbo smooth modifier to give it as much realism as possible.



lastly i used UVW unwrap to texture it. i had to figure out where all the broken pieces went and color it accordingly using photoshop. it looks something like this:



and this is the end result:



with the sand texture i used a box and gave it 60 length and width segments and added a noise modifier to give it a bumpy sea floor look. i then used the basic sand texture that 3ds max has in its standard libraries then i got a light and added a caustic filter which is also in the standard light library of 3ds max.

Preperation for second stamp

the second stamp iam going to is going to contain a tiger shark in an underwater scene. tiger sharks can grow up to 4 meteres and weigh upto 1,400 lb. it eats fish seals birds smaller sharks squids turtles and dolphins. the stripes on a tiger shark fade with age so i'll be doing a rather young tiger shark :)

Tiger shark moodboard

sharky wharkies :)

spider finished

this is my finished spider with a nice background some sun imitating lighting and a nice rock for him to play with lol :P

this is definately the worst of the 3 i still have a texture to add to my weasel but they will be up shortly.

spider making

With the spider i started with the body which was the back end, a sphere and the mid-drif, which i used a cylinder and the head i used a cylinder. I distorted these 3 shapes to make them solifugae-like then i moved onto the legs and antennae.

with the legs this is how i did them



first i started with a cylinder and put it into proportion





then started extruding the end polygons and making them smaller and then welding the.

tip to give it a spider like leg

solifugae moodboard

this is some work i have done on the solifugae so far. Tt is not complete, i have to make fangs and make a texture for the legs body and face then apply them. there are some flaws in the modelling techniques i have used like overlapping polygons etc but it is my first stamp and i need to get on with the other 2. if i have time i will remake this one.

here it is so far:


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Sketch

here is a sketch i had done last week for my solifugae. i had to take a picture on my blackberry (no flash and 3MP) so it is not very good quality.

Preperation for first stamp

For my first 3D stamp I am going to do a solifugae which is an order of the arachnida family and is nicknamed by the locals 'Camel Spider'. it has 8 legs but isn't technically a spider although is somewhat very close to it. the name solifugae is latin for the ones who flee from the sun. it has 2 very large antennae-like pedipalps which extrude from the head and look like an extra pair of legs. they are used for climbing and capturing flying prey. the solifugae have 2 very small legs which are used for feeling and sensing (like antennae) and the other 6 legs are used for running. I have done a sketch of a spider and have plenty of reference images and will be modelling and texturing it ready to show on friday. i'll upload the sketch once i can take a picture of it.

My Late Leaf.

Sprialol

a 3ds max wine glass

*slurp* more lathe tool

Chess piece

Lathe tool = very handy.

now i have to learn illustrator..........

My Banana

Outta 10?

Biodiversity Mood Board

Just a collaboration of animals plants and a few funny ones in there i thought would give more viewing pleasure :) enjoy

The Brief

I think that three 3D stamps on the varied species of the planet earth will be incredibly interesting and a fun thing to do. Firstly because 3ds max is an incredible tool and i find it very fun and easy to use, and with the very big topic that is biodiversity it will be interesting because there are a great many things that one can do a 3D stamp about.