Saturday, February 6, 2010

Lobphant


A rerendering of my older hybrid design. (Clickie for bigger)

I now call it a Lobphant. I think it's more punchy that way >>

Anyway, still experimenting with different methods of shading and rendering. Let me know what you think I can improve on!

This time around I focused on making sure the shading conformed to the texture base instead of relying on the texture itself to do that. Also, for this piece I did away with the "Lightest" layer, which I used to get the bright white specular effect on some of my other pieces. I didn't think it would work out well with the textures.

Anyway, enjoy!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

i forget, why does the elephant have dinosaur legs?

Ben said...

The project was a combination of a crustacean, a mammal, and a prehistoric reptile. Dinosaur, reptile, whatever, I thought it looked cool :D

D'N'J said...

haha, that's very helpful, anonymous.

and i had forgotten there was supposed to be dinosaur in the project. i don't like it's little front legs. they remind me of bugs. i hate bugs. :D