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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: KillMeNow on August 16, 2002, 12:41:08 pm

Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: KillMeNow on August 16, 2002, 12:41:08 pm
for those intersted i'm makinga  dragon - some wip pics =) obviously still needs a head thinking on this now - dont know quite waht to go for a chinesse dargon or a dinosaur style or what suggestions?

(http://www.killmenow.barrysworld.net/images/dragon.jpg)

and abit further on

(http://www.killmenow.barrysworld.net/images/dragon2.jpg)

if venom insists :wtf:  i have got saves going back through its contruction :wtf:
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Tiara on August 16, 2002, 12:45:29 pm
oooooohhhh Decapitated!

*hugs axe*

:D
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Styxx on August 16, 2002, 12:46:55 pm
The head! What did you do to the head!?! :D

Nice work, by the way. What did you use? FFDs, metaobjects? :)
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Styxx on August 16, 2002, 12:47:56 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Tiara
*hugs axe*


We shouldn't have given her that title... :D :p
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Tiara on August 16, 2002, 12:48:59 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


We shouldn't have given her that title... :D :p


;)

But the the dragon looks cool! Maybe I should give the head back... :p
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Thorn on August 16, 2002, 12:50:46 pm
must be one god awful huge axe.....
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: an0n on August 16, 2002, 01:13:21 pm
Reign Of Fire 0wnz j00!

You planning on giving it arms?
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: KillMeNow on August 16, 2002, 01:18:52 pm
yup arms are next if i can figure out where to put them =( lack of fore thought in modeling is always bad idea =( but i'll squeeze them in somewhere
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Tiara on August 16, 2002, 01:18:53 pm
It looks like a chicken with dragon wings now... :lol:
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: vadar_1 on August 16, 2002, 01:20:02 pm
The wings look more like bat wings... but having no hands-on experience with dragons... I cant be sure.
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: an0n on August 16, 2002, 01:25:55 pm
The wings should be the forward bent kinda as opposed to the trailing kind. And depending on what kind of dragon you want it to be the body might do with being a little lighter/thinner. There's the Reign of Fire kinda dragons that are like snakes in the sky, and there are the Dragonheart kinda dragons like Draco who're like lions in the sky.
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: KillMeNow on August 16, 2002, 01:59:06 pm
tis a lion in the sky =) or a t-rex in teh sky =) i've got the arm done now so looks alot better with that less like a chicken =) as for the wings  =) well hopefully if i can work out a rig that will let the wings defrom properly =) the wings can be position anyway i want them =) for now think of him ina  dive =) wings are about right for that
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Redfang on August 16, 2002, 02:10:51 pm
Woa, it's really good. :eek2::yes:
 
I like dragons. :p But those Chinese dragons look strange...
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Ace on August 16, 2002, 02:22:51 pm
The wings look nice and bat like, but the body is definately a chicken. Of course to look believable the body should look like an avian creature, but I'd streamline it to look more like a bird of prey so that it seems more reasonable for flying.

Magical or not, it should look like it can fly on it's own power ;)
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: KillMeNow on August 16, 2002, 03:44:20 pm
update =)

(http://www.killmenow.barrysworld.net/images/dragon3.jpg)
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Sheepy on August 16, 2002, 05:53:05 pm
ATACK OF THE KILLA GIANT SWALLOWS, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: KillMeNow on August 17, 2002, 04:30:18 am
(http://www.killmenow.barrysworld.net/images/dragon5.jpg)

getting there slowly - some more facial ridges to add might defalre the nostrils abit  - cant descide between ears and horns yet - i think ears though but your input is welcome
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: RandomTiger on August 17, 2002, 05:15:12 am
Cool!

Suddenly Im getting some really wierd ideas about a dragon mod for FS.
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Nico on August 17, 2002, 05:24:02 am
it's cool! but now it's my time to say it looks cute :D
front view is ok, but you want to reshape the head in side and top view, coz even horns won't help you :) ( that said, from side view, the thing is definitively too short, looks like it just crashed in a wall "toon style" )
As for the shape, for realism, people shouldn't forget the bat wing "structure" is made from the bat fingers, and so all the "sticks" should all come from the hand ;)
Dragon with ears? they're reptiles, reptiles have no ears save in walt disney movies :p
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Sandwich on August 17, 2002, 05:25:12 am
KSSSHHHTTT "This is Draco Flight 714 requesting landing clearance, over. KSSSHTTT ;)

Is that gonna be wEvil in UT's movie script?? :p

Or are you gonna do an uber-cool cellshading render of it? ;7
Title: W.I.P Dragon (the mythical kind not shivan)
Post by: Kitsune on August 17, 2002, 10:35:01 am
Hmm, ears good.
Short body, Bad...

Thin and Elongate the body out, from these side views it looks like his hips are too close to his shoulders.

The wing membrane should stop at the rump on a longer body type, however with a truncated body like you've done it seems to be reasonable.

*tries to find the skeletal structure image someone did of the typical WESTERN style dragon.*
And there's no way you could make that into an Eastern dragon as they don't have wings.  They fly via innate magics and such, using the wind, whatever.  (They were depicted as agents of the gods and elements and as such didn't have neeed for any mundane flying purposes.

The collapsable dragon wing structure has always been my preference (like dragonheart).