I've never made a dinosaur before, but I want one to test out my dinosaur plate materials on.

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great start!

I'm sure this will look less like a lab rat when I'm done with it.

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Happy to see you.

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Nice test, but that face does NOT look happy to see me! More like he's about to lunge!

I know what you mean Gerry!. Nice test Robert

Steve

This may explain why the stray ankylosauri are so hard to place at the animal adoption center.

Apparently these things were elephant-sized so they probably didn't do much lunging. Herbivorous, of course; they might smash you but they wouldn't actually eat you.

jeeze talk about a spline heavy model
lol!
nice work so far!
btw, you know Im kidding about the splineheavy thing....

adding the little toesies.

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Fun fact: No Ankylosaurus skeleton unearthed so far has included the feet. Which means i can make them any way I want them.

That's because they did not have feet.
they slithered on their bellies.

I can't wait to see it finished.

Looks great so far, Robert!

Remember the "Ten-minute Man" tutorial?

A ten-minute dinosaur would be a cool demo of A:M. I think with practice this could be done in 10 minutes.

Looking good...keep posting progress, please!

I love seing these progress shots ,excellant stuff Robert.Don't remember the 10 minute man though

tell that to the blokes who get chomped on by the hippo-a saurous!

The thought that I had with your test was happy puppy with that wagging tail...didn't go with the cranky look on the face

Okay, he may be an herbivore but I'm steering clear of the tail AND the toesies thank you very much!

A small Ankylo-update. Feet finished and tweaks all around.

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I'll experiment with rigging him next.

He looks good. I would be surprised if you don't have to add a spline or two in the front leg. I am interested to see how those hooks work on his back hip too.

looks good
nice economy of splines

Nice dino. I'm surprised you were able to hook into the 5 point patch.

Very economical use of splines, Robert. I'm thinking the front limbs might need another spline ring or two...depending on how much they will bend.

Thanks.

Yes, it's as thin as I can make. I want the difference between the raw state and the textured product will be as dramatic as possible and, of course, to simplify CP weighting.

One advantage of material texturing I envision is that you can change your splineage later and it won't seriously break materials like decals would be .




It works if you make the five-point patch first. If the hook is already attached, the five-point button will never enable.

A test with some simple CP weighting

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Great work on the cp weights

Very nice

Looks great, Robert!

Smooooooooooooooth!

Here's a test with a quick install of TSM2 quadruped. This is all hard attached CPs, no CP weighting yet.

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It turns out it's hard to animate a large, slow-moving beast to not look floaty.

ooooo the suspense! the horror! Women and children and small pets first!

funnnnneeeee!!!!!!

You are an inspiration, Robert! He looks real already!

Thats good ,nice bit of suspence music and the wighting in the above one is very nice Robert

Nice motion Robcat
More! More!

Nice!

Rob, the low patch modeling on this is awesome! I never would have thought of ending a hook on a 5 point patch like that, but it looks like it works great! This is the kind of modeling I've been striving towards lately, it's just so much easier to rig.

One small crit: The point just above his front shoulder looks like it should be weighted to the shoulder bone by maybe 5-10 %, to avoid that little bit of a crease when he crouches.

I have to type this since I'm speechless!

this is like the best textbook low patch count model I'v seen!
really cool!

Inspirational in so many ways.
Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Music... and quickly too!

Looking great!

Really terrific work. All I can say is, GROOooaaaaarrrrr!

Very smooth animation, and nice splining

That's a great example of low patch modelling, Robert, and the motion is good too. I avoid hooks, unless I can hide them somewhere discrete, but that seems to be working alright.

Thank you for your enthusiasm!

I guess I wasn't quite accurate when I said I hadn't done a dinosaur before. I did do a T-rex 21 years ago for a Filmmaking 101 class.




That dinosaur also had no CP weighting. CP weighting didn't exist in 1989. At least, not in "Turbo Silver" on the AMIGA it didn't.

Very nice modeling! Good tip on hooking into the 5 point, and it looks smooth.

Great movement, Robert! Very cool!

I've always avoided the hook/5-point patch, too, but I thought I heard somewhere that the 5-pointer wouldn't close if there was a hook attached to it.

Nice to know differently!

Like it was mentioned earlier, if you create the 5 point patch first, then apply the hook it works..if for any reason you have to re-do the 5 point patch, you have to break the hook, do the 5 pointer, then re-apply the hook.. Found that out quite by accident whilst breaking all the rules from splinig 101!

If you have your red-blue glasses handy here's a Stereoscopic version of that test with special 3D motion

Hint: Full screen it.

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oh thats a good one, when he swung his head back again I thought he was going to hit me in the face and them pillars look far away

Nice !

(I always have to experiment as to which eye should be red/blue - this time it was that left eye red looked best to me - true for you?)

man i need to learn how to do organic modeling some day....
and my glasses didnt work, wrong type

Yea mines left eye red aswell ,didn't realise you could get differant ones